Saturday, January 5, 2013

Trivia Bits 05 January

 

  • Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist in the well known novel by Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice.
  • The secure seedbank called the Global Seed Vault is sited on the isle of Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway.
  • Drunkorexia is the coined term for the practice of young women starving themselves so that they can drink alcohol in the belief that they will not gain weight.
  • When water freezes it expands.
  • Ray Lawler wrote the Australian play The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll which was first performed at the Union Theatre in Melbourne, Australia, on 28 November 1955.
  • The common name for dihydrogen monoxide is water.
  • The American cartoonist who authored the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes was Bill Watterson.
  • Angela Lansbury played mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in the TV Series Murder She Wrote.
  • Middle Eastern Lake Tiberas is better known by the Sea of Galilee.
  • The official Scottish title for Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge is The Countess of Strathearn.

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