Trivia Bits 06 January

 

• If someone describes another as vociferant, they are being described as being noisy.
• Each of the three sessions of play in Ice Hockey are known as a period.
• At the signing of the Declaration of American Independence, Benjamin Franklin said “We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately”.
• Martin Freeman plays the role of Bilbo Baggins in the 2012 movie The Hobbit.
• The US TV comedy series Cheers ran for 11 years – 1982 - 1993.
• The world’s first heart transplant in 1967 was performed by Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon.
• The Japanese word wagyu means cow.
• The letter “E” occurs once in a minute, twice in a week and once in a year!
• In Chinese Checkers, players race pieces to the opposite corner of a hexagon.
• Beantown is the nickname for the US city Boston.