Trivia Bits 08 January

 

• The first name of the children’s author and illustrator Dr Suess is Theodor.
• From 1982 – 1987, English singer Steven Peter Morrissey fronted the band The Smiths.
• In Australia, the first powered flight was made by Harry Houdini in 1910 in a Voisin aeroplane at Digger’s Rest, Victoria.
• Edward Smith was the Captain of the ill fated liner Titanic.
• The inaugural Tour Down Under in Adelaide South Australia in 1999 was won by Stuart O’Grady.
• Mount Ossa is the highest peak in the Australian state of Tasmania.
• The last American President to serve a single term was George H. W. Bush.
• The lead role of Roy Neary in Close Encounters of a Third Kind was played by Richard Dreyfuss.
• The world’s largest shark is the whale shark.
• With first names of Stephanus Johannes Paulus but better known by the popular name of Oom Paul Kruger as President of the Transvaal after whom a national park is named.