Friday, January 11, 2013

Trivia Bits 11 January

 

  • The brad Coco Cola was first sold it Atlanta Georgia 1886.
  • A baby echidna is called a puggle.
  • Ethan and Joel Coen wrote the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski starring Jeff Bridges.
  • The quetzal is the basic monetary unit of Guatemala.
  • Suet is raw beef or mutton fat.
  • Eurystheus, King of Mycnae imposed the 12 labours on Hercules.
  • The word robot comes from the Czech word robotnik which means forced labour.
  • The feminine personification of Great Britain is Britannia.
  • Onondaga Lake is named after the Iroquois tribes that lived nearby in Central New York State – the lake now being one of the most polluted in the USA.
  • The Coptic Alphabet is a variation of the Greek Alphabet.

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