Trivia Bits 12 January

 

• The word yahoo first appeared in the book Gulliver’s Travel by Jonathan Swift.
• In law, a legal notice lodges with a court or an authority to suspend certain actions until the notifier is given a hearing is called a caveat.
• A crash or herd is the collective name for a group of rhinos.
• A lace anniversary is the celebration of thirteen years of marriage.
• There are 4 oarsmen that row a surfboat in competition.
• Manila, Philippines, was founded by Spanish conquistador Miguel Lopez de Legazpi in 1571 and became the administrative centre of the Spanish colony named after King Philip II of Spain.
• The name of the land-lady Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s in Doyle’s Sherlock’s series is Mrs Hudson.
• Dame Edna Everage calls the Australian city of Melbourne home.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a composer in the music epoc known as the Classical Era.
• Wilma Flintstone’s maiden name was Slaghoople.