Thursday, January 17, 2013

Trivia Bits 17 January

 

  • The musical instrument ocarina is a member of the woodwind group.
  • The part of the eye that expands and contracts dependant on the amount of light entering it is the pupil.
  • Queen Elizabeth’s mother, affectionately known as the Queen Mother, once jokingly gave as a reason for living to be 100 that she could then receive a telegram from the Queen.
  • The capital of the European country of Croatia is Zagreb.
  • The white-fronted chat is a type of bird found widely in Australia.
  • The souvlaki originated in the country of Greece being a popular Greek fast food consisting of small pieces of meat and sometimes vegetables grilled on a skewer.
  • A female rabbit is known as a doe.
  • A pinot grigio is a white wine and is a clone of Pinot gris grown in Italy. The word pinot, which comes from the word meaning "pine cone" in French, could have been given to it because the grapes grow in small pine cone-shaped clusters.
  • When referring to years, the abbreviation AD stands for Anno Domino - Anno Domini (AD or A.D.) with the Julian and Gregorian calendars. This calendar era is based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus of Nazareth, with AD counting years after the start of this epoch.
  • Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Phillip are both great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.

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