Trivia Bits 24 January

 

• If you had an attractive thewy physique you would be muscular.
• Lucy is a Peanuts character who dispenses psychiatric advice from a lemonade stand for only five cents.
• The largest lakes in Australia include Lake Eyre (9500km2), Lake Torrens (5900km2) and Lake Gairdner (4300km2) which are all in South Australia.
• Philip Pira is the lead character in Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations first published in serial form in Dickens' weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.
• The autobiography A Long Way to Freedom is based on the life of the great political leader Nelson Mandela.
• Physicians take the Hippocratic Oath swearing to practice medicine ethically and honestly. It is widely believed to have been written either by Hippocrates, often regarded as the father of western medicine, or by one of his students.
• The most common gas in the Earth’s atmosphere is Nitrogen and is a colourless, odourless, tasteless, and mostly inert gas, constituting 78.09% by volume of Earth's atmosphere.
• KSA is the International Olympic Committee code for Saudi Arabia.
• Formally John or Jane Doe are placeholder names when a true identity is unknown or with-held.
• The Ghandi family had three of its members assassinated in 1948 - Mahatma Gandhi, 1984 - Indira Gandhi and 1991 - Rajiv Gandhi.