Trivia Bits 04 February

 

 

• The internet term thread refers to a series of linked messages.
• The musical instrument mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England, in the early 1960s.
• The Burns Supper or Burns Night is held in honour of Scottish poet Robert Burns.
• Martin Scorese’s film The Departed was a remake the Hong Kong movie Internal Affairs.
• The Serpentine River is fund in the Australian state of Western Australia.
• Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin to Queen Elizabeth II, was killed in an IRA bomb in Ireland in 1979.
• Joseph Bonaparte, the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, was King of Spain between 1808 and 1813.
• The electric organ, computerised Braille, Trivial Pursuit and quartz clocks were all invented by people from Canada.
• The Lambert is a former unit of luminence.
• The first Formula One World Championship season was held in 1950 with first world championship race held at Silverstone, United Kingdom.