Trivia Bits 09 February

 

• Hit the sack is an expression that means simply to go to bed.
• Mario Lanza played the title role in the 1951 movie The Great Caruso which is a highly fictionalized biography of the life of tenor Enrico Caruso. Ann Blyth stars as his wife Dorothy.
• Espoo is the second largest city in Finland with a population of 252,730 (31 January 2012).
• AT is the internet domain suffix for Austria.
• The largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument is the tuba which first started appearing in orchestras in the mid-19th century.
• The American Expeditionary Forces or AEF were the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe in World War I. During the United States campaigns in World War I the AEF fought in France alongside French and British allied forces in the last year of the war, against Imperial German forces.
• The Australian tourist town of Port Douglas is in Queensland.
• After Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the third American to walk on the moon was Charles “Pete” Conrad on November 19, 1969.
• Lilibet was Queen Elizabeth II’s childhood nickname.
• The French city of Dijon is famous for the condiment of mustard.