Trivia Bits 13 August

 

• J.M. Barrie, a playwright and journalist, created Peter Pan.
• The Australian Grand Prix is a motor race held annually in Australia. The Grand Prix is the oldest surviving motor racing competition held in Australia having been held 77 times since it was first run at Phillip Island in 1928. Since 1985 the race has been a round of the FIA Formula One World Championship.
• Leopold, King of the Belgians, was returned to the throne by a plebiscite in 1950 and later abdicated in favour of his son Baudouin following strikes and other demonstrations.
• The plural for bass singers is bassi.
• Magma, in geology, is the molten material under the earth’s crust from which igneous rocks are formed.
• In the book Animal Farm by British author George Orwell, Napoleon is a pig.
• Australian Gina Rinehart, mining magnate, has been named the world’s richest woman.
• The expression to put in the hard yards means to do the work necessary to achieve a goal.
• The Caspian Sea is the world’s largest enclosed inland body of water in the world. The sea has a surface area of 371,000 km² (143,200 sq mi) and a volume of 78,200 km³ (18,800 cu mi).
• The international telephone code for Indonesia is 62.