Thursday, August 15, 2013

Trivia Bits 15 August

 

  • June Cleaver in the TV sitcom Leave it to Beaver was played by Barbara Billingsley.
  • Neil Diamond, US singer-songwriter was born in New York in 1941.
  • The country second in size to size to Brazil in South America is Argentina - 2,780,400 km2/1,073,518 sq mi .
  • The informal term popularly used for the Hindu-language film industry based in Mumbai, India is Bollywood.
  • The coastal resort of Nice is in France.
  • Princess Elizabeth was on a royal tour to Kenya when she received the news that her father, King George VI had died and she was the monarch.
  • Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross during the Crimean War with The Victoria Cross (VC) was instituted on 29 January 1856.
  • The musical direction incalzando means getting faster and louder.
  • The German word for Twenty is zwanig.
  • The expression take with a pinch of salt means to believe in part only; have reservations.

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