Trivia Bits 27 August

 

• The Beatles performed four concerts in Adelaide, South Australia in 1964.
• Sinology is the study of the language, literature and civilisation of China.
• Aqua is the Latin word for water.
• Marmalade was originally made from the Quince.
• An epiphytic plant is one that grows on another plant.
• The shape of flowers is an integral part of the process of pollination.
• British musician and singer Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight.
• The 1942 movie Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman is famous for the following sayings Here’s looking at you kid and Roundup the usual suspects.
• Kruger National Park is in South Africa.
• According to the Macquarie Dictionary, Nepotism is patronage bestowed in consideration of family relationship and not on merit.