Trivia Bits 30 August

 

• The play Much Ado About Nothing was written by William Shakespeare.
• The South Pacific island of Sandy Island was found in November 2012 not to exist. It was charted for over a century as lying between Australia and New Caledonia in the Coral Sea.
• John Lennon was married to Yoko Ono at the time of his untimely death in 1980.
• The codename for the successful US research and development programme during World War 2 to produce an atomic bomb was The Manhattan Project.
• Australian television compere Graham Kennedy’s middle name was Cyril.
• The canine movie star Beethoven was a St Bernard.
• A cooper is someone who makes or repairs wooden barrels generally used in wine making.
• The South Australian city of Murray Bridge was once known as Edwards Crossing.
• Basketball is featured in the 1992 movie White Men Can’t Jump.
• The Golden Gate Bridge is in the US city of San Francisco.