Trivia Bits 12 October

 

• The Great Fire of London was in 1666.
• Suricate is another name for the meerkat.
• The Australian city of Melbourne failed in its attempt to host to hold the 1996 Olympic Games.
• The Play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was written by Tennessee Williams and was later made into a successful movie starring Elizabeth Taylor.
• A hinny is a cross between a male horse and a female donkey,
• A series of novels about a vampire called Letsat was written by Anne Rice.
• Famed Carnegie Hall is in the US city of New York.
• Another second was added to the end of the year 2005.
• Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Iolanthe is also known as The Peer and the Peri.
• In snooker, a blue ball is worth 5 points.