Trivia Bits 13 October

 

• Dik-dik is a small antelope.
• Lake Titicaca, in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia, is the highest commercially navigable lake is in South America.
• Budget Airline AirAsia X is based in Malaysia.
• A desert planet called Arrakis is the setting of the Dune novels written by Frank Herbert.
• US Actor Audie Murphy was America’s most highly decorated soldier in World Ward II.
• Australian Author Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.
• The American city said to be so good that they named it twice was New York.
• Edward Dickens, the youngest son of English author Charles Dickens, migrated to New South Wales in Australia.
• An Australian American media mogul, Rupert Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father, in 1952 - his first name is Keith.
• The two colours on the Spanish flag are red and yellow.
• The more common name of bovine spongiform encephalopathy is Mad Cow Disease.
• A filibeg is a type of Kilt worn by Scottish Highlanders.
• 12 US astronauts have walked on the moon.
• Henry Irving was the first English actor to be knighted by King George V for services to the stage.
• The headquarters of food giant McDonalds has its headquarters in Chicago.