Trivia Bits 21 October

 

• US Actor Richard Chamberlain played composer Tchaikovsky in the 1970 movie The Music Lovers.
• Lyndon Johnson became President of the United States following the assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963.
• The seats in Britain’s House of Lords are coloured red.
• The Battle of Midway in World War II was fought in the Pacific Ocean.
• Swedish business magnate Ingvar Kamprad founded retail furniture outlet IKEA.
• The most populated city in Pakistan is Karachi.
• The Australian founder of Wikileaks is Julian Assange.
• Long surviving American actor Mickey Rooney has been married eight (8) times.
• Of the two canals, Panama and Suez, the Suez Canal is the longer.
• HMAS Sydney was Australia’s first aircraft carrier and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy in 1948.