Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Trivia Bits 04 December

 

  • In the board game Cluedo, a secret passage connects the Kitchen to the Study.
  • Bats are referred to scientifically as chiroptera.
  • Of Marilyn Monroe, US actor Tony Curtis said It’s like kissing Hitler.
  • Aristotle was the pet octopus of Pugsley Addams in the television situation comedy series The Addams Family.
  • The 2009 Australian movie Bran Nue Dae was directed by Rachel Perkins and starred Geoffrey Rush. Magda Szubanski, Ernie Dingo and Jessica Mauboy and was a film adaptation of 1990 musical Bran Nue Dae by Jimmy Chi.
  • Time Magazine’s Person of the 20th Century was Albert Einstein.
  • Australian TV personality, Tony Barber migrated to Perth at age 7. The iconic talk show host began his career as a Perth DJ. He later worked in TV hosting Temptation, Family Feud and Sale of the Century.
  • 1951 movie The African Queen starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart was directed by John Huston.
  • Mars is often referred to as The Red Planet.
  • The original book of Charlie and Chocolate Factory was written by Roald Dahl.
  • Hermoine Granger in the Harry Potter series was played by Emma Watson.
  • Cleaver Greene in the 2010 Australian television series Rake was played by Richard Roxburgh with the series adapted America for the American TV series starring Greg Kinnear as the lead character, renamed Keegan Deane for American audiences
  • Diet Coke was introduced in 1982.
  • Younger than Springtime is one of the many hit songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific.
  • Penelope Pitstop drove a Compact Pussycat in the animated TV series Wacky Races.

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