Trivia Bits 05 December

 

• Ornithology is the study of birds.
• The Australian state of Victoria boasts two Nobel Prize Winners. Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Sir John Eccles. Burnet won the 1960 prize in Physiology or Medicine for demonstrating acquired immune tolerance. Eccles won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse.
• The Colorado River flows through the Grand Canyon.
• Augesia is the medical term for the complete loss of the sense of taste.
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman was written by John Fowles and first published in 1969.
• The monetary unit of South Africa is the rand.
• US actor River Phoenix was 23 when he died in 1993.
• England’s second largest city is Birmingham.
• The 2013 film The Turning is based on a short story collection by Australian author Tim Winton and starred Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving amongst a myriad of actors in each of the short films that make up this one movie.
• The game of Patience is associated with cards.
• An aeroplane’s black box is not coloured black but orange to facilitate their being found after a crash and is an audio or data recording device in an airplane or helicopter.
• There are 39 books in the Old Testament.
• The Dish, made famous in the 2000 Australian movie of the same name, is in New South Wales and is the radio telescope at Parkes, New South Wales, Australia, was used by NASA throughout the Apollo program to receive signals in the Southern Hemisphere.
• Singer Josh Groban is American in nationality.
• The world’s deepest ocean is the Pacific Ocean.