Friday, December 6, 2013

Trivia Bits 06 December

 

  • Rice is made to make the Japanese spirit Sake and is sometimes called "rice wine".
  • In the card game bridge, the suite of spades is ranked highest.
  • Corleone was the surname of the family at the centre of the Godfather movies and was based on the town of Corleone a small town of approximately 12,000 inhabitants in the Province of Palermo in Sicily, Italy.
  • Charles Dickens was working on the book The Mystery of Edwin Drood when he died in 1872.
  • The company White Star Line owned the Titanic.
  • Chloe Lattanzi is the daughter of Australian singer and actor Olivia Newton-John who is best known for her role as Sandy in the 1978 movie Grease.
  • An icythyologist studies fish.
  • The Gibson Desert is in the Australian state of Western Australia.
  • Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires the son of Italian parents on 17 December 1936.
  • The more common name of diplopia is double vision.
  • The common herb Coriander is also known as Cilantro and referred to as coriander leaves, fresh coriander or Chinese parsley.
  • Stromboli is a villain in the 1940 animated movie Pinocchio.
  • The Ginkgo is the national tree of China and is also known as the maidenhair tree being regarded as a living fossil, recognisably similar to fossils dating back 270 million years.
  • Polypropylene, the main ingredient in household plastic, was discovered on a moon of Saturn during 2013.
  • The letter T is the letter immediately to the right of R on a keyboard.

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