Trivia Bits 10 December

 

• The Swiss Guard are charged with the protection of the Pope and have served as bodyguards, ceremonial guards, and palace guards at foreign European courts since the late 15th century.
• Irish born Hollywood actor, Maureen O’Sullivan is best remembered for her role as Jane Parker in the Tarzan movies.
• Whitehorse is the capital of the Canadian territory of Yukon.
• Tom Cruise’s character was involved in Risky Business in the 1983 Paul Brackman teenage movie of the same name.
• Geomorphology is the branch of geology which deals with the origins of land forms.
• If not Columbus then the Scandinavian navigator Leif Ericson is credited with discovering America.
• Prestissimo is a musical term meaning to play in the most rapid tempo.
• Paul Getty, who had always been vastly, immeasurably wealthy, and yet went around looking like a man who cannot quite remember to turn off the gas before leaving home was written by Bernard Levin in The Pendulum Years
• Nicknamed Fiery Fred, Fred Stolle played with the Australian Davis Cup Team in 1964, 1965 and 1966.
• UNESCO is the acronym that refers to the UN body set up in 1946 that is concerned with the provision of education for all and the preservation of culture.
• Kilkenny is an Irish county that gives its name to a beer and it called Cill Chainnigh in Gaelic.
• Salisbury is a city in Wiltshire that has a cathedral with the highest spire in England.
• Buller was a British General in the Boer War and is also the name of a ski resort in Victoria, Australia with a mountain that is 1804 metres above sea level.
• The Queen Alexandra Bird Wing Butterfly is the largest butterfly in the world. The first European to discover the species was Albert Stewart Meek in 1906, a collector employed by Lord Walter Rothschild to collect natural history specimens from Papua New Guinea. The first specimen was taken with the aid of a small shotgun.
• Four versions of The Scream were created by Edvard Munch.