Trivia Bits 16 December

 

• Mickey Mouse is rhyming slang for House.
• The 2002 Tour de France had no official winner.
• Biathlon comprises the sport s of cross-country, sand rifle shooting.
• Rene Lalique is best known for Glass design and was a French glass designer known for his creations of perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and automobile hood ornaments.
• An obi is a sash for traditional Japanese dress.
• The Battle of Eureka Stockade was led by Peter Lalor in 1854 being a historically significant organised rebellion of gold miners of Ballarat, Australia against British colonial authority.
• A tetrahedron has four sides.
• Perth, Western Australia, is the capital city with the most consistent wind – The Fremantle Doctor. It blows up between 12pm and 3pm almost every day of the year arriving to cool down beach goers.
• The chemical symbol for Calcium is Ca.
• Rabat is the capital of the northwest African nation of Morocco.
• The Latin term contra mundum means against the world – ie defying accepted belief.
• The Coptic Pope elected in 2012 is Pope Tawadros II the 118th Coptic Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.
• The English romantic poet John Keats was born in London in 1795 and died in Rome in 1821 from tuberculosis.
• Salvador Dali created a telephone that incorporated a lobster in 1936 and is known as the Lobster Telephone and also as the Aphrodisiac Telephone.
• The first post-war German Chancellor was Konrad Adenauer who held the position from 1949 to 1963.
• The Australian Federal Parliament directly administers the following territories: Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Coral Sea Islands, Heard Island, McDonald Islands and Jervis Bay Territory, a naval base and sea port for the national capital in land that was formerly part of New South Wales.