Trivia Bits 19 December

 

• The Flintstones premiered on US television on 30 September 1960.
• The ruins of the city of Troy are now in the country of Turkey and are best known for being the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.
• Graeme “Shirley” Strachan was best known as the lead singer of the Australian 1970s rock group Skyhooks.
• In the Ang Lee directed 2012 American-Indian-British movie The Life of Pi Meerkats were the animals on the carnivorous island.
• Trafalgar Square is a public space and tourist attraction in central London, England, is home to Nelson's Column, iconic stone lions, the famous Fourth Plinth and a lot of pigeons and commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar, a British naval victory of the Napoleonic Wars over France which took place on 21 October 1805 off the coast of Cape Trafalgar, Spain.
• Born in Dartford, Kent UK, on July 26, 1943 was The Rolling Stone’s front man Mick Jagger whose romantic escapades gained as much attention as his music.
• Western Australia's Mt Augustus is the largest rock in the world, 8 kilometres long, 3 kilometres across and .377 kilometres high.
• In para-alpine skiing, outrigger skis are an assistive device used by skiers with balance issues or amputations.
• The 2013 novel Walking on Trampolines was written by Australia author/journalist Frances Whiting
• The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is an award given by the United Kingdom and is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725.
• American aviator Robert William Prescott, born 1913 in Fort Worth, Texas, founded the Flying Tiger Line, the first scheduled cargo airline in the United States being the National Skyway Freight Corporation established on June 25, 1945.
• Dustin Hoffmann has won Oscars for Kramer vs Kamer and Rainman.
• The fastest lap at the 2013 Italian Grand Prix was set by British driver Lewis Hamilton driving for the McLaren team with a time of 1.25.565.
• Wouter De Becker is better known by the stage name of Gotye, a multi award winning Australian recording artist.
• A Satyr Tragopan is a bird also known as the Crimson Horned Pheasant, is a pheasant found in the Himalayan reaches of India, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan.