Trivia Bits 21 December

 

• Easter Island or Rapa Nui is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean and is South Amerifamous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people.
• The name of the panda in the Kung Fu Panda movies is Po.
• The Atlantic paper mussel, which lives along the Atlantic coast of North America, from Maryland to Florida, as well as in the Gulf of Mexico, from Texas to Mexico, has been found growing at densities of over 3000 per square metre (11 sq ft).
• French Guiana has a coastline on the north Atlantic coast of South America.
• The only person to have won a BAFTA Award for his work in black and white, Colour, HD and 3D is English broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
• American Samoa is located in the South Pacific Ocean with capital city, Apia, and Faleolo International Airport situated on the island of Upolu.
• Jack Nicholson won the Best Actor Award for the 1990 romantic comedy movie As Good As It Gets. Jack’s co-star Helen Hunt won the Best Actress Award for her role as a single mother with an asthmatic son.
• Portia Simpson-Miller became the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth realm of Jamaica in 2012.
• The Booker Prize 1981 winning novel Midnight’s Children was authored by Salman Rushdie.
• In 2012, London’s Big Ben was renamed The Elizabeth Tower during Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee year.
• The world’s first feature movie The Story of the Kelly Gang screened in Melbourne in 1906.
• The most common cause of the disease osteomalacia is the deficiency in vitamin D.
• Seven emirates constitute the United Arab Emirates - each is governed by a hereditary emir, who chooses one of their members to be the president of the federation. The constituent emirates are Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain.
• The three leaders of the 1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales were Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth and is officially credited as the first successful European crossing.
• There are four statues of Lions at the base of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square London which built to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson, who died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.