Trivia Bits 24 December

 

• First named in 2005, trypophobia is the fear of holes.
• Life Education Australia’s mascot Healthy Harold is a loveable giraffe which for over 30 years has been teaching Australian children how to enjoy a healthy lifestyle by resisting participation in drug and alcohol abuse.
• La primavera is Italian for season spring in many Romance languages.
• In October 2012 Sky Movies 007 HD, a movie channel dedicated to the James Bond film franchise, was launched the United Kingdom and Ireland to celebrate Bond’s 50th anniversary but closed in August 2013.
• Cold Chisel, a rock band that originated in Adelaide, South Australia, released the 1978 single Khe Sanh which was deemed too offensive for airplay on commercial radio.
• The leader of the confederacy during the American Civil War was Jefferson Davis from its beginning in 1861 to its collapse in 1865.
• Linguistics is the study of language and includes language form, language meaning, and language in context.
• Agatha Barbara was the first female president of Malta being appointed the third President of the Republic for a five year term on 15 February 1982.
• The continent with the fewest number of countries is Antartica which is governed by The Antarctic Treaty which was officially entered into force on June 23, 1961. The original signatories were the 12 countries active in Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957–58. The twelve countries had significant interests in Antarctica at the time: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.
• In 2004, the Australian Embassy in Indonesia was the target of a bombing attack.
• A Coup Droit D’Autorite is a movement in the sport of fencing and is a stroke which parries and then forces through an attack.
• The Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia, Brazil, and with its roots in Rio de Janeiro and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions
• In the card game of Dixit, each player starts with a total of six random cards.
• Agatha Christie, in her novel Ordeal by Innocence, used the location of Royal Castle Hotel as inspiration for characterizing the Royal George in the novel. Ordeal by Innocence was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 3 1958.
• I once had a girl are the opening words of the Beatles song Norwegian Wood written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, released on the 1965 album Rubber Soul and was the first example of a rock band playing the sitar in one of their songs played by George Harrison.