Trivia Bits 25 January

 

• In the US, if the President and Vice-President can no longer serve, then The Speaker of the House assumes the Presidency.
• Chiefly due to the influence of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula as well as its later film adaptations and extensions, Transylvania, although in the English-speaking world it has been strongly associated with vampires, is a historical region in the central part of Romania bounded by the Carpathian mountain range.
• TV series The Closer stars Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson.
• Australian tennis champion, John Newcombe, won the Australian Open singles title twice – in 1973 and 1975. Overall, he won 26 Grand Slam titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles.
• The precious mineral, diamonds, are found in igneous rocks known as kimberlites named after the town of Kimberley in South Africa, where the discovery of an 83.5-carat (16.7 g) diamond in 1871 spawned a diamond rush.
• Morticia in the 1991 movie The Adams Family was played by Anjelica Huston who is daughter of director John Huston, and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston.
• St. Swithun's Way, a 34-mile (55 km) long-distance footpath in England from Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire to Farnham, Surrey, was opened by Hampshire County Council in 2002 to mark the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
• Osteogenesis imperfect is better known as Brittle Bone Disease, a congenital bone disorder.
• Lederhosen are breeches made of leather and may be either short or knee-length and were traditionally worn in Germany.
• In 2012, Joyce Banda became the first female president of Malawi, a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland.