Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Trivia Bits 29 January

 

  • Being also known as Cnapan Country House or Cnapan Restaurant and Bed & Breakfast, Cnapan Hotel in Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales, takes its name from the medieval Celtic sport of cnapan, a Welsh name for a Celtic form of medieval football dating back to 1603.
  • Baseball is the sport played in the Japan Series and is the annual championship series in Nippon Professional Baseball and the top baseball league in Japan.
  • Leonard “Chico” Marx was the eldest brother of the Marx Brothers - Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo and Zeppo.
  • English musician, singer and songwriter, Eric Clapton, is known by the nickname of slowhand.
  • Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest freshwater lake, curves for nearly 400 miles through south-eastern Siberia, north of the Mongolian border and is more than 5,000 feet deep (1637m).
  • As at 2013, Australia produces the most bauxite, an aluminium ore and is the main source of aluminium, in the world.
  • The Koutoubia Mosque, or "Bookseller's Mosque", the largest mosque in Marrakech, Morocco, was named after the bookselling trade practiced in the nearby souk, an open-air marketplace or commercial quarter.
  • Iconic American actress, singer and vaudevillian Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm in 9122 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to vaudevillian parents Ethel Marion and Francis Avent "Frank" Gumm.
  • The main alcoholic ingredient in the drink Sangria is wine and normally consists of wine, chopped fruit, a sweetener, and a small amount of added brandy.

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