Trivia Bits 10 February

 

• FARC is a guerilla organisation based in Colombia - The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia—Ejército del Pueblo, FARC–EP and FARC).
• Oliebollen are a a traditional food of the Netherlands and are variety of dumpling made by using an ice-scooper or two spoons to scoop a certain amount of dough and dropping the dough into a deep fryer filled with hot oil.
• George H W Bush, the 41st President of the United States, was preceded by Ronald Reagan as President of the United States and was succeeded by Bill Clinton.
• The prefix HMAS stands for His/Her Majesty’s Australian Ship, with King George V on 10 July 1911 granting the title of Royal Australian Navy to the naval forces of Australia and hence the ships styled with HMAS.
• Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist Leonard Cohen wrote the award winning Hallelujah in 1984 and since has been performed by almost 200 artists in various languages.
• Fiji banded, Camphece spinytail and rhinoceros are types of the Iguana reptile.
• The 14th-century Cloud Platform at Juyongguan situated in the Guangou Valley at the Juyongguan Pass of the Great Wall of China is inscribed with Buddhist texts in six different scripts: Lanydza, Tibetan, 'Phags-pa, Old Uyghur, Tangut and Chinese.
• Dr Chris Warner is a main character in Shortland Street, a New Zealand prime-time soap opera centring around the fictitious Shortland Street Hospital and has been running since 1992.
• Lampedusa, the southernmost part of Italy lies closest to the African country of Tunisia which is about 113 kilometres (70 miles) away.
• Catherine Earnshaw is one of the main characters in Emily Brontë’s classical novel Wuthering Heights, written between October 1845 and June 1846, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.