Trivia Bits 30 April

 

• The locust bean is more commonly known in Australia as Carob.
• With one of its steeples at 100.98 m (331 ft 4 in), the Cathedral of Magdeburg is the highest church in East Germany and houses the grave of Emperor Otto I the Great.
• The Sierra Madre Occidental is a major mountain range in Mexico with name Sierra Madre meaning "Mother Mountains".
• Fort Calgary, in what is now Calgary, Alberta, was originally named Fort Brisebois when it was established in 1875 and was named after commander Éphrem A. Brisebois of an "F" Troop that travelled north from Fort Macleod to find a suitable spot on the Bow for the fort.
• Before American actress, dancer, singer and makeup artist Helen Gallagher became well-known for her role as matriarch on American soap opera Ryan's Hope, she won a Tony Award for her work in the 1971 Broadway revival of No, No, Nanette.
• The common colloquial term for winning or losing a tennis set 6-9 is Bagel.
• Ankarafantsika National Park in Madagascar is home to the rhinoceros chameleon and the greater big-footed mouse.
• The Saffir-Simpson Scale classifies hurricanes and is used only to describe hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean and northern Pacific Ocean east of the International Date Line.
• Upstairs, Downstairs is a British television drama series of 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975 which was set in a large townhouse in Edwardian, First World War and interwar Belgravia in London, depicting the lives of the servants "downstairs" and their masters—the family "upstairs"
• The value of the coin known as “two bob” is two shillings.