Trivia Bits 01 May

 

• A black pigment made of lampblack mixed with glue is called Indian Ink and is a simple black ink once widely used for writing and printing and now more commonly used for drawing.
• British band Manfred Mann had a number 1 hit in 1968 with Quinn the Eskimo (Mighty Quinn).
• The second book in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini is titled Eldest.
• At the height of the Cold War, on 7 August 1987 American long-distance open-water swimmer and writer Lynne Cox became the first person to swim from the USA to the USSR.
• The International Comedy Festival Just For Laughs is held in Canada.
• The three gods Brahma, Vishni and Shiva make up the Hindi trinity.
• The world’s largest land-locked country is Kazakhstan being neighboured clockwise from the north by Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, and also a large part of the Caspian Sea.
• Llamas and alpacas are both native to South America.
• Playing Katharine Hepburn in the 2004 movie The Aviator was Australian actress and academy award winner Cate Blanchett.
• St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Albany, New York, still has a silver communion service set given as a gift by Queen Anne in 1715.