Trivia Bits 07 May

 

• The Nanny is an American television sitcom originally broadcast 1993–1999, starring Fran Drescher as Fran Fine, a Jewish Queens native who becomes the nanny of three children from the New York/British high society.
• In 1994, Scottish pop rock band t Wet Wet Wet had a hit with the song Love is All Around which was used on the soundtrack to the film Four Weddings and a Funeral.
• The Dutch warship Koningin Regentes, her sister ship De Ruyter and the protected cruiser Zeeland bombarded the city of Denpasar, Dutch East Indies, on 16 and 17 September 1906.
• The novel by Lee Child on which the 2012 movie Jack Reacher starring Tom cruise is based is One Shot.
• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief is a 2013 non-fiction book about Scientology written by Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, screenwriter Lawrence Wright.
• The tallest and heaviest species of penguin is the Emperor Penguin, endemic to Antarctica, reaching 122 cm (48 in) in height and weighing anywhere from 22 to 45 kg (49 to 99 lb).
• The name of the constellation Camelopardus comes from the Latin word for the animal giraffe.
• The children’s character Bookaboo is a world famous rock puppy and legendary canine drummer. But Bookaboo has a little problem. Bookaboo loses his 'bojo' (his rhythm) and can not play unless he's been able to share a book with someone, hence his famous line "A Story a day or I just can't play".
• The tango is performed in 4/4 time and is a partner dance that originated in the 1890s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay.
• Winning the most Wimbledon singles tournaments during the 1980’s was Czech American tennis player Martina Navratilova winning a record nine times.