Trivia Bits 09 May

 

• World known award wine growing area, the Barossa Valley is 60kms northeast of Adelaide, South Australia.
• The Jetsons is a 1962 to 1963 animated television comedy produced by Hanna-Barbera with the cast including George Jetson, his wife Jane and children Judy and Elroy.
• The character Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones was created by Award winning Australian author Jacqueline Harvey as an idea for a picture book but it soon became apparent that this perpetually positive seven-and-a-quarter-year-old had a lot more to say.
• The 1958 novel All the Rivers Run was written by Nancy Cato who was an Australian writer with more than twenty historical novels, biographies and volumes of poetry published.
• Starsky & Hutch is a 1970s American cop thriller television series, consisting of a 70-minute pilot movie and 92 episodes of 50 minutes each broadcast between April 30, 1975, and May 15, 1979 with a plot about two Southern California police detectives: David Michael Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser), and Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson (David Soul) usually tearing around the streets of fictional "Bay City, California" in Starsky's two-door bright-red Ford Gran Torino.
• The original bass player for The Beatles was Stuart Sutcliffe.
• The Australian outback Oodnadatta Track which runs from Marla to Marree in South Australia is 617kms in length.
• There are seventeen UNESCO World Heritage sites in Greece including Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, Old Town of Corfu, Medieval City of Rhodes, Archeological site of Delphi and the Acropolis, Athens.
• The main vegetable ingredient in the Sicilian dish caponata is eggplant.
• With 102 islands, Lake Urmia, Iran's largest lake in northwestern Iran near Iran's border with Turkey, is too salty to support fish.