Sunday, May 11, 2014

Trivia Bits 11 May

 

  • American comic book writer and editor Len Wein co-created the Swamp Thing character for DC Comics and Wolverine for Marvel Comics.
  • Mount Field National Park is a national park in Tasmania, Australia, 64 km northwest of Hobart and rises to 1,434 metres (4,705 ft) at the summit of Mount Field West.
  • In Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, the Sugarplum Fairy rules the Land of Sweets.
  • In a five-handed game of 500, 53 cards are used to play – 500 being a game devised in America shortly before 1900 and promoted by the United States Playing Card Company, who copyrighted and marketed the rules in 1904.
  • The element Sulphur (sulphur) is also known as brimstone (burn stone) as referred to in the Bible with this name still being used in several non-scientific tomes.
  • American supernatural/police drama television series Sleepy Hollow premiered on September 16, 2013and is considered a "modern-day retelling" of the 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving.
  • Montreal, city in the Canadian province of Quebec was named after Mount Royal a hill in the city of Montreal and is part of the Monteregian Hills situated between the Laurentians and the Appalachians.
  • Hurleys and sliotars are used to play the Irish sport of Hurling.
  • Kulap figurines of limestone or chalk were made in Melanesia and are small funerary sculptures from New Ireland associated with death rituals.
  • Once believed to run from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean in what is now the western United States, the legendary Buenaventura River, was imagined around the late 1770’s to parallel the significance of the Mississippi River.
  • Mt Woodrooffe is the highest point in the Australian state of South Australia.
  • The Basque Country region spans the borders of France and Spain.
  • The musical note which is represented by a hollow oval note head is the semibreve.
  • The children’s book The Tiger Who Came to Tea was written by Judith Kerr, a German-born British writer and illustrator who now resides in Great Britain.
  • Abaci is the plural of the noun Abacus.
  • American television series Hart to Hart starred Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a wealthy couple who moonlight as amateur detectives which ran from 1979 to 1984.
  • Joseph Bonaparte – the one time King of Spain – was a brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • To prevent match-fixing at the 2002 Morocco Cup cricket tournament, CCTV cameras were installed in the dressing rooms. Pakistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka competed in the competition with Sri Lanka scooping the $250,000 prize money.
  • British monarch King Edward VII was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
  • Beetroot is the main ingredient of traditional Ukrainian borscht with the other two main ingredients being cabbage and potato.

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