Saturday, May 17, 2014

Trivia Bits 17 May

 

There are 6 colours on the standard Rubik’s cube - traditionally white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow, where white is opposite yellow, blue is opposite green, and orange is opposite red, and the red, white and blue are arranged in that order in a clockwise arrangement.

Native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, the endangered Golden Lion Tamarin has a long, but not prehensile, tail.

US actor and comedian David Hyde Pierce is best known for his role in the TV sitcom Frasier playing the psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane.

The Khmer Rouge destroyed Phnom Penh's Notre Dame Cathedral by tearing it down stone by stone in 1975.

Robin Hood and his Merry Men were said to have lived in the Sherwood Forest - a Royal Forest in Nottinghamshire, England.

Played by American actor Jamie Farr, Corporal (later Sergeant) Maxwell Q. Klinger is a fictional character from the M*A*S*H television series that ran from 1972 to 1983 and who is an Arab-American of Lebanese descent hailing from Toledo, Ohio.

A leveret is a young hare.

Young Women for Change is a women's rights non-profit organization in Afghanistan that held in July 2012 the first anti-harassment march in Afghan history.

The lowest layer of the atmosphere is known as the troposphere.

Charles Edward Stuart, a pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland, was commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie (The Young Pretender).

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