Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Trivia Bits 20 May

 

American fashion model and actress Brooklyn Decker married former tennis champion Andy Roddick in 2009.

Liam Payne is best known as a member of the boy band most popular in the 1980s Mr Mister and consisted of Richard Page on vocals and bass guitar, Steve George on keyboards, Pat Mastelotto on acoustic and electronic drums and Steve Farris on guitars.

Remains of a herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur Muttaburrasaurus were found in the Australian state of Queensland in 1963 at Rosebery Downs Station beside Thomson River near Muttaburra, Queensland, Australia.

An arbalest was a late variation of the medieval European crossbow coming into use during the 12th century.

British television police procedural crime drama Waking the Dead, produced by the BBC, features a fictional Cold Case unit composed of CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist first aired in September 2000 with a total of nine series and the final episode aired on 11 April 2011.

Fear of sin is known as peccatiphobia.

Princess Amelia's Battery, Princess Anne's Battery and Princess Caroline's Battery in Gibraltar were named after Amelia, Anne and Caroline, the daughters of King George II of Great Britain.

The Gray Ranks was a codename for the underground paramilitary Scouting Association in Poland during World War II.

BBC television sitcom Dad's Army is a about the Home Guard which consisted of local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service during the Second World War was broadcast from 1968 to 1977.

The 2012 documentary film Stories We Tell was directed by Canadian actress and film director Sarah Polley.

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