Thursday, May 22, 2014

Trivia Bits May 22

 

Euchre is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships and thought to have been invented around 1860.

The sport of curling is played on ice and is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard.

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was originally classified as the ninth planet from the Sun and now has minor-planet designation 134340 Pluto and has five known moons: Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx.

Musician Paul David Hewson is better known as U2’s Bono.

A Geiger counter measures ionizing radiation and was developed in 1908 by Hans Geiger, under the supervision of Ernest Rutherford at the Victoria University of Manchester (now the University of Manchester).

The Men in Black Trilogy was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld.

A maillot is a swimsuit for women generally consists of a tank-style torso top with high-cut legs. However, a maillot may also include a plunging neckline, turtleneck-style top, or revealing cutouts.

In 1986, English New Wave musical group Wang Chung had a hit with the song Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung means "yellow bell" in Mandarin and is the first note in the Chinese classical music scale.

Vern Schuppan was the first South Australian motor racing driver to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1983.

The disputed Cherokee Strip in Kansas was the result of a boundary conflict between the Osage, Cherokee and United States federal government which lasted from 1854 until 1866.

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