Monday, June 2, 2014

Trivia Bits 02 June

 

In Roman mythology, Aurora is the Goddess of Dawn who renews herself every morning and flies across the sky, announcing the arrival of the sun.

Mexican American professional golfer Lee Trevino has the nickname Spermex or The Merry Mex.

The massive Chinchaga fire of 1950 in northern Canada produced a smoke cloud that was blamed on supernatural forces, aliens, and nuclear Armageddon.

Bagot, beetal and bilberry are breeds of goats.

The crab Ocypode cursor is a species of ghost crab that can be found along the coasts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and eastern Mediterranean Sea, but not in between.

Frogstomp was the 1996 debut album of band Silverchair, an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992.

Captain John Yossarian is the protagonist in the American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright Joseph Heller’s novels Catch-22 (1961) and Closing Time (1994)

An infant meerkat is known as a pup.

Quinyambie is a pastoral lease operating as a cattle station in north east South Australia with the unusual name being an Aboriginal word for excreta.

Popular Australian TV series Neighbours occurs in Ramsay Street in the fictional Australian suburb of Erinsbourough.

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