Thursday, June 26, 2014

Trivia Bits 26 June

 

Thomas Middleton's 1624 comic satirical play A Game at Chess was considered so scandalous that the Globe Theatre was closed and the actors and author were put on trial as audiences immediately recognized the play as an allegory for the stormy relationship between Spain (the black pieces) and Great Britain (the white pieces). King James I of England is the White King; King Philip IV of Spain is the Black King. Thomas Middleton never wrote another play.

The 2013 Formula One World Driver’s Championship was won by German Formula One racing driver Sebastian Vettel.

The two Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom in 1979 were James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher.

Past Olympic mascots include several bears named Misha, Coal, Howdy and Hidy, and dogs Cobi and Waldi.

The first Tsar of Russia was Ivan IV Vasilyevich also more commonly referred to as Ivan the Terrible being the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and Tsar of All the Russias from 1547 until his death in 1584.

Cape Catastrophe is located in the Lincoln National Park in South Australia, 249 km west of Adelaide and 9.5 km south of Port Lincoln.

Australian actor Hugo Weaving played Agent Smith in the Matrix movie series written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers, and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano.

The Australian Statutory body ACCC is the acronym for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

In use as a castle during the Sanzan period (1322–1429), Shuri Castle, a Ryūkyūan castle in Shuri, Okinawa, Japan, was declared an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000.

Mark Wahlberg starred as Captain Leo Davidson in the 2001 movie Planet of the Apes directed by Tim Burton and also starred Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giamatti and Estella Warren.

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