Friday, June 27, 2014

Trivia Bits 27 June

 

The sport of murderball is also known as rugby and is the original name for Wheelchair Rugby.

The World Games, for sports not usually in the Summer Olympic Games, were first held in 1981 in Santa Clara, California. The World Games are are organised and governed by the International World Games Association (IWGA), under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Gedser Odde on the island of Falster in the Baltic Sea is Denmark's southernmost point.

The British Seafarers' Union was formed in Southampton in England in October 1911 being a trade union which organised sailors and firemen in the British ports of Southampton and Glasgow between 1911/1912 and 1922.

Gibraltar's North Bastion and South Bastion were built by Spain in the 1560's to protect the city against attacks from either direction.

Encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, Somoa’s flag features five stars having a red field with a blue rectangle in the canton which bears the Southern Cross Constellation: four large white stars and one smaller star.

Australia does have the largest deposits of lead, nickel and zinc.

In the video game Frog Fractions, the player travels from a lily pad on Earth to Mars, where they must obtain a work visa to continue working on the planet.

Pope Gregory XIII signed the Papal Bull introducing the Gregorian calendar in 1582.

The Australian War Memorial was opened by Governor-General Lord Gowrie in Canberra on November 11, 1941.

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