Trivia Bits 06 July

 

The word ukulele comes from the Hawaiian word meaning jumping flea.

Yoko Ono's 1969 song "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" was inspired by a custody battle over her daughter, with whom she didn't reunite for another 25 years.

Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, Where Did Our Love Go?, released on June 17, 1964, became The Supremes' first number one hit after being rejected by The Marvelettes.

Patience Latting was not just the first female Mayor of Oklahoma City, but also the first woman to serve as mayor of any U.S. city exceeding 350,000 people. She was Mayor from 1971 to 1983. The Patience Latting Library, the newest branch of the city's public library system, was opened to the public in 2011.

Australia’s oldest Chinatown is on Melbourne being established during the Victorian gold rush in 1851 when Chinese prospectors came to Australia for the gold rush in search of gold.

Rechelle Hawkes, the captain of the Australian Women’s Hockey Team, delivered the Athlete’s Oath at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Within Superman's Fortress of Solitude, there is an apartment set aside for Supergirl as well as an alien zoo, a giant steel diary in which Superman wrote his, a chess-playing robot, specialized exercise equipment, a laboratory where Superman worked on various projects such as developing defenses to Kryptonite, a (room-sized) computer, communications equipment, and rooms dedicated to all of his friends, including one for Clark Kent to fool visitors. Superman's Fortress of Solitude is outlined in DC Special Series #26 (1981); Superman and his Incredible Fortress of Solitude.

British Comic strip character Modesty Blaise was created in 1963 by Peter O'Donnell (writer) and Jim Holdaway (art).

The two Canadian provinces bordering New Brunswick are Quebec and Nova Scotia.

A 1540 bottle of wine from Würzburger Stein, a vineyard in the German wine region of Franconia, may have been the oldest wine ever tasted. An unopened bottle from the 1540 vintage is still kept today in the cellars of the Bürgerspital zum Heiligen Geist wine estate, a charitable foundation based in Würzburg.

Drive, the 2011 movie, starred Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan and Bryan Cranston.

A speleologist studies caves, their features, make-up, structure, physical properties, history, life forms, and the processes by which they form (speleogenesis) and change over time.

The computing acronym GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format and is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987.

In Greek mythology, the twin sister of Apollo was Artemis often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto.

The 1977 novel The Thorn Birds was written by Australian author Colleen McCullough which in 1983 it was adapted as a TV mini-series starring Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown and Jean Simmons. Set primarily on Drogheda, a fictional sheep station in the Australian outback named after Drogheda, Ireland, the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1915 to 1969.

With a top speed of 240 km/h, the Formula Rossa roller-coaster is located in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

Russia’s special military forces are known as the Spetsnaz which is an umbrella term for any special forces in Russian, literally "special purpose forces".

The peak of Mount Hikurangi (1620 metres) is the highest non-volcanic peak on the North Island of New Zealand.

Australian journalist/author Caroline Overington wrote the 2013 novel No Place Like Home

In 1971, Pakistani political scientist, writer, journalist, and anti-war activist Eqbal Ahmad was indicted on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger due to his strong criticism of the Middle East strategy of the United States.