Trivia Bits 19 July

 

Children’s game Hungry Hungry Hippos features the animal characters Lizzie, Henry, Homer and Harry with idea for the game published in 1967 by toy inventor Fred Kroll and introduced in 1978 by Milton Bradley.

Banff National Park is the oldest national park in Canada established in 1885 in the Rocky Mountains. The park, located in the province of Alberta, covers 6,641 km² (2,564 sq mi) of mountainous terrain, with numerous glaciers and ice fields, dense coniferous forest, and alpine landscapes.

Games of the XXIX Olympiad or the 2008 Summer Olympics were held in Beijing, China, from August 8 to 24, 2008.

In Greek legend, Midas had the Golden Touch because of his ability to turn everything he touched into gold which came to be called the Golden touch, or the Midas touch.

Samples of moon rock and lunar dust soil from the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 missions, mounted on wooden plaque displays especially for Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Honduras, Ireland, Malta, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Romania, Spain, and Sweden, plus the US states of Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and West Virginia, were later reported missing by many of the recipients.

There are 1,000 kilograms in a tonne.

The screenplay for the 2012 movie Anna Karenina was written by Tom Stoppard who also wrote the screenplays for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Enigma (2001) and Empire of the Sun (1987).

American rock duo, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan, The White Stripes consisted of former husband and wife team Jack and Meg White.

The first European to climb South Australia’s Mt Lofty in April 1831 was Collet Barker who was a British military officer and explorer. He explored areas of South Australia, Western Australia and Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory.

Science fiction author H G Wells has been quoted as saying If we don’t end war, war will end us.

Cotton candy, also known as candy floss, candyfloss or fairy floss, was first sold to the public at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair selling 68,655 boxes at 25¢ per box.