Thursday, July 24, 2014

Trivia Bits 24 July

 

The longest-running show in Broadway theatre history was Cats with 7,485 performances when it closed on September 10, 2000 until it was overtaken by The Phantom of the Opera which opened 26 January 1988 and as of 24 November 2013 had had 10743 performances.

The creator of the TV series Homeland, Gideon Raff, is the son of a former Accountant General in Israel's Ministry of Finance.

The United States of America is home to the majority of ethnic Cajuns mainly living in the state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles.

Andrea, Caroline, Sharon and Jim are members of the Irish band The Corrs that combines pop rock with traditional Celtic folk music and are from Dundalk, Co. Louth, in Ireland.

Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor Nick Cave’s full name is Nicholas Edward Cave.

Return to Sender, a hit for Elvis Presley in 1962, comes from the 1962 movie Girls! Girls! Girls! Elvis Presley plays Ross Carpenter, a Hawaiian fishing guide and sailor who enjoys boating and sailing out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he seeks to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he built with his father.

Wally Lewis was the captain of the Queensland State of origin team from 1981 – 1991 and was known as The King of Rugby.

France was the first to issue official postage due stamps in 1859 and are a stamp added to an underpaid piece of mail to indicate the extra postage due.

Dragon's teeth were square-pyramidal concrete fortifications used during the Second World War to impede the movement of tanks and were employed extensively particularly on the Siegfried Line and were used by all sides in the various theatres of war.

Hurricane Audrey, in Louisiana in 1957, was one of the first hurricanes observed by weather radar with Audrey leaving $147 million (1957 USD) in damage and at least 416 fatalities in the US.

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