Monday, August 11, 2014

Trivia Bits 11 August

 

Buddh International Circuit

The Buddh International Circuit (pictured) is a racing circuit in India and is best known as the venue for the annual Formula One Indian Grand Prix first hosted on 30 October 2011.

Monica E. Geller is a fictional character in the American sitcom Friends, portrayed by Courteney Cox and is known as the "Mother Hen" of the group and her Greenwich Village apartment is one of the group's main gathering places.

Bimini and New Providence are islands of the Caribbean country The Bahamas.

The Rosetta Stone was discovered by Napoleon’s army in Egypt in 1799 by a soldier, Pierre-François Bouchard, of the French expedition to Egypt.

The study of place names is called toponymy which is derived from the Greek words tópos (τόπος) ("place") and ónoma (ὄνομα) ("name").

Until February 2012, Malev Airlines was the principal airline of Hungary.

Found in the coldwaters of the Arctic, northern Atlantic, and northern Pacific Oceans, the Lion's Mane Jellyfish is the biggest jellyfish in the world Have been found with a bell diameter of 2.5 metres (8.2 ft), with the tentacles trailing as long as 30 metres (98 ft) or more.

A Methuselah bottle holds six litres of champagne.

Six Thousand Questions was the original name for the game Trivial Pursuit and was released in 1982.

The Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts funded in 1833 is the oldest Mechanics' Institute and the oldest continuous lending library in Australia.

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