Friday, September 5, 2014

Trivia Bits 05 September

 

Wave Rock  WA

The Australian tourist attraction known as Wave Rock (pictured) is located 296km southeast of Perth, the capital city of Western Australian.

Fantasy Island is an American television series that originally aired from 1977 to 1984 starring Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke, the enigmatic overseer of a mysterious island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, where people from all walks of life could come and live out their fantasies, albeit for a price.

American singer, actor and occasional songwriter Bobby Sherman became a very popular teen idol when in 1969, his first gold single, "Little Woman", became popular, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Until Sunday, September 3rd, 1967, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekend at 5 p.m. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize 'this' was the day of the changeover.

Wyoming was the first US state to allow women to vote when on December 10, 1869 territorial Governor John Allen Campbell extended the right to vote to women.

American NASA engineer Adam Steltzner whose projects include the Mars Curiosity rover landing, said he spent high school studying sex, drugs and rock and roll.

James Spader is an American actor best known for his eccentric roles in films and notably stars as Raymond "Red" Reddington in The Blacklist, and he is listed to play Ultron in Marvel Studios' upcoming film Avengers: Age of Ultron.

American science fiction, fantasy novella and short story author, and teacher Zenna Henderson's story "Pottage" was made into the 1971 ABC-TV Movie, "The People", starring William Shatner, Kim Darby, and Diane Varsi.

Croke Park is a GAA stadium located in Dublin Ireland is and the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).

In Japan, Yabusame means to participate in the sport of archery whilst mounted on a horse.

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