Thursday, November 13, 2014

Trivia Bits 13 November

 

Bob Hope

Known as boxer Packy East before going into entertainment was English-born American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, author, and athlete Bob Hope (pictured).

Primrose, Violet and Bumble are characters from the children’s TV series Fifi and the Flowertots a British stop-motion animated children's television series first broadcast in May 2005.

In the game for two to four players, Hey That’s My Fish , a 2003 board game designed by Günter Cornett and Alveydas Jakeliunaseach player has a family of penguins with game about penguins trying to catch fish in the Antarctic.

Mansehra Rock Edicts are fourteen edicts of Mauryan emperor Ashoka inscribed on rocks in Mansehra in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and date back to the third century BC mentioning aspects of the emperor's dharma law

After originating in eastern Turkey, The Euphrates River flows through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf.

George Roy Hill won the Best Director Oscar for the 1973 The Sting, an American caper film set in September 1936, involving a complicated plot by two professional drifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw).

June Anne Devaney was 3 year old a girl from Blackburn, Lancashire, who was murdered on 15 May 1948 and in order to solve the crime police fingerprinted over 45,000 men to find the killer, the first time mass fingerprinting had been used to solve a crime.

Grammy Award winning 1997 single, Sunny Came Home was a hit for American singer-songwriter and musician Shawn Colvin.

Having received 18 Academy Award nominations, winning three, 28 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. Meryl Streep was born Mary Louise Streep.

The 1997 American epic romantic disaster film Titanic directed, written, co-produced, co-edited and partly financed by James Cameron being a fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, was the first movie to gross $US1 Billion.

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