Thursday, November 20, 2014

Trivia Bits 20 November

 

mgm leo

The Lion (pictured) used in the MGM studio logo was named Leo with there having been around seven different lions used for the MGM logo; these lions include Tanner and Leo, the current (and seventh) lion.

Australian film and television actor Gary Sweet played Steve McClintock in the Australian television series Police Rescue which originally aired between 1989 and 1996.

British tennis player, who won the Men's Singles event at the Australasian Championships in 1919 Algernon Kingscote was the son of British novelist Lucas Cleeve which was the pseudonym of Adeline Georgiana Isabel Kingscote author of over sixty works including The Woman Who Wouldn't in 1895.

After a reign of 63 years and seven months, British monarch, Queen Victoria, died on the Isle of Wight at Osborne House on Tuesday, 22 January 1901 at the age of 81.

Trogon is a genus of birds occurring in forests and woodlands of the Americas, ranging from south-eastern Arizona to northern Argentina.

Dating from the 9th-century BCE, the Syrian city of Tell Rifaat, a small city in northern Syria, dates back to the Iron Age when it was an Aramaean settlement known as Arpad.

In the game of Scrabble, the letters J and X are both worth 8 points.

The flag of Europe consists of a circle of 12 golden (yellow) stars on an azure background and is the flag and emblem of the Council of Europe (CoE) and the European Union (EU).

Liberty City and Vice City are featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto created by David Jones and Mike Dailly and first released in October 1997.

In the culinary term dulce de leche, leche means milk in English and dulce de leche translates as caramel.

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