Friday, November 21, 2014

Trivia Bits 21 November

 

A Day At The Races cover

A Day At The Races (cover pictured) was the fifth album by British rock group Queen, released in December 1976 being the band's first completely self-produced album.

The 2010 movie Inception was written and directed by British film director, screenwriter and producer Christopher Nolan starring a large ensemble cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine.

The common four lettered name given to a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc is slug.

American television, film and stage actress Edith "Edie" Falco played the titular character of the 2009 Showtime series Nurse Jackie, an American medical dark satirical comedy-drama series.

American former sex worker Divine Brown gained notoriety in 1995 for her involvement with English actor and film producer Hugh Grant.

The Ajacan Mission, a failed attempt by Spanish Jesuit priests to bring Christianity to the Native Americans of the Virginia Peninsula, predated the 1607 establishment of Jamestown by about 36 years.

Spain or Espana has the country code top-level internet domain of .es.

The line Doesn’t have a point of view is a line that comes from the Beatles song Nowhere Man from their album Rubber Soul released 3 December 1965 after being recorded in the EMI Studios, London.

The Syrian village of Deir al-Bukht, Monastery of the Bactrian Camel, was so named because the eighth-century Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik kept a bactrian camel at the site.

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