Thursday, December 4, 2014

Trivia Bits 04 December

 

Casablanca

Morocco has its political capital as Rabat, although the largest city is Casablanca (pictured) and is Morocco's chief port and industrial centre and is the setting of the 1942 film of the same name starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

Darwin, the remotest city in Australia, is located at the top of 'The Top End' has had a tough history including being destroyed by heavy bombing in World War II and devastated again by the infamous tropical cyclone Tracy in 1974.

The flag of Mexico is a vertical tricolour of green, white, and red with the national coat of arms featuring the Golden Eagle charged in the centre of the white stripe and was adopted September 16, 1968. The colours of green representing hope, white union and red the blood of heroes.

Although collected in 1958, the fungus Engleromyces sinensis was not described as a new species until 52 years later and is a fungus is known only from China (sinensis, "of China"), where it grows on bamboo culms.

Breaking records since 1979, American Ashrita Furman is a Guinness World Records record-breaker who as of 2012 had set 148 such records, including the record for holding the most Guinness world records.

In 1911, South Australia transferred the Northern Territory to the Australian Federal Government.

In 2006, both Green Day and U2 had a hit with The Saints Are Coming after being the third single by the Scottish punk rock band Skids, featured on their 1979 debut album, Scared to Dance.

First awarded in 1960, The Clio award is presented annually to reward innovation and creative excellence in advertising, design and communication and is named after the Greek goddess Clio, the mythological Muse known as the proclaimer, glorifier and celebrator of history, great deeds and accomplishments.

Commencing in 2007, British television series Inspector George Gently is set in the 1960s and based on the Inspector Gently novels by Alan Hunter with English actor Martin Shaw playing the title role.

2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Michael Roeger has played football, basketball, table tennis and cricket.

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