Friday, January 9, 2015

Trivia Bits 09 January

 

Complete & Unbelievable The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul

Released on October 15, 1966, Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul (cover pictured) the fifth studio album by American soul singer-songwriter Otis Redding's and was the last solo studio album released before his 1966 death.

2011 American science fiction drama television series Terra Nova, initially set in A.D. 2149, follows the Shannon family as they travel 85 million years into the past to an Earth of a parallel universe.

The popular 2013 mobile game Flappy Bird was developed by Vietnam-based developer Nguyễn Hà Đông.

David Fincher was nominated for a Best Director Oscar for his 2010 movie The Social Network starring stars Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, along with Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin and Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker.

The Quebec Bridge (Pont de Québec in French) is a road, rail and pedestrian bridge across the lower Saint Lawrence River is the longest cantilever bridge span in the world and was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1995.

Landing in Mirabel International Airport you would be in the Canadian city of Montreal with the predominant role of the airport being cargo flights but it is also home to MEDEVAC and general aviation flights as well as being a manufacturing base for Bombardier Aerospace.

A5 is the size of paper that half of the more common A4 sheets with an international A4 standard paper size of 210 × 297 mm.

The tsunami triggered by the 1979 Tumaco earthquake with the epicentre between Ecuador and Colombia, near the port city of Tumaco, coincided with low tide, greatly reducing the area inundated and the likelihood of a far higher death toll.

South American countries, Bolivia and Paraguay, fought in the Chaco War of 1932–1935 over control of the northern part of the Gran Chaco region (known as Chaco Boreal) of South America, which was thought to be rich in oil.

The characters Mock Turtle, Gryphon and Bill the Lizard were created by writer Lewis Carroll his 1865 popular book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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