Monday, March 9, 2015

Trivia Bits 09 March

 

 television series Arrow

Oliver Queen (played by Stephen Amell), John Diggle (played by David Ramsey) and Quentin Lance (played by Paul Blackthorne) are characters from the 2012 American television series Arrow (poster pictured).

Lithuania's name was recorded for the first time in a 9 March 1009 story of Saint Bruno recorded in the Quedlinburg Chronicle by its Latinized Slavic name form Litua.

Former Australian professional female tennis player Alicia Molik was born in the Australian city of Adelaide and won two grand slam doubles titles, at the Australian Open in 2005 and the French Open in 2007.

Canadian actress Sarah Chalke played Dr Elliot Reid, intern and later private practice physician, in the American medical comedy-drama television series Scrubs which ran from 2001 to 2010.

Giggle and Hoot, a 2010 TV programme for the Australian children's channel ABC2, depicts of the adventures of Jimmy Giggle, and his best friend Hoot the owl.

Inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2009, country singer Carrie Underwood, who has no formal training in voice or singing, graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a degree in journalism on May 6, 2006.

Formed in 1936, Aer Lingus is the national flag carrier of the European country of Ireland and operates a fleet of mostly Airbus aircraft serving Europe, North Africa, Turkey and the USA.

Olympus Mons, as at January 2014, was the highest known volcano in our solar system on the planet of Mars with a height of nearly 22 km (14 mi) almost three times as tall as Mount Everest's height above sea level.

German opera with spoken dialogue in two acts Fidelio is the only opera by Ludwig van Beethoven and was first produced in a three-act version at Vienna's Theater an der Wien, on 20 November 1805.

Maratelli and carnaroli, native to the Asigliano Vercellese province of Vercelli northern Italy, are varieties of rice.

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