Friday, March 20, 2015

Trivia Bits 20 March

 

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Created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions, Donald Fauntleroy Duck or Donald Duck (pictured) is a funny animal cartoon whose rich uncle was Uncle Scrooge also known as the stingy Scrooge McDuck the richest duck in the world.

Dragoon, Australian Saddleback Tumble and German Nun are types of Pigeons.

In late December 2013, Tropical Cyclone Christine hit the Australian state of Western Australia making landfall on the Pilbara coast nearly halfway between the major towns of Karratha and Port Hedland as a category 3 cyclone on midnight of 31 December 2013.

The Canary Islands are a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara.

Famous for its annual three-day outdoor music festival, the town of Meredith is located in the Australian state of Victoria during which The Meredith Gift, a nude running race, with the chance to win The Golden Jocks trophy is held.

The Queen Charlotte Fault is Canada’s equivalent to the San Andreas Fault and is an active transform fault, located between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate.

Japanese racing driver Hideo Fukuyama was the first Japanese driver to qualify for a NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship race.

Topping the medal count at the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics was the Soviet Union with a total of 195 medals, including 80 gold, 69 silver and 46 bronze.

Chartered in 1937, The Chicago Teachers Union was formed after unpaid teachers revolted against Chicago banks during the Great Depression.

Hortus deliciarum, Latin for Garden of Delights, was a medieval illuminated encyclopedia written between 1167 and 1185 to teach about everything, including the torments of hell compiled by Herrad of Landsberg at the Hohenburg Abbey in Alsace.

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