Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Trivia Bits 24 March

 

Les raboteurs de parquet

French painter Gustave Caillebotte's 1875 painting Les raboteurs de parquet (English title: The Floor Scrapers) (pictured) was rejected by France's most prestigious art exhibition, the Salon, for its vulgar subject matter with the depiction of working-class people in their trade, not fully clothed.

The Greek word agape means love often translated as unconditional love, being one of the Koine Greek words translated into English as love, one which became particularly appropriated in Christian theology as the love of God or Christ for humankind.

1959 British film based on the novel of the same name by John Braine Room at the Top starred Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret and winning Academy Award Best Actress for Signoret and Best Adapted Screenplay for Neil Paterson.

1948 London Olympics British rowing gold medallist Bert Bushnell was involved during the Second World War the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940.

In 1950, Australian Olympic swimmer Garrick Agnew worked his passage from Brisbane to Vancouver in the engine room of a freight ship to attend Ohio State University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science.

In the sport of boxing, you will find a journeyman - a fighter who has adequate skill, , a gatekeeper - a skilful and well-regarded fighter and a tomato can - a fighter with poor or diminished skills.

1975 Australian drama and mystery film directed by Peter Weir Picnic at Hanging Rock starred Anne-Louise Lambert, Helen Morse, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray and Dominic Guard and was adapted from the 1967 novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay.

Praia is the capital of the island country of the Republic of Cape Verde located 570 kilometres (350 miles) off the coast of Western Africa.

Jumbuck is an Australian term for a sheep and was suggested by Edward Morris in 1898: Jumbuck is aboriginal pigeon-English for sheep.

In 2008, an Australian girls' school, Brisbane Girls Grammar School, defeated an American boys' school, Woodberry Forest School, for the United States Invitational Young Physicists Tournament championship which is an annual physics research and debate tournament for high school students.

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