Thursday, March 26, 2015

Trivia Bits 26 March

 

Trevi Fountain

 Designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Pietro Bracci, the Trevi Fountain (pictured) in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy stands 26.3 metres (86 ft) high and 49.15 metres (161.3 ft) wide and was finished in 1762.

Englishman John Copley was the oldest person ever to receive an Olympic medal, winning silver at the age of 73 at the London 1948 Summer Olympics in Art competitions with medals being awarded for works of art inspired by sport.

The 1976 song Cocaine by JJ Cale could have an alternate title C17H21NO4.

The character Dr Doolittle from Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, who could speak to animals, was created by British author, trained as a civil engineer, Hugh Lofting who first wrote the story as the author's illustrated letters to children, written from the trenches during the War of 1914 to 1918, when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull.

Each player starts with 15 checkers in a game of Backgammon with excavations at Shahr-e Sukhteh in Iran have shown that the game existed there around 3000 BC.

German track and field athlete, Käthe Krauß won bronze in the 100 metres in the Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics and was on the German women's sprint relay team that set a world record in the heats, but dropped the baton in the final race.

The fragments of Beethoven's music in the soundtrack of black-and-white German film by Mauricio Kagel's 1969 film Ludwig van are modified to imitate the way the deaf composer heard his own work.

Closed in December 30, 2005, the High Roller was a steel roller coaster constructed on top of the Stratosphere Tower, Las Vegas at 909 feet (277 m) over the Las Vegas Strip.

American character actress Barbara Feldon’s most prominent role was that of Agent 99 on the 1960s sitcom Get Smart playing the role for the duration of the show's production from 1965 until 1970, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1968 and 1969.

The second single from U2's 2000 album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, Stuck In a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of with Bono saying the song was inspired by a fictional conversation with his friend Michael Hutchence about suicide.

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