Trivia Bits 11 December

 

• Apera is the new name for what was originally known in Australia as sherry.
• Samphire is commonly used to describe plants from the Australian genus of succulent coastal plants.
• The train that travels from Capetown to Durban is known as The Blue Train, a dedicated five star luxury passenger train travelling in Southern Africa.
• The Yellowstone Supervolcano is the largest volcano in the world.
• Nuuk is the capital of Greenland.
• Jazzman Glen Miller’s exact time and place of death is unknown as he went missing in World War II.
• English poet, Robert Graves,was severely wounded on the Somne in World War I and wrote a frank autobiography Goodbye To All in 1929.
• The longest serving presenter of the Australian children’s TV Show Playschool is Benita.
• All the following are Australian innovations – Chiko Roll, plastic bank notes, dual flush toilet and wine casks.
• The Lewis Carroll book Alice in Wonderland was banned in China because the animals speaking put them on the same level as humans.
• If you have the affliction Aeroacrophobia you fear open high spaces.
• Man made place Las Vegas, Nevada appears brightest from space.
• Soviet ballet sensation, Rudolf Nureyev, sought political asylum in 1961 to defect to the West.
• According to folklore, one nap equals 40 winks.
• Because of their levels of radioactivity, the 1890’s papers and cookbook of Polish born physicist Marie Curie are still kept in lead-lined boxes.