Monday, May 12, 2014

Trivia Bits 12 May

 

The Northern Territory rock formation Karlu Karlu (Karlwe Karlwe) is better known as the Devil’s Marbles.

The type of alcohol present in alcoholic drinks is ethanol.

The Backbone Rock Tunnel, only 22 ft or 6.7 metres long, constructed in 1901 by the Beaver Dam Railroad of Tennessee was originally too low for trains to pass through with a middle section hand-chiselled out to enable the train's smoke stack to pass through.

Gaining fame as Nurse Carol Hathaway in the TV series ER was Julianna Margulies from 1994 to 2000. In 2009 she took the lead role of Alicia Florrick in the American legal drama The Good Wife.

It is the US state of New York that the borough of Yonkers can be found.

A male bee is known as a drone and developed from eggs that have not been fertilized, and cannot sting.

Members of the BRICS economic group are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa all developing or newly industrialised countries are distinguished by their large, fast-growing economies.

A lake in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia, Lake Titicaca is by volume of water the largest lake in South America.

Paws is an independent 1997 Australian family film released on 25 September 1997 starring a young Heath Ledger.

In the 2010 American romantic comedy film Sex and the City 2, Abu Dhabi was the destination for the friend’s luxury vacation.

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