Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Trivia Bits 13 May

 

The movie The Artist won 5 Oscars in 2012 with the canine star’s name being Uggie.

Ohio's Old Perry County Courthouse, built in 1829, is the oldest building in the former Northwest Territory continually used as a government building.

Vespa is the Italian word for a wasp and also name of an Italian brand of scooter manufactured by Piaggio.

The crustaceans known as giant isopods, related to the shrimp and crabs, which live in the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, can grow up to 45 centimetres long.

Marsala is a sweet, dark, fortified wine that is named after a town in the westernmost part of Sicily in Italy.

The 1982 novel Fly Away Peter was written by Australian author David Malouf.

The island of Borneo is divided between the three countries Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia.

A fume event occurs when cabin air in a pressurized aircraft is contaminated with potentially hazardous chemicals.

Colloquially a Liverpool Kiss is a headbutt to the face.

A simoom is a strong, dry, dust-laden local wind that blows in the Sahara, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and the deserts of Arabian Peninsula.

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