Sunday, May 25, 2014

Trivia Bits 25 May

 

The Bengali prayer song Khandana Bhava–Bandhana was composed in 1898 by Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda.

Pediophobia is a fear of dolls.

New Zealand politician Esme Tombleson (1917-2010) had a career that covered reciting Shakespeare, ballet, civil service, farming, membership of the New Zealand Parliament, and MS advocacy.

Cabbage is a typical ingredient in the following dishes - borscht, coleslaw, sauerkraut and kimchi.

American dramatized court TV series Perry Mason ran from September 1957 to May 1966 with the title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, a fictional Los Angeles defence attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner.

The University of Cambridge was established growing out of an association of scholars that was formed in 1209, early records suggest, by scholars leaving Oxford after a dispute with townsfolk. The two "ancient universities" have many common features and are often jointly referred to as Oxbridge.

The Incas referred to gold as the sweat of the sun.

In 1998, New Zealand recording artist, known for his work in Split Enz and frontman for Crowded House, Neil Finn released his solo album Try Whistling This.

The song When a Man Loves a Woman was first recorded and released by Percy Sledge in 1996.

Caledonia is the Latin name for the UK constituent country of Scotland during the Iron Age and Roman eras.

The Good Life is a British sitcom produced by the BBC that ran from 1975 to 1978, that dealt with the midlife crisis faced by Tom Good, a 40-year-old London plastics designer, the joys and miseries he and his wife Barbara experience when they attempt to escape modern commercial living by "becoming totally self-sufficient" in their home in Surbiton and also featured Penelope Keith as Margot Leadbetter (née Sturgess) and Paul Eddington as Jeremy "Jerry" Leadbetter.

Australia and New Zealand hosted the 2013 FIBA Oceania Championships and were qualification events for the 2014 FIBA Men's Basketball World Cup, Spain.

The 2013 movie The Bling Ring was directed by Sofia Coppola and starred Katie Chang, Israel Broussard and Emma Watson.

In Roman Mythology, the Goddess of Peace was Pax who was recognized as a goddess during the rule of Augustus and said to be the daughter of Jupiter and Iustitia.

To help keep music in time, a device called a metronome emits a regular clicking sound.

In 1887, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the first leader of the USSR and the government that took over Russia in 1917, was thrown out of Kazan State University because he protested against the Tsar who was the king of the Russian Empire.

The Syrian village of al-Ziyarah has been identified as the ancient Aramaean town of "Ziara"

The main liquor used in a margarita is tequila.

Paul Eddington was an English actor best known for playing Jim Hacker in the popular television sitcoms of 1980 Yes Minister and of 1986 Yes, Prime Minister.

Sudha Varghese established in 2005 the Prerna schools to educate Musahar girls of Bihar, deemed the "untouchables" in the caste system in India.

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