Saturday, May 31, 2014

Trivia Bits 31 May

 

In 1986 the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany, New York, hosted a historic Palm Sunday reconciliation service between Christians and Jews.

Hornets belong to the animal family of Vespidae – wasps.

Yadira Silva, who twice represented Mexico in the Olympic Games of 2008 and 2012 in table tennis, was born in Cuba in 1985.

The 1974 Sci-fi comedy Dark Stars was directed by John Carpenter and starred Dan O'Bannon, Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm and Dre Pahich.

Australian swimmer, Stephanie Rice won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2009.

Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities and was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud in 1836.

Developed in 1928, a Geiger counter measures radiation levels and has a wide and prominent use as a hand-held radiation survey instrument.

In relation to professional wrestling, TNA stands for Total Nonstop Action.

An Australian sitcom All Together Now was broadcast between 1991 and 1993 with a premise that involved an ageing rocker trying to maintain his music career while living with his son and daughter.

The two accepted plurals of the word Aquarium are Aquariums and Aquaria.

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