Trivia Bits 08 June

 

Chan Kong-sang is the birth name of well-known action film star Jackie Chan.

William Hartnell was the first actor to play the Dr in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.

On Vaikuntha Chaturdashi, a Hindu festival day, worshippers offer earthen lamps and cotton wicks to Shiva and Vishnu at the Varanasi Shiva Temple.

Hoot’s best owl friend in the 2010 Australian children’s TV programme Giggle and Hoot is Hootabelle.

Samuel L Clemens is better known by his pen name of Mark Twain.

In order to save the Rollstone Boulder from being demolished, it was exploded and re-assembled near Fitchburg's Upper Common in Massachusetts US in 1929.

Filth is a 2013 British crime comedy-drama based on Irvine Welsh's novel of the same name starring James McAvoy, Imogen Poots and Jamie Bell.

Ovine refers to sheep, Sheep figure in many mythologies — such as the Golden Fleece —and major religions, especially the Abrahamic traditions. In both ancient and modern religious ritual, sheep are used as sacrificial animals.

The Puffin is informally known as the sea parrot.

Alfred Deakin, Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later the second Prime Minister of Australia. He was Prime Minister a total of three times – in 1903, 1905 and 1910.

Salem residents John and Elizabeth Proctor feature in the 1953 play The Crucible by the American playwright Arthur Miller and are accused in witchcraft.

In 1906, ties between England and Spain were sufficiently strong that King Edward VII and King Alfonso XIII became joint patrons of the Royal Calpe Hunt in Campo de Gibraltar area of Spain.

The Latin phrase tabula rasa means scraped tablet or blank slate.

A samovar is a heated metal container traditionally used to heat and boil water in and around Russia, as well as in other Central, South-Eastern, Eastern European countries, Kashmir and in the Middle-East. Since the heated water is typically used to make tea, many samovars have a ring-shaped attachment around the chimney to hold and heat a teapot filled with tea concentrate.

Pixie, rattail and bangs are types of hairstyles.

The first known Europeans to sight New Zealand in 1642 included the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman who sighted 'a large land, uplifted high' which may have been the peaks of the Paparoa Range behind Punakaiki.

Tamu Massif, the largest known volcano on earth, is on the floor of the Pacific Ocean located in the Shatsky Rise about 1,600 km (990 mi) east of Japan.

Sharing land borders with Oman and Saudi Arabia are United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

Jolene is the title of a song written and performed by American country music artist Dolly Parton and was released in October 1973 as the first single and title from her album Jolene.

Playing Lieutenant Horatio Crane in the TV series CSI: Miami was American actor and producer David Caruso.