Friday, June 13, 2014

Trivia Bits 13 June

 

Classic 17th century fairy tale by Charles Perrault that features a bad wolf is Little Red Riding Hood which was included in the collection Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals. Tales of Mother Goose (Histoires et contes du temps passé, avec des moralités. Contes de ma mère l'Oye), in 1697, by Charles Perrault.

IKEA is a Swedish company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture being founded in 1943 by a 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad.

The NASA Mars Observer spacecraft was a 1,018-kilogram (2,244 lb) robotic space probe launched on September 25, 1992 to study the Martian surface, atmosphere, climate and magnetic fields.

American celebrity chef, author, and television personality Julia Child was best known in relation to the cuisine of France.

In the TV series Married with Children, Al Bundy played Gridiron or American Football in High school.

Luxembourg is the capital of the country of Luxembourg.

Actor Steve McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for the 1966 movie The Sand Pebbles which co-starred Candice Bergen, Richard Attenborough and Richard Crenna.

Brass is an alloy of the metals copper and zinc.

The Lass of Richmond Hill, said to be one of George III's favourite songs, was written by Leonard McNally an Irish republican revolutionary leader who became a British government double agent. Music was composed by James Hook and was first publicly performed in 1789.

Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia, is Australia’s third largest island.

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