Saturday, June 28, 2014

Trivia Bits 28 June

 

The first vessel to complete a submerged transit to the North Pole was the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) who completed transit on 3 August 1958. The USS Nautilus (SSN-571) the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine.

Choux pastry is used to make éclairs in which the pastry is filled with a vanilla-, coffee- or chocolate-flavoured custard (crème pâtissière), or with whipped cream and then iced with fondant icing.

Titan is the largest satellite of the planet Saturn, is known to have a dense atmosphere and is the sixth ellipsoidal moon from Saturn.

Shards of the Throne is the second expansion to the board game Twilight Imperium. a strategy board game first released in 1998 and is in its third edition, released in 2005, with two expansions - Shattered Empire released on December 12, 2006, and Shards of the Throne released on May 27, 2011.

A zither is a stringed instrument most commonly found in mid Europe, the southern regions of Germany, alpine Europe and East Asian cultures, including China. It is also often known as a sitar.

The South American seaport of Valparaiso is in Chile.

The Siege of Malta was a military campaign in the Mediterranean Theatre of the Second World War from 1940 to 1942 resulting in the loss of 1,493 civilian lives 5,524 private dwellings destroyed, 9,925 damaged but repairable, and 14,225 damaged by bomb blast. In addition 111 churches, 50 hospitals, institutions or colleges, 36 theatres, clubs, government offices, banks, factories, flour mills and other commercial buildings suffered destruction or damage — a total of 30,000 buildings in all.

Hawaii is in the Pacific Ocean and is the most recent of the 50 U.S. states having joined the Union on August 21, 1959.

2013 British-American historical drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup was directed by Steve McQueen and starred Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northu with Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt and Alfre Woodard featured in supporting roles.

The largest desert in Australia is The Great Victoria Desert which covers an area of 348,750 square kilometres (134,650 sq mi) from the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia to the Gawler Ranges in South Australia.

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