Trivia Bits 13 July

 

The Latin word for wheel is rota.

South African novelist, J M Coetzee, won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. His 1983 Booker Prize-winning novel was Life & Times of Michael K.

The cycling term maillot jaune means Yellow Jersey in English being awarded at the Tour de France for the rider for finishing all stages in fastest combined time.

By the end of the Third Siege of Gibraltar in 1333, the city's inhabitants were reduced to eating their shoes because the town's governor had stolen the money meant to pay for food.

The remote Pacific archipelago of Galapagos has been extensively imaged by Google.

American mammalogist and pathologist Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr., 1875-1942, published more than 160 papers during the course of his career.

The French term fruits de mer means fruits of the sea – mixed seafood.

The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was responsible for American weights and measures from 1836 until the establishment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1901.

In the 1889–90 Currie Cup, Charlie Finlason was made to bat last for the Transvaal cricket team because he had criticised the team's captain in the press.

Denver is the capital of the American state of Colorado.

The Museum of Asian Art in Dahlem, Germany houses some 20,000 Asian artifacts, making it one of the largest museums of ancient Asian art in the world.

William George Perks is a British musician better known as Bill Wyman best known as the bassist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1993.

American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer Adam Sandler plays Lenny Feder in the Grown Ups movie series

The 1797 poem Kubla Khan, eventually published in 1816, was written by English poet, literary critic and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Of the two main islands Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad is the largest.

The extreme points of the United Kingdom include Out Stack as the northernmost, Rockall as the westernmost, The Lizard as the southernmost and Lowestoft Ness as the easternmost.

Ellen Page started her acting career at age 10 on the Canadian TV series Pit Pony.

News of the conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on 29 may 1953 came to the outside world by a runner bearing a coded message.

An Encephalization quotient deals with the brain of humans and animals and measures mass and size.

Drexel 4041 is a 17th century British music manuscript commonplace book described as "a treasure-house of early seventeenth-century song and dramatic lyric worthy of the attention of any student of seventeenth-century literature and drama." It is also a major source for the work of English composer William Lawes and belongs to the New York Public Library as part of the Drexel Collection.