Trivia Bits 27 July

 

The Japanese Snow Monkeys belong to the primate genus Macaque.

The camel with two humps is the Bactrian Camel which lives in the rocky Gobi desert and the grasslands (steppes) of Asia.

The alter egos of Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson belong to Australian comedian, satirist, artist, and author Barry Humphries.

At age 19 after Barry Watson lost his job as a soap opera child star in Days of our Lives, he used to park cars at the House of Blues night club in Los Angeles.

In Dante Alighieri’s epic poem Inferno, there are nine circles of Hell.

The Snellen chart, named after the Dutch ophthalmologist Hermann Snellen who developed the chart in 1862, is used to measure visual acuity.

The largest island in the Channel Islands is Jersey – the other island being Guernsey.

The Almanach de Gotha is a directory of European nobility first published in 1763 by C.W. Ettinger in Gotha at the ducal court of Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, however, when Soviet troops entered Gotha in 1945, they systematically destroyed all archives of the Almanach de Gotha.

The Pontipines are characters from the 2007 TV series In the Night Garden - a BBC children's television series, aimed at children aged from one to four years old.

American actress, singer, and dancer Sutton Foster was pulled from the chorus to replace the leading lady during the 2001 pre-Broadway tryout of Thoroughly Modern Millie revival going on to win the 2002 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her role as Millie Dillmount.

In 1984 the Premier of New South Wales in Australia decided to ban a bout between two women kickboxers citing the Theater and Public Halls Act 1908 relating to preservation of good manners and decorum.

In nautical terms, a jib is a triangular forward staysail.

British writer of both nautical fiction and history, Dudley Pope wrote many of his books aboard a 54-foot wooden yacht named Ramage and is noted for his Lord Ramage series of historical novels.

The song Send in the Clowns comes from the 1973 musical A Little Night Music with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.

Parliament is a collective noun for Owls.

A v-shaped point in the hairline at the centre of the forehead is known as a Widow’s Peak.

The dystopic novel Ape and Essence was written by Aldous Huxley and published in 1948 by Chatto & Windus in the UK and Harper & Brothers in the US.

Green and red are the two colours that feature on the flag of Bangladesh.

The northern Syrian village of Zarzur has been identified as the Bronze Age town of Zuzzura of the Alalakh kingdom.

Zoomusicology studies sounds, vocalizations and the organization of the noisy communications of animals.