Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Trivia Bits 29 July

 

DCI John Barnaby is the lead character in the English television drama series Midsomer Murders and is played by English actor Neil Dudgeon.

Spanish is the main language spoken in the South American country of Bolivia.

Matthew Flinders mapped the South Australian coastline from the ship HMS Investigator in 1802 and was the first ship to circumnavigate Australia.

The chemical found in chili’s that causes a burning sensation when eaten is Capsaicin.

The visit of King George IV to Scotland in 1822 led to the reinvigoration of the kilt and tartan as symbols of Scottish national identity as George IV wore the kilt and tartan during the first visit of a reigning monarch to Scotland since 1650.

Numerically, there are twenty items in a score.

The C60 molecule is better known as Buckminsterfullerene or buckyball. It has a cage-like fused-ring structure (Truncated icosahedron) which resembles a soccer ball, made of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons, with a carbon atom at each vertex of each polygon and a bond along each polygon edge.

The Galilean moons orbit the planet of Jupiter.

A lagerphone is a type of homemade traditional English percussion instrument, widely used in folk music. This instrument is constructed from a stout pole with metal "jingles", commonly beer-bottle tops, are fastened at intervals along the shaft.

The British band Oasis released the 1995 album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory.

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