Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Trivia Bits 30 July

 

Pinot gris is a white wine grape variety of the species Vitis vinifera.

The two Hindu fasting days Putrada Ekadashi and Putrada Ekadashi are both devoted to the goal of acquiring a son.

Australian lawyer, judge and South Australian Governor from 1991–1996, Dame Roma Mitchell, was the first female governor of an Australian State.

It was under the pseudonym of Acton Bell that Anne Bronte’s 1848 novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was published.

American thoroughbred racehorse named Cigar won the 1996 inaugural Dubai World Cup by less than 1 length taking the world's richest horse race with a $5,000,000 purse.

At 4,892 metres (16,050 ft), the highest point in Antarctica is Mount Vinson Massif lying in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains.

US President Lyndon Johnson announced his hiring of Gerri Whittington, the first African-American White House secretary, by arranging for her to appear on the TV game show What's My Line on January 19, 1964.

A male bee is called a drone which develops from eggs that have not been fertilized and they cannot sting.

The subject of the 2012 musical Viva Forever is the 1990’s female group The Spice Girls.

The Olympic Games have been held in Los Angeles in 1932 and 1984.

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