Thursday, July 31, 2014

Trivia Bits 31 July

 

Founded in 1863, Broadmoor Hospital is the most famous mental institution in England a high-security psychiatric hospital at Crowthorne in the Borough of Bracknell Forest in Berkshire, England previously known as the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.

Gouger Street in Adelaide South Australia is named after Robert Gouger who was one of the founders of South Australia and colonial secretary.

The US Open tennis tournament is played at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre in Flushing Meadows, a public park in New York City.

The Manhattan Project in World War II produced the atomic bomb and was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.

The term caveat emptor means “let the buyer beware”. Under the principle of caveat emptor, the buyer could not recover damages from the seller for defects on the property that rendered the property unfit for ordinary purposes. The only exception was if the seller actively concealed latent defects or otherwise made material misrepresentations amounting to fraud.

In Cricket, a googly is a delivery bowled by a wrist spinner which looks as if it will break one way but in fact goes the other.

The Remarkable Rocks are located in the Flinders Chase National Park on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

The yobidashi serves as a Japanese sumo wrestler's handyman, promoter and assistant and the one who calls a professional sumo wrestler to the wrestling ring immediately prior to his bout.

An epee is a weapon similar to the dueling sword, the smallsword, itself descended from the rapier, used in sport fencing. Épée is French for "sword".

The longest nerve in the human body is the Sciatic nerve that runs from the lower back and runs through the buttock and down the lower limbs.

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