Monday, August 25, 2014

Trivia Bits 25 August

 

Michel Roux

French-born chef and restaurateur Michel Roux (pictured), who went on to open the first restaurant to win three Michelin stars in Britain, Le Gavroche (The Urchin) at 43 Upper Brook Street in Mayfair, London, was awarded the North Africa Security and Order Operations Commemorative Medal whilst enlisted in the French forces in Algeria.

Written by British Masters of Wine Jancis Robinson and Julia Harding in collaboration with Swiss grape geneticist Dr. José Vouillamoz, the 2012 book Wine Grapes details the history of 1,368 varieties including Zinfandel's origins as a Croatian grape known as Tribidrag.

The Limestone Coast is a popular tourist region in the Australian state of South Australia with the area supporting farming, viticulture, forestry and tourism.

In the animated movie Ice Age: Continental Drift the voice of Manny the Mammoth is voiced by American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and voice actor, Ray Romano.

Kettering Town goalkeeper Scott Endersby is credited with being the youngest footballer to play in the FA Cup proper at the age of 15 in 1977.

Between 2002 and 2006 Cynthia McKinney, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton tried to release sealed FBI files on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the 2013 movie Carrie, the title role was played by American actress Chloe Grace Moretz.

The first modern Olympiad was held in Athens in 1896. 484 contestants from 13 nations participated.

The famous ancient Greek statue Venus de Milo, created sometime between 130 and 100 BC, is on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

English engineer, mathematician and inventor Hertha Ayrton's 1902 candidature to be the first woman elected Fellow of the Royal Society was turned down on the basis that as a married woman she had no standing in law.

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