Trivia Bits 28 October

 

The Punto is a supermini car produced by the Italian manufacturer Fiat since 1993, spanning over three generations. (Punto 1993 model pictured)

Poczta Królewiecka, published 1718–20 in Królewiec (Königsberg), was the second oldest Polish newspaper.

Thomas Mark Harmon better known as Mark Harmon is an American television and movie, and stage actor who since 2003 has starred as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the hit series NCIS which revolves around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service conducting criminal investigations involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.

The Age of Mammals is referred to as the Cenozoic era which began 65 million years ago because the extinction of many groups allowed mammals to greatly diversify.

Indian born proprietor of Café Spice Namasté and a celebrity television chef, Cyrus Todiwala cooked country captain, a curried chicken and rice dish, which is popular in the Southern United States, for Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh as part of the 2012 Diamond Jubilee celebrations at Kirishna Avanti School in Harrow.

A grey sandstone wall is all that remains of Caludon Castle in Coventry, in the West Midlands of England, whose history stretches back to pre-Norman times, was a large house which became the property of the Earl of Chester after the conquest.

Winning the 2014 Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix was British Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton racing for the Mercedes AMG team.

Beginning with a narrative from Captain Walton, is the 1818 famous novel Frankenstein written by British author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

The Itchy & Scratchy Show is a fictional animated television series featured in the animated television series The Simpsons as a part of The Krusty the Clown Show, watched regularly by Bart and Lisa Simpson and first appeared in The Simpsons in 1990.

According to her memoirs, African American preacher and spiritual autobiographer Zilphia Elaw gave over a thousand sermons in Victorian Britain from the summer of 1840 until at least 1845, penning Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, and Ministerial Travels and Labours of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, an American Female of Colour.