Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Trivia Bits 29 October

 

Jaq Gus

Jaq and Gus (pictured) are mice from the animated movie Cinderella the 1950 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney which was twelfth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series being released on February 15, 1950.

The mineral collection of British mineral collector and botanist Lady Clive, a pioneer among female rock collectors, is one of the most important historic mineral collections at the National Museum Wales.

The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901 being awarded to two prominent figures in the growing peace movement around the end of the 19th century - Frédéric Passy, co-founder of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and Henry Dunant the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

A tegestologist collects coasters, drink coasters, or beer mats used to protect the surface of a table or any other surface where the user might place their beverage.

At 12,095 feet (3,687 m) in elevation, Colorado's Independence Pass is the highest paved crossing of the Continental Divide in the United States.

Datum is the plural of the word data.

The professional Twent20 cricket league of Bangladesh has the initials BPL - Bangladesh Premier League which had its first tournament in 2012.

In the popular 1965 American comedy television series Get Smart, CONTROL is a spy agency founded at the beginning of the 20th century by Harold Harmon Hargrade, a career officer in the United States Navy's N-2 (Intelligence) Branch and served as the first Chief of CONTROL but the current The Chief, whose first name is Thaddeus, is played by Edward Platt with CPNTROL’s main spy being Maxwell Smart, code number Agent 86 portrayed by Don Adams.

The warthog is a wild member of the pig family (Suidae) found in grassland, savannah, and woodland in sub-Saharan Africa with a diet that is omnivorous.

The oblong rocksnail, which is endemic to the Cahaba River, Alabama United States, was last collected in 1933, declared extinct in 2000, and rediscovered in 2011.

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