Sunday, November 16, 2014

Trivia Bits 16 November

 

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The name of the killer in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller-drama Psycho was Norman Bates played by Anthony Perkins (pictured).

Playing British secret agent James Bond in the official film series for seven films between 1973 and 1985, English actor, Roger Moore, wrote the 2008 autobiography My Word is My Bond: A Memoir.

Narbona Pass in New Mexico is named after Narbona, a Navajo headman killed in 1849 during peace negotiations with the United States.

The Tiananmen Square Massacre took place in Beijing on June 3–4 1989 as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted thousands of casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.

Walter Gropius founded the famous architectural school Bauhaus in 1919 as a merger of the Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts and the Weimar Academy of Fine Art..

South Australian journalist and social reformer Catherine Helen Spence was honoured by appearing on the Australian 2001 Federation $5 note.

In 2010, American singer-songwriter and actress Pink had a hit with the song Raise Your Glass the first single from her first compilation album, Greatest Hits... So Far!!! and celebrated a decade since Pink's debut in 2000 and dedicated to her fans who have been supporting her over the years.

In October 2012, the church choir Chor von St. Bonifatius celebrated 150 years by singing in Wiesbaden, Germany the premiere of a Missa solemnis by Colin Mawby, conducted by Gabriel Dessauer.

Peaceful Easy Feeling was a hit for The Eagles and was the third single from the band's 1972 debut album Eagles with Glenn Frey singing the lead vocal, and Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner completing the three-part harmony.

The first non-European country to host the Winter Olympic Games was the USA in 1932 with the games at Lake Placid, a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States.

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