Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Trivia Bits 18 November

 

lady antebellum need you now

Performed by American country music group Lady Antebellum, the lead-off single and title track to their second studio album, Need You Now (cover pictured) , was released on January 26, 2010 and was ranked as the number-one song on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart on the Billboard 2010 year-end list.

Dushanbe is the capital of the central Asian mountainous landlocked country of Tajikistan bordering Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east.

The Book of Mormon, a musical by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone premiered on Broadway in March 2011 winning numerous theatre awards including nine Tony Awards, one of which was for Best Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

In the 1960’s, Albert DeSalvo confessed to being the serial killer known as the Boston Strangler who was of attributed with the murders of 13 women between June 14, 1962 and January 4, 1964 in and near Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Cloud Strife is a main character of the role-playing video game series Final Fantasy first released in 1997.

Taiga, also known as boreal forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces and larches and is the world's largest terrestrial biome covering most of inland Canada and Alaska as well as parts of the extreme northern continental United States.

Playing Jill Taylor in the 1990’s TV sit-com series Home Improvement was American television and film actress Patricia Richardson.

Canadian film director, film producer, deep-sea explorer, screenwriter, and editor James Cameron won the Best Director Oscar for the 1997 movie Titanic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

In the famous folktale, ascribed to Aesop, Androcles and the Lion, Androcles removed a thorn from the paw of the lion.

Crossing the Rubicon is a reference to the historical leader Julius Caesar as the phrase originates with his seizure of power in the Roman Republic in 49 BC and Caesar leading his army across the Rubicon River, crossing from the province of Cisalpine Gaul into Italy – the point of no return.

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