Trivia Bits 21 March

 

Chuckwalla (pictured) are large lizards found primarily in arid regions of the south-western United States and northern Mexico.  

The hit song Karma Chameleon was a song from Culture Club’s second album Colour by Numbers released in October 1983 on the Virgin label.

Gelatine is one of the main ingredients of panna cotta which is an Italian dessert made by simmering together cream, milk and sugar, mixing this with gelatine, and letting it cool until set.

Whaam! is a 1963 painting by American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein who worked along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist.

Australian actor and musician Jesse Spencer stars as Matthew Casey in the American television drama series Chicago Fire which follows the lives of the fire-fighters and paramedics working at the Chicago Fire Department at the firehouse of Engine 51, Truck 81, Squad 3, Ambulance 61 and Battalion 25.

A collection of 981 texts known as the The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered at Khirbet Qumran in the disputed territory of the West Bank between 1946 and 1956.

The metric unit for power is the watt named after the Scottish engineer James Watt.

Mental Notes was the 1975 debut album of the New Zealand band Split Enz featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn.

A Roman inscription at the Syrian town of Darkush on the Orontes River attests to the existence of a shipbuilding industry for river-going boats in the town and also has the remains of an ancient bridge.

Updown Court is a Californian style residence in the village of Windlesham in Surrey, England with the 103-room mansion having 58 acres (230,000 m2) of landscaped gardens and private woodland. In 2005, the most expensive private home on the market anywhere in the world having been listed for sale with Savills and Hamptons International for in excess of £70 million (US$138 million).