Saturday, April 4, 2015

Trivia Bits 04 April

 

Wallaman Falls

The Girringun National Park, containing Australia’s tallest single drop waterfall is located in Queensland, the Wallaman Falls (pictured) at 268 m, with the park being one of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area series of national parks, and a gazetted World Heritage site. 

Playing on the PGA Tour, Gerry Lester Watson, Jr. also known as Bubba is an American left-handed professional golfer who won the 2014 Masters golf tournament.

In 2013, Bondi Rescue lifeguard Trent Maxwell was named Australian women’s magazine CLEO’s Bachelor of the Year.

English writer and humorist Sue Townsend is best remembered for creating the fictional character of Adrian Mole with the first novel The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ published in 1982.

Actress Isla Fisher got her first big break playing Shannon Reed on the Australian television soap opera Home and Away from 1994 to 1997 for a total of 345 episodes.

Challenger Deep is the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean with a depth of 10,898 to 10,916 m (35,755 to 35,814 ft) by direct measurement from submersibles and is located at the southern end of the Mariana Trench near the Mariana Islands group.

The hobby of collecting autographs is philography with what might be considered the oldest "autograph" is a Sumerian clay table from about 3100 BC which includes the name of the scribe Gar.Ama.

Starring as Rick Deckard in the 1982 cult movie directed by Ridley Scott Blade Runner was Harrison Ford and co-starred Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos.

Vegemite is a dark brown Australian food paste made from leftover brewers' yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives developed by Cyril P. Callister in Melbourne, Victoria in 1922.

The Paris Peace Accords on "Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam" were signed on 27 January 1973.

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