Monday, June 22, 2015

Trivia Bits 22 June

 

Queen Victoria coronation 

The coronation of Queen Victoria (pictured) as Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was on 20 June 1837 and from 1 May 1876 she used the additional title of Empress of India.

Playing singer June Carter in the 2005 American biographical drama movie Walk the Line was Reece Witherspoon and was based on the early life and career of country music artist Johnny Cash played by Joaquin Phoenix.

Mascarpone is an Italian cheese made from cream, is one of the main ingredients in the modern Italian dessert known as Tiramisu, and is sometimes used instead of butter or Parmesan cheese to thicken and enrich risottos.

Ough can be pronounced in eight different ways - the following sentence contains them all: A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.

The linen bandages that were used to wrap Egyptian mummies averaged 1,000 yards (9144.0m) in length.

In the board game of Chess it is possible to win a Brilliancy Prize at a tournament.

English band Culture Club released their debut album Kissing to be Clever on 4 October 1982 on the Virgin label with the album anchored by the international hit Do You Really Want to Hurt Me.

Landlocked country located in western-central South America, the Unitary presidential constitutional republic of Bolivia, the capital being Sucre, declared Independence from Spain on 6 August 1825 which was recognized on 21 July 1847 and their current constitution accepted on 7 February 2009.

At the age of 110 a person is considered to be a supercentenarian with the term supercentenarian having been in existence since at least the 19th Century.

In 1962, the Mashed Potato, the Loco-Motion, the Frug, the Monkey, and the Funky Chicken were popular dances.

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