Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Trivia Bits 21 July

 

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The 2010 debut album by American recording artist Nicki Minaj was Pink Friday (cover pictured) released on November 19, 2010 and debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 375,000 copies in its first week.

In 1914, Lois Weber was the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film when she directed The Merchant of Venice, and she adapted Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes novel for the first ever Tarzan of the Apes film in 1918.

Jalapic is anything that pertains to the Mexican purgative drug from the root of the plant Ipomoea purga.

Ratu Sir Penaia Kanatabatu Ganilau was the first President of Fiji, serving from 8 December 1987 until his death in 1993 after having previously served as Governor-General of Fiji, representing Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Fiji, from 12 February 1983 to 15 October 1987.

The top seed in the 2014 French Open women’s singles tennis tournament was American professional tennis player Serena Williams.

Troy VII is an archaeological layer of Troy associated with the city's destruction during the legendary Trojan War usually dated it to the 12th or 11th centuries BC.

Georgian-British singer Katie Melua agreed to re-record her 2005 song Nine Million Bicycles in response to criticisms from physicist Simon Singh, who described its lyrics as an insult to a century of astronomical progress.

Charles Darwin served as naturalist on the HMS Beagle with the voyage began on 27 December 1831; it lasted almost five years and Darwin spent most of that time on land investigating geology and making natural history collections, while the Beagle surveyed and charted coasts.

Black Ops and Black Ops2 belong to Call of Duty a first-person and third-person shooter video game franchise.

The 1935 original version of Monopoly, subtitled The Fast-Dealing Property Trading Game, was based in the US city of Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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