The trivia questions are fairly asked and fairly answered (bet you didn't know that the baseball bat Wendy Torrance used in The Shining bore Carl Yastrzemski's signature; or that Benjamin Franklin first suggested daylight saving time, or that the Wizard of Oz's full name was Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs -- spelling out OZPINHEAD. Trivia ... shouldn't really be called 'trivia,'" [Ken Jennings] writes. "Facts about history, geography, books, movies, music -- this is the stuff that used to be called good old-fashioned 'general knowledge,' the stuff, that everybody was supposed to remember from school. First, Jennings asserts that trivia did not come into its own until the 20th century. That probably does not give enough credit to the Robert Burton'...
IMAGINE the shock wave that went through the room when the 2004 Jackson-Triggs Okanagan Estate Proprietors' Grand Reserve Shiraz received the award for world's Best Shiraz/Syrah at London's 2006 International Wine and Spirits Competition. The climate and geography of Canadian wine country parallels other renowned regions. The Niagara Peninsula, for example, has a cooler climate and limestone soils like those of France's Burgundy region, making for some stellar Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The Okanagan Valley shares the latitude of some German winemaking regions, but harbours much warmer pockets than its cooler European cousin (think Osoyoos, B.C., often the Canadian hot spot). As a result, a lot of the bigger Canadian red wines are being made in the Okanagan. Senior winemaker (and U of M ...
...Some trivia tidbits about wine in Canada. uncorked@mts.net. CA...
... master of arts in the field of physical geography. He was employed from 1993 until 2003 with the Dep...Trivia need not be mentioned. The duty rather, is one of ...
It took a while to get attuned to the New Zealander's accent, so patrons weren't simply being rude when they didn't respond to his questions. They just couldn't understand what he was saying. "Do you have a pet?" sounded like "Do you have a pit? Best described as 45 minutes of girl talk, this piece means to be full of wry zingers and mature wisdom, but it's flimsy and unfocused. Vancouver writer-performer Susan Freedman has an appealing presence, but isn't a strong actor. She throws in a revelation of childhood sexual abuse as casually as she does a riff on digital cameras. The superficial Sixty Four offers a few amusing lines, but doesn't manage to penetrate to either the funnybone or the heart. HH This comedy out of Winnipeg catches the audience up with the heroine, now living in ...
... kinky, cherry-picking fun facts, trivia, and some gasp-inducing pervy practices in her sub..., Germs and Steel, which argues that geography and food sources shaped the modern world, Séguin ...
...It is often seen as a matter of ethnic trivia that "the Chinese built the railroad," but the fac..., 2006," 2006 census, Statistics Canada, geography division, 2007; also, "Immigration to Canada from ...
The book, just over 300 pages, is full of all the information you'll need and has an element of cool as well. One chapter, The dance of Buenos Aires, is all about the tango. "The tango is macho, the tango is strong. It smells of wine and tastes like death." Hmmm. It's not about the destination but all it has to offer," said Jackie Britton, CEO of Off the Beaten Path. "More people want a vacation that takes them beyond the hotel walls. They are no longer satisfied with the all-inclusive approach which consists of Americanized buffet food and an endless supply of liquor. Explore Santiago and visit world-famous wineries in the Mendoza region. Discover the history and architecture of Buenos Aires, the "Paris of South America." Catch the marvels of colourful and elegant neighbourhoods an...
... information, is also full of tips and trivia. It costs $22. Our second giveaway is Back in 6 Ye... includes everything from history, geography, packing tips, tipping, transportation costs, loca...
...--perhaps now abandoned--put history and geography into a division called "Self and Society"; these s... in a chapter entitled "Professing trivia." Too many historians become over-specialized and,...
[Jason Schneider]'s interesting observation here is that the mythic narrative created by Martin Scorcese in his 1976 documentary of the group's farewell concert, The Last Waltz, is told almost exclusively from the perspective of Robbie Robertson, the lead guitarist whose rugged good looks and friendship with the director put him centre stage in the movie, in ways in which he arguably was not in The Band's history. In accessible language, Schneider makes some interesting observations. "[Bob Dylan]," he notes, "had made a point of trying to write songs unlike any that had been written before; [Leonard] Cohen's epiphany was that he himself had written songs of this sort, only he had neglected to set them to music. Perhaps understandably, the Guess Who saga is given short shrift, as their ...
..., and the book is a treasure trove of trivia. The reader comes away, for example, with a fairly... makes it clear Young's change in geography enabled him to have a hugely influential and succe...
... master of arts in the field of physical geography. He was employed from 1993 until 2003 with the Dep...Trivia need not be mentioned. The duty rather, is one of ...
While the old encyclopedia on every bookshelf is a thing of the past, the idea of "all the knowledge" inherent in that magic word "encyclopedia" still carries a certain magic. Take, for example, alighting on the entry on Canada's "greatest novelist" Margaret Laurence, and following the alphabetical bread crumbs to singer Daniel Lavoie, hockey player Reggie "The Rifle" Leach, Leafhopper, visual artist Winston Leathers, Legal Aid and Legislative Building ("on the short list of CBC's Seven Wonders"). How can you not follow your curiosity? Last, there is some regional anger here to supplement the "coming-of-age" pride, notably in the bitter memories of the relocation to the East of Trans-Canada Airlines and the CF-18 scandal, a "defining and nation-changing event in Canadian politics.
...One is geography: the placid plains, the power of those rivers (200...There is ample ore here for the trivia buff: the world's second helicopter (design unfort...
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