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Quiz fact of the day – 08.02.2021 Nadia Comaneci

Nadia Comaneci, is a Romanian retired gymnast and a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Comăneci received seven perfect scores and won the gold medals for the balance beam, the uneven bars, and the all-around individual competition an became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic event. At the 1980 Summer…

Quiz fact of the day 07.02.2021-Puerto Williams

Puerto Williams (“Port Williams”) is the city, port and naval base on Navarino Island in Chile. It faces the Beagle Channel. It is capital of the Chilean Antarctic Province, one of four provinces in the Magellan and Chilean Antarctica Region, and administers the communes of Chilean Antarctic Territory and Cabo de Hornos. It has a population of 2,874, including both naval personnel and civilians.…

Quiz fact of the day – 06.02.2021 Quetzals

Quetzals are strikingly colored birds in the trogon family. They are found in forests, especially in humid highlands, with the five species from the genus Pharomachrus being exclusively Neotropical, while a single species, the eared quetzal, Euptilotis neoxenus, is found in Mexico and very locally in the southernmost United States.Quetzals are fairly large (all over 32 cm or 13 inches long),…

Quiz fact of the day 05.02.2021 -Brian Urquhart

Sir Brian Edward Urquhart was a British international civil servant, author and World War II veteran. He played a significant role in the founding of the United Nations. He went on to serve as its Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs. Urquhart was a member of the British diplomatic staff involved in the setting-up of the United Nations in 1945, assisting the Executive Committee…

Quiz fact of the day 04.02.2021 -Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart, American aviator, one of the world’s most celebrated, who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Her disappearance during a flight around the world in 1937 became an enduring mystery, fueling much speculation. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying…

Quiz fact of the day 01.02.2021 – The Manchu

The Manchu, also known as the Manju, are an ethnic group from Manchuria in northern China. The average American probably hasn’t heard of the Manchu, but they’ve definitely seen their influence in film and art. Manchus form the largest branch of the Tungusic peoples and are distributed throughout China, forming the fourth largest ethnic group in the country.They can be found in 31 Chinese…

Quiz fact of the day 02.02.2021 -The Buggles

The Buggles were an English new wave band formed in London in 1977 by singer and bassist Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoffrey Downes. They are best known for their 1979 debut single “Video Killed the Radio Star”, which topped the UK Singles Chart and reached number one in 15 other countries.The duo released their first album, The Age of Plastic, in January 1980 with “Video Killed the Radio Star”…

Quiz fact of the day 01.02.2021 – The Burgundian Wars

The Burgundian Wars (1474–1477) were a conflict between the Burgundian State and the Old Swiss Confederacy and its allies. Open war broke out in 1474, and the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, was defeated three times on the battlefield in the following years and was killed at the Battle of Nancy in 1477. The Duchy of Burgundy and several other Burgundian lands then became part of France, and…

Quoz fact of the day 31.01.2021 -The Chrysler Air Raid Siren

The Chrysler Air Raid Siren (second generation), or known as the Chrysler Bell Victory Siren (first generation) is an outdoor warning siren produced during the Cold War era that has an output of 138 dB(C) at 100 feet (30 m). Built during the World War II and Cold War era from 1952 to 1957 (second generation) by Chrysler, its power plant contained a newly designed FirePower Hemi V8 engine with a…

Quiz fact of the day 30.01.2021 -Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were successful outside of their parent musicals, such as “The Music…

Quiz fact of the day 29.01.2021 -Kiichiro Toyoda

Kiichiro Toyoda was a Japanese businessman and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda. His decision to change Toyoda’s focus from automatic loom manufacture into automobile manufacturing created what would become Toyota Motor Corporation. Kiichiro Toyoda persuaded his brother, who was responsible as head of the family business, to invest in the expansion of Toyoda Loom Works into a…