FACT FOOD #1564
Nottingham Forest, courtesy of their second consecutive win at the European Cup became the first football club to win more European Cup titles than their first division league title –
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FACT FOOD #1563
Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships is a bestseller from the 1960s written by Eric Berne, a psychiatrist. In 1969, Joe South penned the lyrics for the song
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FACT FOOD #1562
One Hour With You is a 1932 movie that was adapted from the play Only a Dream by Lothar Schmidt and its 1924 musical The Marriage Circle. The movie was
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FACT FOOD #1561
At the 1953 Belgian Grand Prix, the Maseratis were in a position to challenge the dominant Ferraris. With 1-2 at the start, the Argentine duo of Fangio and Gonzalez maintained
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FACT FOOD #1560
On April 9, 1731, an English sailor Robert Jenkins was reputedly cut off by a Spanish captain off Havana, Cuba. The incident triggered a series of hostilities that resulted in
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FACT FOOD #1559
In 2003, the 1965 novel Dune was rated as the world’s best-selling science fiction novel. The success of this novel paved way for Frank Herbert to write five sequels –
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Love, Sex and War Quiz!
In 2018, I hosted a 44-question quiz entirely on the theme – Love, Sex and War on Valentine’s Day! A year later, sharing ten questions from the quiz. Let’s get
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FACT FOOD #1558
Monsieur Bergeret is a 1901 French novel written by Anatole France. The plot was inspired by the real-life incidents of the Dreyfus affair – about Alfred Dreyfus, a French army
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FACT FOOD #1557
After winning the league title, Nottingham Forest’s manager Brian Clough spent a major part of the winning money on buying the forward Trevor Francis from Birmingham City. The move was
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FACT FOOD #1556
The songwriter Bobby Russell was nominated twice and won at the 1968 Grammy Awards – Best Song of the Year and Best Country Song. O.C. Smith’s version of Little Green
