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Wednesday, November 25
Mortified by reports of famine in Ethiopia, Bob Geldof and Ultravox's Midge Ure wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas," and 25 years ago today, some of Britain's top stars recorded the song at Trevor Horn's SARM West studio. Bob George flew …Read more.
Tuesday, November 24
It was 150 years ago today that Charles Darwin saw the publication of "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," which explained evolution and made possible another century of scientific advances. Darwin dawdled considerably …Read more.
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 23
Monday, November 23
When he was 13, Roald Dahl got a chance to be a taste-tester for a focus group at Cadbury, along with his classmates at Repton in Darbyshire. At the time, Cadbury and Rowntree engaged in bitter corporate espionage. It all …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for October 23You occasionally get people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed on government grounds. Usually, they're insisting on the wrong 10, at least if you're Catholic. Catholics edit the Protestant Second Commandment, with that business about false idols, and instead split the Tenth Commandment in two, instead. Oddly, in Mark 10:19, when Jesus says, "Thou knowest the commandments," his list skips four of them, including the one about graven images. Scriptwriter Stirling Silliphant merged two novels, "The Tower" by Richard Martin Stern and "The Glass Inferno" by Thomas Scortia and Frank Robinson, to create his script for "The Towering Inferno." Another mash-up trick with the billing appeased two titanic rivals. Neither Steve McQueen nor Paul Newman would give up top billing, so one name is higher up but further left. The 100th episode of "Frasier," aired in November 1997, was filmed on location in what city, where the show was set? A) Cincinnati B) Minneapolis C) San Francisco D) Seattle Previous answer: Muhammad is the most common first name in the world. The Chinese name Lee is the most common surname. TRIVIA FANS: Send the trivia questions you've always wanted answered, or original TriviaBits ideas of your own, with your full name and hometown, to Paul Paquet at paul@triviahalloffame.com or visit him online at www.triviahalloffame.com. Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s, and has written roughly 100,000 questions. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or e-mail him at paul@triviahalloffame.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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