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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2012
Tim Harper was a campus reporter for the Drake University Times-Delphic in Iowa, when he broke the biggest story of his career on Sept. 17, 1969. Except that none of it was true. That year, Paul McCartney was out of the public eye, as he mulled the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Henry James proofread the galleys for the 1903 edition of "The Ambassadors," which had been serialized in North American Review. Unfortunately, NAR had edited it down, and James wanted to restore the original version for the book. In the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 16, 2012
British post-punk group Joy Division's music wasn't especially joyful. And the origin of the name is even less so. As the story goes, the Nazis plucked the prettiest women from concentration camps and employed them in brothels for preferred soldiers.…Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Before Mickey Mouse — and before he knew much about intellectual property laws — Walt Disney created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1928 for Universal. When he and Universal parted company, Disney lost Oswald, which always rankled the …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for Saturday, January 2Spoken in Hong Kong and Macao, as well as in much of China's south, Cantonese is also the most commonly spoken version of Chinese heard overseas, mostly because people from Hong Kong could more easily emigrate to other countries when the city was run by the British. Mandarin, however, is the dialect spoken in the north, especially in Beijing, and this is China's official language. In pro wrestling, kayfabe is the code by which everything is faked, but by which you never talk about it being faked. Wrestlers are divided between villainous heels and heroic faces, who feud as part of elaborate storylines called angles. Sometimes, this backfires. The feud between Ric Flair and Mick Foley became so heated that Flair once punched Foley in the ear, for real.
Whether it's in the black or in the red, what company will always be Big Blue? A) Apple B) IBM C) Microsoft D) Xerox Previous answer: Somebody who is sesquipedalian likes big words. 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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