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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.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Today we look at the unhappy history of celebrity stalkers. Robert Bardo became obsessed with young actor Rebecca Schaeffer. He hired a private investigator to find out where she lived and shot her to death, leading the LAPD to set up a Threat …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Some TV and movie stars sing on hit records. Others have criminal records. For example, in 1970, Suzanne Somers was arrested for passing bad checks. Larry King was accused of larceny after siphoning off cash intended to fund the New Orleans DA's …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for Wednesday, September 16Americans on Wheels: Long before Lance Armstrong and his heroic struggle to become a Tour de France champ, another American, Greg LeMond, completed a heroic struggle to become not only a Tour de France champ, but the first American champ. After winning his first Tour de France, his brother-in-law accidentally shot him while turkey hunting. Despite still having 37 shotgun pellets in his body, he went on to win the race two more times. Name That Chimp: The word "chimpanzee" is actually from the Angolan Bantu for "mock man." The second syllable of that name gave us the genus name Pan, which includes the chimp and the bonobo, which is a pygmy chimp.
Which of these is not a meaning of "duff"? A) A curranty Scottish pudding B) Everything that collects on the forest floor C) A slang for the rear end D) Small flakes of skin fallen from the scalp Previous answer: The Rhode Island red is the state bird of Rhode Island. 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
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