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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.
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.
Friday, November 20
Last month, we looked at Earth's prime meridian. There is a prime meridian on Mars, too. It runs through the crater Airy-0, which is named for British Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy. And as it happens, he built the "transit circle" …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for Wednesday, September 2Really Foreign Writers: French novelist Pierre Boulle had been a secret agent in Southeast Asia during World War II and used the experience to write "The Bridge on the River Kwai." The movie version won him an Oscar for the screenplay, even though he somehow managed to write it without speaking any English. (It was actually written by two blacklisted writers.) Boulle also, weirdly, wrote "Planet of the Apes," which also became a hit movie. The M Word: In 1957, short-statured actor Billy Barty founded Little People of America while at a Reno wedding for people like him. Billing itself as "a nonprofit organization that provides support and information to people of short stature and their families," LPA has battled "dwarf-tossing" (don't ask) and has recently filed an FCC complaint over the word "midget." Incidentally, the standard definition of dwarfism covers anyone 4-foot-10 or smaller. The climax of what movie, which Hitchcock wanted to call "The Man in Lincoln's Nose," was filmed on a soundstage copy of Mount Rushmore? A) "The Man Who Knew Too Much" B) "Notorious" C) "North by Northwest" D) "Vertigo" Previous answer: Belinda Carlisle sang for the Go-Gos. 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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