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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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Wednesday, January 6There is a trivia chestnut that when Babe Ruth broke the single season home run record, the record he broke was his own. He actually broke his own record three times, moving the mark from 29 in 1919 to 60 in 1927. The record before that, 27, was set by Ned Williamson of the Chicago White Stockings, although there is some controversy there, as he played in a very small ballpark. Only two movie trilogies had every one of the movies nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. One is "The Godfather." Not only did the first "Godfather" movie win, but so did the second, making that the first sequel to win the Best Picture Oscar. The third "Lord of the Rings" movie ("The Return of the King") also won Best Picture, making it the first "III" so honored. If the cartoon character known for saying "What's up, doc" really did need to see a doc, whom would he make an appointment with? A) Gerontologist B) Obstetrician C) Pediatrician D) Veterinarian Previous answer: Football has the most rules. 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.
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