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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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Friday, November 13George Voinovich won the Ohio Senate seat opened up after the incumbent went back to space. That would be John Glenn, who made history as the oldest man in space. As the junior senator from Ohio, Voinovich also intersected with pop culture trivia. On the last episode of "Spin City," Mike becomes an environmental lobbyist. He reports tangling with Alex Keaton, the junior senator from Ohio. (And of course, Michael J. Fox played both roles.) Was there a real Robin Hood? Probably not, but that doesn't stop people from trying. Two candidates have emerged. One is Robert Hood of Yorkshire, an outlaw fugitive who lived in the 1220s. The stories say Robin Hood was from Loxley, which is in Yorkshire. Another was Robyn Hood, who was on the King's Chamber payroll in the 1320s.
What semi-mythic figure died at the Battle of Camlann in A.D. 537? A) King Arthur B) Charlemagne C) Richard the Lionhearted D) Saladin Previous answer: Yesterday's baseball player was Al Kaline. Get it? Alkaline? Not acidic at all? 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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