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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.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 11, 2012
Charlie Chaplin was a great artist, but he was also consumed by a form of pedophilia called phebophilia, which is an overwhelming attraction for teenage girls. He married and divorced two underage girls. One of them, Lita Grey, he married because …Read more.
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Saturday, November 14Yesterday, we wondered about the "real" Robin Hood. What about the "real" Lady Godiva? As the story goes, she rode naked through the streets of Coventry to get her husband to lower taxes. As it happens, there is a record of a Godgifu who was married to Leofric, earl of Mercia, which includes Coventry. The widowed Godgifu is mentioned in the Domesday survey as one of the few Anglo-Saxons, and the only woman, to remain a major landholder shortly after the Norman Conquest. Asians think of religion in different terms than most North Americans and Europeans do. It is not uncommon, for example, for somebody in Japan to follow Shinto, Buddhist and even Christian rituals. And some people question whether Confucianism is a religion at all, since it has no clergy, doesn't involve any gods and doesn't talk about the afterlife. Some folks like the way a skirl sounds.
A) A cat in heat B) A flatulent man C) Bagpipes D) Nails on a blackboard Previous answer: King Arthur is said to have died at Camlann. 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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