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Trivia Bits for October 12

If you're Italian, or a fan of European exploration, Happy Columbus Day. But if you're an Indian, a Latino or generally anti-Eurocentric ... well ... Unhappy Columbus Day. Except it isn't really Columbus Day. We celebrate Columbus because he reached the Americas on Oct. 12. But that was the date on the Julian calendar, which we don't use anymore. On our Gregorian calendar, we should be celebrating Columbus Day on Oct. 21, 1492. Or we should be celebrating Dia de la Raza, depending on where you sit.

Happy Thanksgiving! If you like Thanksgiving so much you want to celebrate it twice, head for Canada, where the holiday is celebrated every year on the second Monday in October. It's a day off everywhere but New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. It's widely held that the Canadian holiday is earlier because of Canada's shorter harvest season.

The Canadian Football League even has a special football game.

In lore, who united the Five Nations of the Iroquois, protected them from evil and taught them the arts of medicine, agriculture and navigation?

A) Green Arrow

B) Hiawatha

C) Red Cloud

D) Tonto

Previous answer: "The Silence of the Lambs" was the first video we could rent before it won the Best Picture Oscar.

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