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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.
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.
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Trivia Bits for October 21When Bob Dylan "revisited" Highway 61, he was paying tribute to one of the most important routes in American musical history. It runs north from New Orleans, along the Mississippi and past both St. Louis and Memphis. It became known as Blues Highway, in part because it helped communicate the medium of the blues along the backbone of America. The highway does reach Dylan's home state of Minnesota and crosses into Canada, where it becomes Ontario Provincial Highway 61 and goes through Thunder Bay. Aside from saving Europe from tyranny, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill have something else in common. They liked to paint. In fact, Hallmark featured their artwork on their cards. Churchill was probably the better artist — his work can be found in dozens of art galleries around the world.
What lecturer on anatomy at St. George's Hospital wrote a famous book on anatomy first published in 1858? A) Henry Brown B) Henry Gray C) Henry Green D) Henry White Previous answer: Teams from the Naval Academy are the Midshipmen. 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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