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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 27Some believe the "club" in a club sandwich is the Saratoga Club in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. A line cook named Danny Mears is said to have collected bacon, lettuce and turkey between slices of bread. A different club in Saratoga Springs is credited with inventing potato chips. As the story goes, Chef George Crum got tired of a customer who kept demanding more thinly sliced French fries. At first, potato chips were called Saratoga chips. The Funk Brothers played on more No. 1 hits than anybody else, since they were Motown studio's session musicians. Another legendary group of session musicians was the Wrecking Crew, which played on six straight Grammy winners for Song of the Year: "A Taste of Honey"; "Strangers in the Night"; "Up, Up and Away"; "Mrs.
When Alice ran into a stuttering dodo in Wonderland, she was meeting the stand-in for what author? A) Hans Christian Andersen B) James Barrie C) L. Frank Baum D) Lewis Carroll Previous answer: Norman Rockwell worked on Boy Scout calendars. 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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