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Monday, March 22
There are names for all that clutter filling up your TV screen. Actual, printable names. The station logos are called bugs, which is rather apt, actually. Those annoying animated ads that move across the screen are snipes. They are designed to …Read more.
Saturday, March 20
One of the more peculiar, but lesser known, incidents in the Apollo mission occurred when an astronaut gave himself communion on the moon. Buzz Aldrin used a kit prepared by his pastor back home. The incident occurred during radio silence, to avoid …Read more.
Friday, March 19
To fight prostate cancer, the AdMeTech Foundation introduced Prosty the Spokesgland, whose theme song was sung to the tune of "Frosty the Snowman." The rousing chorus was, "Look at Prosty grow/Lumpety lump lump/Lumpety lump lump/No …Read more.
Thursday, March 18
ASCAP doesn't mess around. It will sue your butt off if you violate the copyright of its members. In 1995, ASCAP announced that unless it got fees of up $1,400 from each site, it would take legal action resulting in six-figure fines or a year in …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for October 27
Some 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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