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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 28On July 17, 1938, Douglas Corrigan left Floyd Bennett Field with a flight plan for California. But instead, he landed in Ireland. He got called Wrong-Way Corrigan, and people thought it was hilarious, but it is actually much more likely that, when he couldn't get permission to fly to Ireland on purpose, he flew there "by accident." He later ran for the U.S. Senate on the Prohibition Party ticket, winning just 2 percent of the vote. Ken Forsse did animatronics for Disney before creating Teddy Ruxpin, which became a big hit in the '80s. The toy had a standard audiotape in its back, so it could talk, which was super cool back in the day. It even inspired its own cartoon. Sadly, the company that made Teddy Ruxpin was destroyed by the 1987 stock market crash and eventually went under.
What part of speech is most frequently used to unfortunately split infinitives? A) Adjective B) Adverb C) Conjunction D) Preposition Previous answer: Lewis Carroll modeled the dodo on himself. 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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