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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2012
Tim Harper was a campus reporter for the Drake University Times-Delphic in Iowa, when he broke the biggest story of his career on Sept. 17, 1969. Except that none of it was true. That year, Paul McCartney was out of the public eye, as he mulled the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Henry James proofread the galleys for the 1903 edition of "The Ambassadors," which had been serialized in North American Review. Unfortunately, NAR had edited it down, and James wanted to restore the original version for the book. In the …Read more.
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.
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Wednesday, November 18Harry Potter's Sorcerer's Stone was called the Philosopher's Stone in the British edition. Historically, alchemists sought to create a philosopher's stone to make their own gold. In 1980, Glenn Seaborg succeeded when centuries of alchemists had failed, when he converted trillionths of a gram of lead into gold, albeit at mind-boggling cost in energy. Knott's Berry Farm is now an amusement park, but it was once, in fact, a berry farm, operated by Walter Knott. He had single-handedly revived a large, reddish-purple berry called the boysenberry, after he and a U.S. Department of Agriculture official found some vines on Rudolph Boysen's abandoned farm. The Knotts started serving chicken to augment berry sales and built attractions to entertain people waiting for their food. What '70s TV icon was Jennifer Aniston's godfather and Nicollette Sheridan's stepfather? A) Alan Alda B) Walter Cronkite C) Redd Foxx D) Telly Savalas Previous answer: The Masters of the Universe were Wall Street brokers. 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.
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