Recently
Saturday, May 26
Fritz Haber became the "father of chemical warfare" after he developed chlorine gas for the German army during World War I. It was considered a major step forward in military brutality. He also worked on an insecticide called Zyklon B. And …Read more.
Friday, May 25
Many video games have cheat codes. The most famous is the Konami Code, which developer Kazuhisa Hashimoto created because he thought Gradius was impossible to play otherwise. There are variations, but it typically goes like this: up, up, down, down, …Read more.
Thursday, May 24
During WWI, British munitions minister David Lloyd George met Chaim Weizmann in Manchester. Weizmann was working on synthetic rubber, and a byproduct of that process was acetone. The British military needed acetone because its supply from Europe was …Read more.
Wednesday, May 23
You'd think young men have been giving their fiancÇes diamond rings for centuries. Perhaps, but it only became an Ironclad social rule after De Beers hired the ad agency NW Ayer & Son in 1939. They developed the slogan
"A Diamond is …Read more.
more articles
|
FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012When Stephen King wrote "Carrie," about a telekinetic teenager in Maine, he was in fact teaching teenagers at Hampden Academy in Maine. King had already written three novels, none of which he could get published. Worse, he almost didn't hear about the book's being accepted for publication, because he had to have his phone disconnected to save money. And as for Carrie, he finished it only after his wife found the first few discarded pages in the garbage. Creighton Abrams and William Sherman both have what military item named for them? A) Helicopter B) Rifle C) Submarine D) Tank Previous answer: Chaucer wrote "The Canterbury Tales." 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.
COPYRIGHT 2012 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM, 2012
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
