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Thursday, May 23
In addition to being a notoriously voiced singer, Neil Young also loves model trains, so much so that he tried to take over Lionel Trains. He even invented a control system so that his disabled son could play with the trains as well, by remote …Read more.
Wednesday, May 22
Paul Julian worked behind the scenes at Warner Brothers, painting the backgrounds of the cartoons. He was particularly known for doing urban scenes. But his other claim to almost-fame is that he voiced the Roadrunner. It was an easy gig, since the …Read more.
Tuesday, May 21
Polo and jai alai share a particular rule that few other sports would even consider. No left-handed players are allowed. In jai alai, this is because of the three-walled court, which requires bounces off the sidewall, a touch move if you're a …Read more.
Monday, May 20
An EGOT is winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. The first British actor to pull this off was John Gielgud. He won an Emmy for the "Summer's Lease" miniseries and an Oscar, oddly enough, for 1981's "Arthur." He won the Tony, …Read more.
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RELEASE: MARCH 2, 2012The wooly mammoth was the first extinct animal to have its genome sequenced. Before you get too excited, though, that doesn't mean we're around the corner from cloning one. Cloning is hugely complicated, even under the best of circumstances, and in this case, would-be cloners would be dealing with very old genetic material. That's probably a good thing, because we sequenced a human being all the way back in 2003. In 1999, a high school in Foxworth, Miss., banned what Ray Bradbury book about book-banning because of an errant blasphemy? A) "Animal Farm" B) "Atlas Shrugged" C) "Brave New World" D) "Fahrenheit 451" Previous answer: Tom Clancy's first book was "The Hunt for Red October." 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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