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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.
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FOR RELEASE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2011Is Queen Elizabeth black? If you believe in the "one drop" rule, then she may be. George III was married to Queen Charlotte, and some believe she had African ancestors through her Portuguese connection, thanks to the Moors. Florence, in fact, was likely the first place in the western world to have a black head of state. Alessandro de Medici, recognized as the illegitimate son of Lorenzo II de' Medici. He was likely the son of a black servant named Simonetta da Collavechio. Before Penny Marshall was Laverne De Fazio, she was a finalist to play Gloria Stivic. Gloria was married to Mike Stivic, and Marshall was once married to Rob Reiner, who played Mike Stivic.
A) "All in the Family" B) "Happy Days" C) "Mork and Mindy" D) "Welcome Back, Kotter" Previous answer: Martin Sheen's mother was Irish, but his father was an Estevez from Spain. 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 2011 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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