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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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Trivia Bits for October 24You often hear about people banging on the door to join the European Union. The former Warsaw Pact countries have scrabbled to join, and Turkey is in the middle of somewhat acrimonious talks to join the club. But one country has left the EU. In 1985, Greenland gave up its membership card in a dispute over fishing rights, which is rather remarkable, since Greenland is essentially part of Denmark, which remains a member. Paul Giamatti is an acclaimed actor. But his father was famous, as well. He was Bart Giamatti, the baseball commissioner. The elder Giamatti had been president of Yale, where he was known for being tough with the union. This impressed the baseball honchos, but Bart Giammati died of a heart attack just six months into his term, and only eight days after banishing Pete Rose from baseball.
What was not only Henry Fonda's last movie, but the only one in which he appeared with his daughter Jane? A) The China Syndrome B) Easy Rider C) On Golden Pond D) Terms of Endearment Previous answer: Episode No. 100 of "Frasier" was filmed in Seattle. 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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