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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 30Cosmetics mogul Leonard Lauder coined the lipstick index, also called the lipstick indicator, for the theory that sales of cheap indulgences go up just before and during a recession. Lauder was speaking as the chair of Estee Lauder, in the early 2000s. The recession that came in the second half of the decade seems to disprove the idea, as Estee Lauder sales have dropped along with sales for everything else, so the sales bump around 2001 may have had more to do with new celebrity-based brands. White Castle is thought to be the oldest American fast-food hamburger chain, and it is particularly famous for square burgers called slyders, which you can buy by the half-dozen. The chain was started in Wichita, Kan., at a time when ground beef was considered unsanitary, hence the "white castle" image, based on the Chicago Water Tower.
In the comics, it turned Reed Richards and his fellow astronauts into the Fantastic Four. In real life, it grounded astronaut Donald Thomas. What is it? A) Cosmic radiation B) Gamma radiation C) Microwave radiation D) Ultraviolet radiation Previous answer: Paul was the tentmaker. 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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