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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 Thursday, October 1Bogie in the Caribbean: There is a Hollywood legend that Ernest Hemingway bet Howard Hawks he couldn't film "To Have and Have Not." Hawks won the bet, when he produced a film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. One of the writers hired to work on the script was a down-on-his-luck William Faulkner, making this an unprecedented instance of a book by one Nobel laureate being adapted for film by another Nobel laureate. Awful, Artificial and Amusing: Speaking of legends, as the story goes, when Queen Anne said that St. Paul's Cathedral was "awful, artificial and amusing," "awful" meant "awe inspiring," "artificial" meant "clever use of artifice" and "amusing" meant "astonishing." So, despite sounding rather mean, the queen was actually paying Christopher Wren a compliment. When you win each of these awards, you can check for yourself.
A) Emmy B) Grammy C) Oscar D) Tony Previous answer: St. Patrick was actually a Welshman. 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
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