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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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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 2Monday, November 2 Today is the Day of the Dead. Although most associated with Mexico, it is also commemorated in Latin America, Spain and the Philippines. It does appear, though, that the day originates with an Aztec festival dedicated to the goddess Mictecacihuatl, queen of the underworld. She is thought to have inspired La Calavera Catrina, a skeletal woman in a nice dress and hat who is now associated with the day. Tom Waddell, who represented the United States in decathlon in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, went on to found the Gay Games in 1982. It was originally called the Gay Olympics, but the IOC had issues with this. The 2006 edition was supposed to be in Montreal, but after a fight over financing, the 2006 Gay Games were awarded to Chicago, instead.
In the 1820s, Christian Jorgensen Thomsen proposed a system for dividing human prehistory into all but which of these ages? A) The Bronze Age B) The Golden Age C) The Iron Age D) The Stone Age Previous answer: In honor of Michael Jordan, LeBron James choose #23 when he started playing for the Cavs. 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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