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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
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Trivia Bits for October 13We mentioned French stubbornness last week. Here's another example. France developed SECAM, a format for color TV, and is one of the few countries that still uses it, along with Russia, Poland and a handful of former French colonies and ex-Soviet republics. And Mongolia. North America, Japan and half of South America use NTSC, but the rest of the world uses the technically superior PAL (at least as far as old-time analog TV is concerned). Several people have appeared in two consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners. Meryl Streep was in "The Deer Hunter" and "Kramer vs. Kramer." John Gielgud was in "Chariots of Fire" and "Gandhi." And Russell Crowe was in "Gladiator" and "A Beautiful Mind." Can you think of others? Streep and Crowe, by the way, were nominated for Oscars for both roles. Sharing its name with a Chinese dynasty, what powdered drink boosted sales when it was used by Gemini astronauts? A) Ming B) Song C) Tang D) Yuan Previous answer: Hiawatha united the Iroquois. 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.
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