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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 16Despite being the home of Hollywood, for some reason Los Angeles has been snubbed repeatedly at the Oscars. The first movie to be set primarily or entirely in Los Angeles to win a Best Picture Oscar was "Million Dollar Baby," which came out in 2004. And Los Angeles doesn't exactly have a starring role, unlike the only other L.A.-based Best Picture winner, "Crash." Four people have been nominated in the Oscar acting category for movies in which they actually played more than one role. They are Jose Ferrer in "Moulin Rouge," Peter Sellers in "Dr. Strangelove," Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou" and Nicolas Cage in "Adaptation." Of these, Marvin was the only one to win, for his dual role as Kid Shalleen and Tim Strawn, defeating that hack Laurence Olivier, who had been nominated for playing Othello. Thanks to its millions of tourists, what country has the highest per capita crime rate of any nation on earth? A) France B) Italy C) Monaco D) Vatican City Previous answer: Potatoes are the most popular American vegetable. 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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