Trivia Bits for October 23 by Paul Paquet on Creators.com

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Trivia Bits for October 23

You occasionally get people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed on government grounds. Usually, they're insisting on the wrong 10, at least if you're Catholic. Catholics edit the Protestant Second Commandment, with that business about false idols, and instead split the Tenth Commandment in two, instead. Oddly, in Mark 10:19, when Jesus says, "Thou knowest the commandments," his list skips four of them, including the one about graven images.

Scriptwriter Stirling Silliphant merged two novels, "The Tower" by Richard Martin Stern and "The Glass Inferno" by Thomas Scortia and Frank Robinson, to create his script for "The Towering Inferno." Another mash-up trick with the billing appeased two titanic rivals. Neither Steve McQueen nor Paul Newman would give up top billing, so one name is higher up but further left.

McQueen also ensured that his character had exactly the same number of lines as Newman's.

The 100th episode of "Frasier," aired in November 1997, was filmed on location in what city, where the show was set?

A) Cincinnati

B) Minneapolis

C) San Francisco

D) Seattle

Previous answer: Muhammad is the most common first name in the world. The Chinese name Lee is the most common surname.

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