Trivia Bits for October 28 by Paul Paquet on Creators.com

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Tuesday, March 16 Thanks to the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington has become queen of the liberal bloggers. But it wasn't always that way. She was born Arianna Stassinopoulos in Greece but married oil millionaire, and future Republican congressman, Michael …Read more. Monday, March 15 The original version of the charity song "We Are the World" was recorded when a lot of stars were in town anyway, for the American Music Awards. And it certainly attracted some of the creme de la creme of the music biz in the '80s — …Read more. Saturday, March 13 New York is the Big Apple, which has spawned a number of other fruity nicknames. Atlanta is the Big Peach, Sacramento is the Big Tomato and Honolulu is the Big Pineapple. Tel Aviv calls itself the Big Orange, while Kuala Lumpur is the Big Durian, in …Read more. Friday, March 12 For crossword writers and Scrabble players, the Hawaiian language is a treasure trove. In addition to such vowel-heavy words as hula, luau, poi and lei, you also have aa (a rough-surfaced lava) and a whole nest of birds, like the oo (an extinct …Read more.

On July 17, 1938, Douglas Corrigan left Floyd Bennett Field with a flight plan for California. But instead, he landed in Ireland. He got called Wrong-Way Corrigan, and people thought it was hilarious, but it is actually much more likely that, when he couldn't get permission to fly to Ireland on purpose, he flew there "by accident." He later ran for the U.S. Senate on the Prohibition Party ticket, winning just 2 percent of the vote.

Ken Forsse did animatronics for Disney before creating Teddy Ruxpin, which became a big hit in the '80s. The toy had a standard audiotape in its back, so it could talk, which was super cool back in the day. It even inspired its own cartoon. Sadly, the company that made Teddy Ruxpin was destroyed by the 1987 stock market crash and eventually went under.

There have been attempts by other companies to bring him back.

What part of speech is most frequently used to unfortunately split infinitives?

A) Adjective

B) Adverb

C) Conjunction

D) Preposition

Previous answer: Lewis Carroll modeled the dodo on himself.

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