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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
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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 15, 2012
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Trivia Bits for October 31Abbey Road is most famous as the Beatles' recording studio. It is named for a street that runs through St. John's Wood in London. The studio itself is at 3 Abbey Rd., and it was out in front of that studio that they shot the famous picture of them crossing the street. The studio itself was built in a Georgian-era home that was converted for use in 1928 by composer Edward Elgar. In 2006, former 'N Sync member and attempted astronaut Lance Bass came out of the closet while he was dating a former contestant from "The Amazing Race." That contestant, Reichen Lehmkuhl, won season four, along with then-partner Chip Arndt. Actually, being gay isn't interesting anymore. But the astronaut part is. He was scheduled to fly on the Soyuz TMA-1 mission in 2002, but that fell apart when his sponsorships fell through. In honor of one of his heroes, what number did LeBron James choose when he started playing for the Cavs? A) 13 B) 23 C) 32 D) 33 Previous answer: Cosmic radiation is good for fictional astronauts like the Fantastic Four, but bad for real ones. 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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