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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 Saturday, October 3Dennis the Menace Hates His Mom: In the 1990s, the Dayton Daily News accidentally switched the caption for Dennis the Menace with the caption for The Far Side, leading Dennis to say to his mother, "I see your little, petrified skull ... labeled and resting on a shelf somewhere." The line was much funnier in Dennis' mouth than in that of Gary Larson's Neolithic fortune-teller. Does anybody out there know what Dennis was supposed to say? Grammar Rules: Do people laugh at you for being picky about grammar? In 2006, a grammar mistake cost Rogers Communication $2.13 million. The Canadian telecom giant thought it had a rock-solid deal to use utility poles, but a misplaced comma allowed the supplier to cancel the deal.
The letters in "eleven plus two" can be rearranged to spell "twelve plus one." What is this called? A) Anagram B) Metaphor C) Palindrome D) Synecdoche Previous answer: If you're literally picking nits, you're going after lice. 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
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