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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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Tuesday, January 19There were some strange sitcoms back in the 1980s. One of the odder ones was "Bosum Buddies," in which two men wear drag so they can live in an all-women's hotel. Even odder was that Kip Hunter, aka Buffy, was played by future Oscar winner Tom Hanks, who also had a role as Alex's alcoholic uncle on "Family Ties." Hanks' co-star in "Bosum Buddies," by the way, was Peter Scolari, who went on to a role in "Newhart." Mr. Belvedere's full name was Lynn Aloysius Belvedere. The character actually came from a 1947 novel by Gwen Davenport, in which an arrogant genius signs up as a servant to get fodder for a novel. It became a movie the next year, called "Sitting Pretty," which earned Clifton Webb an Oscar nomination.
What kind of small wonder was Vicki on the TV series "Small Wonder"? A) An alien in hiding B) A leprechaun-turned-human C) A reincarnated princess D) A robot created by her dad Previous answer: Dylan hit No. 2 twice, but never had a No. 1 hit. 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. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or e-mail him at paul@triviahalloffame.com. COPYRIGHT 2010 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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