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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 23
Monday, November 23
When he was 13, Roald Dahl got a chance to be a taste-tester for a focus group at Cadbury, along with his classmates at Repton in Darbyshire. At the time, Cadbury and Rowntree engaged in bitter corporate espionage. It all …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
Friday, November 20
Last month, we looked at Earth's prime meridian. There is a prime meridian on Mars, too. It runs through the crater Airy-0, which is named for British Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy. And as it happens, he built the "transit circle" …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for October 16Despite being the home of Hollywood, for some reason Los Angeles has been snubbed repeatedly at the Oscars. The first movie to be set primarily or entirely in Los Angeles to win a Best Picture Oscar was "Million Dollar Baby," which came out in 2004. And Los Angeles doesn't exactly have a starring role, unlike the only other L.A.-based Best Picture winner, "Crash." Four people have been nominated in the Oscar acting category for movies in which they actually played more than one role. They are Jose Ferrer in "Moulin Rouge," Peter Sellers in "Dr. Strangelove," Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou" and Nicolas Cage in "Adaptation." Of these, Marvin was the only one to win, for his dual role as Kid Shalleen and Tim Strawn, defeating that hack Laurence Olivier, who had been nominated for playing Othello. Thanks to its millions of tourists, what country has the highest per capita crime rate of any nation on earth? A) France B) Italy C) Monaco D) Vatican City Previous answer: Potatoes are the most popular American vegetable. 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. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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