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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, November 24It was 150 years ago today that Charles Darwin saw the publication of "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," which explained evolution and made possible another century of scientific advances. Darwin dawdled considerably before publishing his ideas, though, and was nearly scooped by Alfred Russel Wallace, who was developing the same insights. The term "survival of the fittest" only appeared in the fifth edition, the term having originated with Herbert Spencer. Richard Knerr and Spud Melin founded Wham-O, which was named for its first product, a kind of slingshot inspired by a device falconers used to fire meat at falcons in training. In the 1950s, the company mastered the art of turning unusual playthings into national fads, starting with the hula hoop, the marketing of which inspired the movie "The Hudsucker Proxy." Popularized by JFK's national security advisor, McGeorge Bundy, what Wham-O product was made with Zectron? A) Frisbee B) Hula Hoop C) Silly String D) Super Ball Previous answer: Somebody with alektorophobia fears chickens. 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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