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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 26Heath Ledger and his sister Kate were named for the two main characters in "Wuthering Heights," later a movie starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. A 1970 version, starring future Bond star Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff, inspired an 18-year-old Kate Bush to write "Wuthering Heights," which became one of her most popular songs. Also in Britain, Prime Minister Gordon Brown compared himself to "an older Heathcliff, a wiser Heathcliff." While Dell was named for Michael Dell, who famously founded the company in a dorm room at the University of Texas at Austin, Gateway was named for its address, 610 Gateway Street in North Sioux City, Iowa. In fact, the company played up its rural origins, using packaging inspired by Holstein cows and including the tagline, "Computers from Iowa?" From 1926 to 1976, who illustrated the Boy Scout calendar that the kids used to sell door to door? A) Walt Disney B) Grandma Moses C) Norman Rockwell D) Grant Wood Previous answer: Henry Fonda's last film was "On Golden Pond." 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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