Trivia Bits for Thursday, January 7 by Paul Paquet on Creators.com

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Trivia Bits for Thursday, January 7

In Isaiah 2:4, you are urged to beat your swords into plowshares. The idea inspired a statue at the UN HQ in Manhattan, as well as the name of the Plowshares Movement, an antiwar group at its height in the 1980s. But in Joel 3:10, you are told to beat those plowshares back into swords. It reads: "Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, 'I am strong!'"

If you watch your police procedural TV shows, you know that serial killers are caught because of intricate police work and the highest forms of intellectual deduction. In the real world, not so much. The Son of Sam was discovered by tracing a ticket he got in 1977 for parking by a fire hydrant, near the scene of one of the crimes.

Actually, come to think of it, that's pretty smart policing.

The "me" in Roger & Me was Michael Moore. What GM exec was the Roger?

A) Roger Ailes

B) Roger Moore

C) Roger Mudd

D) Roger Smith

Previous answer: Since he is an animal, Bugs Bunny would need to see a vet.

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