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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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WEEK OF JANUARY 18Monday, January 18 Prince Charles was apparently worshipped as a divine figure by the Iounhanan tribe on Tanna, which is one of the islands in Vanuatu, a nation in the South Pacific once known as the New Hebrides. As the story goes, when he heard about his godhood, he sent the islanders a signed picture, which is now treated as a relic and protected by an official guardian. Pat Boone made a career doing bland covers of 1950s R&B classics. One of these was Little Richard's "Tutti-Frutti," even though the song's original lyrics were fairly explicitly an ode to gay anal sex. Boone's version charted higher than Little Richard's, so he decided to write a song so fast that it was be Boone-proof. That song was "Long Tall Sally." And, of course, Boone covered it.
Who never hit No. 1 in the U.S., but did get to No. 2 twice, with "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35"? A) The Byrds B) Bob Dylan C) Jimi Hendrix D) Rolling Stones Previous answer: Tim Gunn stars on "Project Runway." 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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