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    STAN'S WEEKLY TRIVIA CHALLENGE CONTEST NO. 101 Who was the first American whose last name begins with "O" to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp? HOW TO WIN: Send your answer, with your full name and address, either by e-mail to TriviaBits@…

  • Trivia Bits, September 5
    Have you ever noticed that, of the four seasons, only "winter" and "summer" can be used as verbs? A search of our unabridged dictionaries could find no "seasonal" verb for "spring," "fall," or …

  • Trivia Bits, September 4
    Eponym of the week: William Mathias Scholl, the Dr. Scholl behind the foot-products company. Working in a Chicago shoe store as a teen around 1900, he started taking night classes in podiatry, eventually getting a medical degree but never practicing.…

  • Trivia Bits, September 3
    Where's the world's most tilted tower? Hint: It's not in Italy. The Leaning Tower of Pisa currently tilts a mere 3.97 degrees from perpendicular. Last November, Guinness World Records certified the 15th-century church tower in the northwest German …

Trivia Bits, June 5

Eponyms of the week: Chicagoans William Rand and Andrew McNally, who started out in the printing business in the 1850s. They originally specialized in the railroad industry, printing tickets, timetables and guides. Their first map appeared in an 1872 railroad guide. They published their first atlas in 1876, and their first automobile road map (of New York City and vicinity) in 1904.

Misplaced trust? The slogan of McGraw Hill's Access Medicine website is "Trusted Content. Instant Answers." The site offers for sale its "Bioterrorism Sourcebook." On page 9, in reference to a simulated bioterrorism attack, you'll find this rather egregious typo, "...both national quarantine and Marshall law were considered." (Thanks to Chris Sanford, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Washington.)

What word literally means "forest man" in its original language?
A) Sequoia
B) Orangutan
C) Grizzly
D) Camouflage

Previous answer: Music-industry legend Quincy Jones admitted in his autobiography that he never learned how to drive an automobile.

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 Stan Newman at StanTrivia@aol.com or on a postcard to P.O.
Box 69, Massapequa Park, NY 11762.



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