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  • Trivia Bits, May 12
    Word of the week: "paraph." It is a handwritten flourish made under a person's signature, once popularly used as a forgery deterrent. Some famous Americans whose autograph often included a paraph: John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, Sam …

  • Trivia Bits, May 10
    STAN'S WEEKLY TRIVIA CHALLENGE CONTEST NO. 84 What famous name from 19th-century world history was once the president of three countries simultaneously? HOW TO WIN: Send your answer, with your full name and address, either by e-mail to TriviaBits@…

  • Trivia Bits, May 9
    The word "fiasco," as in "spectacular failure," means "flask" in Italian. Specifically, the flask commonly used for Chianti that is enclosed in a straw basket. The word took on its unpleasant connotation as an Italian …

  • Trivia Bits, May 8
    Small-town celebrity birthplace of the week: Byron, in northern Illinois (current population about 4,000). Baseball Hall of Famer and sporting-goods entrepreneur Albert Goodwill Spalding was born there in 1850. Impressionist painter Wilson Irvine …

Trivia Bits, March 12

Your humble trivia author has many pleasant memories of listening to worldwide shortwave radio stations as a teen. That's why we're glad that, even in the Internet Age, the Voice of America (VOA) is alive and well, thank you. In 1994, VOA became the first broadcast news organization to offer continuously updated programming on the World Wide Web.

Rome is known to trivia fans for being built on seven hills. We were surprised to learn how many other world capitals claim to be built on seven hills. They include Amman, Asuncion, Budapest, Edinburgh, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Kampala, Lisbon, Moscow and Prague.
U.S. cities claiming a seven-hill heritage include Cincinnati, Providence, St. Paul and Seattle.

Most species of snake have how many functioning lungs?
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Previous answer: The Ohio-based Sky Climber Corporation manufactures skyscraper scaffolding used by window washers.

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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Originally Published on Wednesday March 12, 2008

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