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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2012
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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 17, 2012
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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 16, 2012
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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 15, 2012
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Friday, January 29One of the biggest comedians of the 1970s was born Frederick Karl Pruetzel, to a Hungarian father from Germany. He also had a Puerto Rican mother, though, and you know him as Freddie Prinze. In his stand-up routines, he called himself a Hunga Rican or as a Hungarican. While starring on "Chico and the Man," however, he shot himself in the head, possibly intending it as a joke, possibly because of the Quaaludes in his system. Aside from people born in Britain, Ireland's largest ethnic minority is Poles. That Ireland has ethnic communities at all is a little odd, since for centuries Ireland exported its people around the world. The influx largely occurred after Poland joined the EU, which allows citizens to work in any member country. (In France, the "Polish plumber" became a particular bogeyman.) Ironically, with Ireland's recent downturn, it is again exporting people: The Poles are going home. What studio's torch-bearing logo was modeled after Claudia Dell (maybe) in 1925, Evelyn Venable in 1936 and Jenny Joseph in 1993? A) Columbia B) Disney C) MGM D) Paramount Previous answer: Your fastest muscle bats your eyelashes. 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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