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Saturday, January 30
Not all students are fans of their school's sports teams. Some have used votes on team mascot names as a chance to poke fun at the whole sports-obsessed culture on campuses. That's why the University of California-Irvine named its team the Anteaters,…Read more.
Friday, January 29
One 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 …Read more.
Thursday, January 28
A few days ago, we mentioned that there were two well-known George Wallaces. There are also two somewhat-well-known George Segals. One George Segal is the banjo-playing actor best known for roles on the TV show "Just Shoot Me" and in the …Read more.
Wednesday, January 27
When you think Freemasons, you think of powerful white men, covertly pulling the levers of power in their ruthless quest for world domination. And, also, Richard Pryor. The comic legend joined Henry Brown Lodge No. 22 in Peoria, Ill., a year after …Read more.
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Friday, May 29
Flying in Super Style: Strictly speaking, any fixed-wing USAF airplane with the president aboard is Air Force One. For that matter, any helicopter is Marine One. But that being said, the presidential plane we all think of as Air Force One is a Boeing 747-200B. The plane is a flying White House, decked out with modern electronics and equipped with its own operating room, should the president ever need mid-air surgery. Urban Myths on Stage: As the story goes, it was Vanna White, or maybe Pia Zadora, or perhaps Zsa Zsa Gabor, who was so bad during a performance of the play "The Diary of Anne Frank" that someone in the audience yelled, "She's in the attic." It's a funny story but, sadly, not true.
Your baby teeth, which fall out, share a name with what botanical adjective? A) Deciduous B) Flowering C) Herbaceous D) Rhizome Previous answer: Yesterday's anti-Nazi passage is credited to Martin Niemoller. 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.
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