Recently
Saturday, November 7
William Lear had quite a career, despite having dropped out after eighth grade. He sold the patent for the car radio to Galvin, which is now Motorola. He invented the 8-track tape cassette that became a '70s fad. And he founded a company that …Read more.
Friday, November 6
Built out of solid rock in the 1960s, Temppeliaukio Church is found largely underground in Helsinki. Architects Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen designed the church to burrow into solid rock, using designs that predated World War II. The back wall of the …Read more.
Thursday, November 5
Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, which celebrates the thwarting of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Fawkes and a group of Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (At the time, Catholics were severely repressed in …Read more.
Thursday, November 5
Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, which celebrates the thwarting of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Fawkes and a group of Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (At the time, Catholics were severely repressed in …Read more.
more articles
|
Saturday, May 23Scandinavian Sounds: Henrik Ibsen is the most famous Norwegian writer and Edvard Grieg is the country's most famous composer. When Grieg adapted Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," he also wrote "In the Hall of the Mountain King," famous for the bit where bassoons and cellos replicate the sound of a tiptoeing Gynt. The piece has been covered by the Who, ELO and Rainbow. It also inspired the theme songs for "Inspector Gadget" and "Sonic the Hedgehog." Scandinavian Scribes: Only France and the U.S. have won more Nobel literature prizes than Sweden has, perhaps because the Swedish Academy gives out the prizes. That being said, you likely haven't heard of any of the Swedish winners: writers like Par Lagerkvist, Erik Axel Karlfeldt and Verner von Heidenstam. What Shakespeare play includes a witchy recipe that calls for "eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog"? A) "Julius Caesar" B) "Macbeth" C) "The Tempest" D) "Twelfth Night" Previous answer: Innsbruck is the capital of Tyrol in Austria. 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.
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
