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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.
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Saturday, May 30Sabotage: Certain words are etymological mysteries that are tantalizingly close to solution. For example, we're pretty sure that the word "sabotage" comes from the French word "sabot." Traditionally, a sabot was a wooden shoe, and as the story goes, French luddites threw their shoes into industrial looms. A sabot can also be a railway track clamp, and we do know that during a 1910 rail strike, these were pulled out to disrupt commuters. But the word might also be slang for rural strikebreakers. Oscars Gone Wild: After Hollywood's Hays Code collapsed, the scandal of on-screen nudity quickly evaporated. Whereas it was once unthinkable for respectable actresses to appear nude, let alone topless, in a film, Glenda Jackson became the first woman to win an Oscar for doing either. The Lincoln Memorial appears on the $5, and the Jefferson Memorial is on the $10. Based on the bills on which they appear, which of these buildings is "worth" the most? A) Independence Hall B) U.S. Capitol C) U.S. Treasury Building D) White House Previous answer: Your baby teeth are deciduous. 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. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or e-mail him at paul@triviahalloffame.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
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