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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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Thursday, May 28Girls in Bikinis: The Miss World pageant was originally the Festival Bikini Contest. But the bikinis turned out to be a problem when a Miss America, Yolande Betbeze, refused to pose in one. The pageant's swimwear sponsor, Catalina, responded by creating the Miss USA and Miss Universe contests. Crowned in 1952, in the first Miss Universe was Armi Kuusela from Finland. Canadian Football: Okay, most of our readers are Americans who probably don't care about Canadian football, but this is interesting anyway. Toronto's CFL team is called the Argonauts, for Jason's ship in Greek mythology. He was after the Golden Fleece with a crew that included Hercules, Orpheus and Theseus. He was neither a Communist nor a Social Democrat, nor a trade unionist, nor a Jew, but the Nazis still came for what Lutheran pastor and former Nazi sympathizer anyway? A) Gunter Grass B) Martin Niemoller C) Joseph Ratzinger D) Kurt Waldheim Previous answer: The crime in "Crime and Punishment" is murder. 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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