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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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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 England.) Today, the British celebrate with fireworks and by burning effigies called guys. For about a year, "NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw" featured a globe that was spinning backward. A viewer noticed and wrote in. It was also during the Brokaw area that NBC News adopted the current theme music. It's called "The Mission," and it was written by John Williams, who is not related to the current host, Brian Williams. Mind you, the theme was updated when Brian Williams took over the show after the 2004 presidential election. Introduced to Japan by Horace Wilson, besuboru is better known in the U.S.
A) Baseball B) Basketball C) Soccer D) Wrestling Previous answer: Gladys Knight was backed by the Pips. 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.COM
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