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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 23
Monday, November 23
When he was 13, Roald Dahl got a chance to be a taste-tester for a focus group at Cadbury, along with his classmates at Repton in Darbyshire. At the time, Cadbury and Rowntree engaged in bitter corporate espionage. It all …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
Friday, November 20
Last month, we looked at Earth's prime meridian. There is a prime meridian on Mars, too. It runs through the crater Airy-0, which is named for British Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy. And as it happens, he built the "transit circle" …Read more.
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Trivia Bits, April 15Arquette ancestry update: After reading here that actress Rosanna Arquette's father was named Lewis after his ancestor of Lewis and Clark fame, Jim Dickie of Livermore, Calif., wrote us to add to the story. Jim knew Russ Arquette, Rosanna's great-uncle and Cliff "Charlie Weaver" Arquette's brother. Russ' son, Lewis Arquette's cousin, is named "Clark." Coincidence? We don't think so.
Nearly 30 years before his starring role in the sitcom "Green Acres," Eddie Albert wrote and starred in what is believed to be television's first original drama. In October 1936, Albert and co-star Grace Brandt appeared in "The Love Nest," which was broadcast from a transmitter atop the Empire State Building, and received in the RCA Building, about a mile away. The tune "Eye of the Tiger," performed by the rock group Survivor, was written for the 1982 film "Rocky III" and was #1 on the U.S. A) Sylvester Stallone playing the drums B) A spoken introduction C) The growls of a tiger D) An extended guitar solo Previous answer: To date, only two people have been to the deepest part of the world's oceans -- the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific. In January 1960, a U.S. Navy lieutenant and a Swiss explorer/engineer got there in a Navy bathyscaph, reaching a depth of 35,813 feet. 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 Stan Newman at StanTrivia@aol.com or on a postcard to P.O. Box 69, Massapequa Park, NY 11762.
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