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Trivia Bits Saturday, July 4
Little Letters: Kathryn Dawn Lang likes to spell her name with lower-case letters. Lang is also notable for appearing on the cover of the debut issue of two magazines. One of them was Entertainment Weekly, which was dated Feb. 16, 1990. The other …
Trivia Bits Friday, July 3
Keep Quiet: To hide his Jewish origins, Marcel Mangel changed his name to that of a French Revolution general, François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers. He became Marcel Marceau, the French mime who came to define the art form. His father, a kosher …
Trivia Bits Thursday, July 2
The Ebola virus is named for the Ebola River, in the D.R. Congo, where the virus spread to more than 55 villages in 1976. This probably ruined any tourism industry along the Ebola River. In fact, the Ebola virus is a lot like the Marburg virus, …
Trivia Bits Wednesday, July 1
Happy Canada Day: Our Canadian readers are celebrating Canada Day and probably not reading this column in their papers. Originally, it was called Dominion Day, because Britain promoted some of its colonies to a semi-independent status called …
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Trivia Bits, August 21Eponym of the week: Revolutionary War brigadier general Francis Nash. Born in Virginia, he became an attorney in North Carolina, and commanded the First North Carolina Regiment at the Battle of Brandywine in 1777. The city of Nashville, Tenn., was named for him; the state was once part of North Carolina.
There are three "degrees of separation" between Tom Mix (filmdom's first cowboy megastar) and Tom Cruise. Mix was in "Rustlers' Roundup" (1933) with Noah Beery, Jr., who was in "Little Fauss and Big Halsy" (1970) with Robert Redford, who was in last year's "Lions for Lambs" with Cruise. What nation is the world's leading grower of coffee beans? A) Columbia B) Brazil C) Italy D) Kenya Previous answer: The world's largest thermometer is located near Death Valley, in Baker, Calif. 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. COPYRIGHT 2008 STANLEY NEWMAN DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS SYNDICATE
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