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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2012
Tim Harper was a campus reporter for the Drake University Times-Delphic in Iowa, when he broke the biggest story of his career on Sept. 17, 1969. Except that none of it was true. That year, Paul McCartney was out of the public eye, as he mulled the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Henry James proofread the galleys for the 1903 edition of "The Ambassadors," which had been serialized in North American Review. Unfortunately, NAR had edited it down, and James wanted to restore the original version for the book. In the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 16, 2012
British post-punk group Joy Division's music wasn't especially joyful. And the origin of the name is even less so. As the story goes, the Nazis plucked the prettiest women from concentration camps and employed them in brothels for preferred soldiers.…Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Before Mickey Mouse — and before he knew much about intellectual property laws — Walt Disney created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1928 for Universal. When he and Universal parted company, Disney lost Oswald, which always rankled the …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for Monday, January 11Monday, January 11 The Droste effect occurs when an image contains a copy of that same image, infinitely. It gets its name from Droste, a Dutch brand of cacao, whose tins depicted a Dutch woman holding a Droste tin, on which she was pictured, and so on. The idea of an object within itself goes way back to the Middle Ages, however, when artists called it mise-en-abyme. George Thornton had an unusual problem in November 1970. Working for the Oregon State Highway Department, he had to get rid of a beached whale, which he decided to blow it up with a half ton of dynamite. All he did was create a lot of smaller pieces of whale to deal with. Dave Barry was very amused. You can still find the news footage, shot by ATU Channel 2 in Portland. Despite being a South American rodent, what animal was classified as a fish so that Catholics could eat it during Lent? A) Aardvark B) Capybara C) Koala D) Raccoon Previous answer: Marie Curie appeared simultaneously on France's 500-franc note and Poland's 20,000-zloty note, having been a Pole who worked in France. 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.
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