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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.
Thursday, November 19
One of the titans of animation was Isadore Freleng, nicknamed Friz for his frizzie hair. He had been part of the Kansas City clique of animators working for Disney before moving to Warner Brothers, where he was a key person behind such characters as …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for October 13We mentioned French stubbornness last week. Here's another example. France developed SECAM, a format for color TV, and is one of the few countries that still uses it, along with Russia, Poland and a handful of former French colonies and ex-Soviet republics. And Mongolia. North America, Japan and half of South America use NTSC, but the rest of the world uses the technically superior PAL (at least as far as old-time analog TV is concerned). Several people have appeared in two consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners. Meryl Streep was in "The Deer Hunter" and "Kramer vs. Kramer." John Gielgud was in "Chariots of Fire" and "Gandhi." And Russell Crowe was in "Gladiator" and "A Beautiful Mind." Can you think of others? Streep and Crowe, by the way, were nominated for Oscars for both roles. Sharing its name with a Chinese dynasty, what powdered drink boosted sales when it was used by Gemini astronauts? A) Ming B) Song C) Tang D) Yuan Previous answer: Hiawatha united the Iroquois. 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. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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