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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 21When Bob Dylan "revisited" Highway 61, he was paying tribute to one of the most important routes in American musical history. It runs north from New Orleans, along the Mississippi and past both St. Louis and Memphis. It became known as Blues Highway, in part because it helped communicate the medium of the blues along the backbone of America. The highway does reach Dylan's home state of Minnesota and crosses into Canada, where it becomes Ontario Provincial Highway 61 and goes through Thunder Bay. Aside from saving Europe from tyranny, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill have something else in common. They liked to paint. In fact, Hallmark featured their artwork on their cards. Churchill was probably the better artist — his work can be found in dozens of art galleries around the world. What lecturer on anatomy at St. George's Hospital wrote a famous book on anatomy first published in 1858? A) Henry Brown B) Henry Gray C) Henry Green D) Henry White Previous answer: Teams from the Naval Academy are the Midshipmen. 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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