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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 23You occasionally get people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed on government grounds. Usually, they're insisting on the wrong 10, at least if you're Catholic. Catholics edit the Protestant Second Commandment, with that business about false idols, and instead split the Tenth Commandment in two, instead. Oddly, in Mark 10:19, when Jesus says, "Thou knowest the commandments," his list skips four of them, including the one about graven images. Scriptwriter Stirling Silliphant merged two novels, "The Tower" by Richard Martin Stern and "The Glass Inferno" by Thomas Scortia and Frank Robinson, to create his script for "The Towering Inferno." Another mash-up trick with the billing appeased two titanic rivals. Neither Steve McQueen nor Paul Newman would give up top billing, so one name is higher up but further left. The 100th episode of "Frasier," aired in November 1997, was filmed on location in what city, where the show was set? A) Cincinnati B) Minneapolis C) San Francisco D) Seattle Previous answer: Muhammad is the most common first name in the world. The Chinese name Lee is the most common surname. 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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