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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 26Heath Ledger and his sister Kate were named for the two main characters in "Wuthering Heights," later a movie starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. A 1970 version, starring future Bond star Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff, inspired an 18-year-old Kate Bush to write "Wuthering Heights," which became one of her most popular songs. Also in Britain, Prime Minister Gordon Brown compared himself to "an older Heathcliff, a wiser Heathcliff." While Dell was named for Michael Dell, who famously founded the company in a dorm room at the University of Texas at Austin, Gateway was named for its address, 610 Gateway Street in North Sioux City, Iowa. In fact, the company played up its rural origins, using packaging inspired by Holstein cows and including the tagline, "Computers from Iowa?" From 1926 to 1976, who illustrated the Boy Scout calendar that the kids used to sell door to door? A) Walt Disney B) Grandma Moses C) Norman Rockwell D) Grant Wood Previous answer: Henry Fonda's last film was "On Golden Pond." 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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