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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 31Abbey Road is most famous as the Beatles' recording studio. It is named for a street that runs through St. John's Wood in London. The studio itself is at 3 Abbey Rd., and it was out in front of that studio that they shot the famous picture of them crossing the street. The studio itself was built in a Georgian-era home that was converted for use in 1928 by composer Edward Elgar. In 2006, former 'N Sync member and attempted astronaut Lance Bass came out of the closet while he was dating a former contestant from "The Amazing Race." That contestant, Reichen Lehmkuhl, won season four, along with then-partner Chip Arndt. Actually, being gay isn't interesting anymore. But the astronaut part is. He was scheduled to fly on the Soyuz TMA-1 mission in 2002, but that fell apart when his sponsorships fell through. In honor of one of his heroes, what number did LeBron James choose when he started playing for the Cavs? A) 13 B) 23 C) 32 D) 33 Previous answer: Cosmic radiation is good for fictional astronauts like the Fantastic Four, but bad for real ones. 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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