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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 16, 2012
British post-punk group Joy Division's music wasn't especially joyful. And the origin of the name is even less so. As the story goes, the Nazis plucked the prettiest women from concentration camps and employed them in brothels for preferred soldiers.…Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Before Mickey Mouse — and before he knew much about intellectual property laws — Walt Disney created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1928 for Universal. When he and Universal parted company, Disney lost Oswald, which always rankled the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Today we look at the unhappy history of celebrity stalkers. Robert Bardo became obsessed with young actor Rebecca Schaeffer. He hired a private investigator to find out where she lived and shot her to death, leading the LAPD to set up a Threat …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Some TV and movie stars sing on hit records. Others have criminal records. For example, in 1970, Suzanne Somers was arrested for passing bad checks. Larry King was accused of larceny after siphoning off cash intended to fund the New Orleans DA's …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for Saturday, August 8Hometown Hawaii: The University of Hawaii only appeared once in the Aloha Bowl, losing 33-13 to Michigan State in 1989. Usually played on Christmas Day, the game ran from 1982 until 2000, when it lost its sponsor, Jeep Corporation, due to the merger with DaimlerChrysler. The game was often a double-header with the Oahu Bowl, which also collapsed in 2000, although for a couple years, the game soldiered on as the Seattle Bowl. Winston's Kids on the Silver Screen: One of Winston Churchill's children had a minor acting career, getting nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 1953 and, most notably, appearing as Anne Ashmond, the love interest for Fred Astaire in the 1951 film "Royal Wedding." By the time she died, she had become Sarah Millicent Hermione Tuchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley.
What nanny is blown by a windstorm to the Banks family home at No. 17 Cherry Tree Lane in London? A) Fran Fine B) Jo Frost C) Nanny McPhee D) Mary Poppins Previous answer: United Airlines got its name from the airlines merged to create it. 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.
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