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Saturday, May 26
Fritz Haber became the "father of chemical warfare" after he developed chlorine gas for the German army during World War I. It was considered a major step forward in military brutality. He also worked on an insecticide called Zyklon B. And …Read more.
Friday, May 25
Many video games have cheat codes. The most famous is the Konami Code, which developer Kazuhisa Hashimoto created because he thought Gradius was impossible to play otherwise. There are variations, but it typically goes like this: up, up, down, down, …Read more.
Thursday, May 24
During WWI, British munitions minister David Lloyd George met Chaim Weizmann in Manchester. Weizmann was working on synthetic rubber, and a byproduct of that process was acetone. The British military needed acetone because its supply from Europe was …Read more.
Wednesday, May 23
You'd think young men have been giving their fiancÇes diamond rings for centuries. Perhaps, but it only became an Ironclad social rule after De Beers hired the ad agency NW Ayer & Son in 1939. They developed the slogan
"A Diamond is …Read more.
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Trivia Bits Monday, June 22One Eye on My Pocket: You hardly ever see people wearing eye patches anymore, although they are still used to treat "lazy eye." Sailors in general, and pirates in particular, wore eye patches, not only to cover up lost eyes, but so that one eye would be "set" above deck and the other "set" for the darkened areas below decks. Famous fictional eye patch wearers include the Hathaway Man, Nick Fury, Bazooka Joe, Snake Plissken and Rooster Cogburn. Science Turns on Darwin: No, not that one. Charles Darwin developed a widely accepted theory of evolution. His son George Darwin was not so lucky. His theory that the moon was pulled from the Earth is not widely accepted at all.
Which of these is not a 1600? A) The goals Wayne Gretzky scored B) The one-time maximum SAT score C) The ounces to a hundredweight D) The White House street address Previous answer: The yowie is an Australian Bigfoot. 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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