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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.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 11, 2012
Charlie Chaplin was a great artist, but he was also consumed by a form of pedophilia called phebophilia, which is an overwhelming attraction for teenage girls. He married and divorced two underage girls. One of them, Lita Grey, he married because …Read more.
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Trivia Bits Monday, June 29Elementary: Arthur Conan Doyle may have created Sherlock Holmes, that paragon of dispassionate logic, but he was himself fascinated by the occult and easily fooled. In particular, he was completely fooled by a couple of schoolgirl hoaxers, who faked some amateur photographs using paper cutouts of fairies. These became known as the Cottingley Fairies. But some say he had the last laugh at science's expense: He is a prime suspect in the Piltdown hoax, which set back the paleontological study of early humanity by decades. Tin Cans Are Precious: Aluminum is now considered one of the "poor metals," but it was once considered more precious than gold, so much so that Napoleon III used it to make knives, forks and plates for his honored guests.
When the Beatles "saw her standing there," she was just the same age as the man Joan Jett saw "dancin' there by the record machine." What age? A) 15 B) 16 C) 17 D) 18 Previous answer: Don the Beachcomber's stiff drink is called a zombie. 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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