Trivia Bits, November 10 by Stan Newman on Creators.com

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Thursday, March 18 ASCAP doesn't mess around. It will sue your butt off if you violate the copyright of its members. In 1995, ASCAP announced that unless it got fees of up $1,400 from each site, it would take legal action resulting in six-figure fines or a year in …Read more. Wednesday, March 17 If you grew up in the 1980s, you may remember those GI Joe public service announcements. Eric Fensler parodied those PSAs on his website, adding non sequiturs. Hasbro was not amused. It sent in lawyers. But there were plans to slip the exclamation …Read more. Tuesday, March 16 Thanks to the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington has become queen of the liberal bloggers. But it wasn't always that way. She was born Arianna Stassinopoulos in Greece but married oil millionaire, and future Republican congressman, Michael …Read more. Monday, March 15 The original version of the charity song "We Are the World" was recorded when a lot of stars were in town anyway, for the American Music Awards. And it certainly attracted some of the creme de la creme of the music biz in the '80s — …Read more.

Word of the week: "transliteracy," which is the ability to read, write and interact using multiple media, including the latest electronic media such as Facebook and MySpace. The term was coined just a few years ago by a team of researchers in the English department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Ken Clark of Kent, Wash., asks us about words like "emcee," that are spelled-out versions of the letters that they stand for. We've been unable to discover a specific term for these "acronym opposites." Is there one? Ken is also looking for more instances of two-letter reversals of words like these, to add to "kayo" and "okay," plus "jayvee" and "veejay." If you can help with either of these, please let us know.

"For the benefit of all" is the motto of:
A) The Red Cross
B) NASA
C) The London Police
D) The United Way

Previous answer: According to Guinness World Records, the world's most dangerous bird is the cassowary of Australia, which has razor-sharp claws and can reach speeds up to 30 miles per hour.

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