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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, October 21Who was Charles Joseph Bonaparte, and why should you care about him? A grandnephew of Napoleon I, C.J. served in Teddy Roosevelt's cabinet as secretary of the Navy and attorney general. In the latter capacity, Mr. B. created the Bureau of Investigation in 1908, now known as the F.B.I. (Thanks to Ken Clark of Kent, Wash.)
Prime Time: In addition to England, the other nations through which the Earth's prime meridian of longitude passes through are France and Spain in Europe, and Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo and Ghana in Africa. The moon's prime meridian lies in the center of the side visible from Earth. Mars has one, too, defined by the crater Airy-0, which was named for a 19th-century Greenwich astronomer. Completed in 1942, Washington State's Grand Coulee Dam is the largest hydroelectric power facility and the largest concrete structure in the United States.
A) A Native American leader B) A deep ravine C) A type of evergreen tree D) A snow-covered mountain Previous answer: According to the International Olympic Committee, Coca-Cola is the longest continuous corporate sponsor of the Olympic Games, since 1928. 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 Stan Newman at StanTrivia@aol.com or on a postcard to P.O. Box 69, Massapequa Park, NY 11762. Stanley Newman is the editor of the Newsday Crossword and author/editor of more than 125 books on crosswords, word games and trivia, including "15,003 Answers: The Ultimate Trivia Encyclopedia" (Random House). To find out more about Stanley Newman visit StanXwords.com, or e-mail him at StanTrivia@aol.com. COPYRIGHT 2008 STANLEY NEWMAN DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS SYNDICATE
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