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Trivia Bits Thursday, June 18

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And He's Married to a Swede: Tiger Woods is arguably the first post-racial celebrity. He is a quarter Chinese, a quarter Thai, a quarter African-American, an eighth Native American and an eighth Dutch. Complicating things, his African American father is a quarter Chinese and his Thai mother is also a quarter Chinese. Woods himself prefers to be known not as Asian or black but as a Cablinasian. Or better still, as Tiger.

Interplanetary Chaos: When Mike Brown's team at Palomar found UB313, out past Neptune, they probably had no idea they were about to overturn decades of schoolbook wisdom. They initially nicknamed the prospective planet Xena, not for a Greco-Roman god, but for a TV hero.

It turned out that Xena was larger than Pluto. And there were a lot more little Xena-type bodies out there. Eventually, it was renamed Eris, for the Greek goddess of chaos, and rather than let it into the planetary club, scientists instead demoted Pluto.

In what book would you find the Rodent of Unusual Size?

A) "Alice in Wonderland"

B) "The Chronicles of Narnia" series

C) "The Princess Bride"

D) "Winnie the Pooh"

Previous answer: The show-within-a-show on "Home Improvement" was "Tool Time."

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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