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Saturday, November 7
William Lear had quite a career, despite having dropped out after eighth grade. He sold the patent for the car radio to Galvin, which is now Motorola. He invented the 8-track tape cassette that became a '70s fad. And he founded a company that …Read more.
Friday, November 6
Built out of solid rock in the 1960s, Temppeliaukio Church is found largely underground in Helsinki. Architects Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen designed the church to burrow into solid rock, using designs that predated World War II. The back wall of the …Read more.
Thursday, November 5
Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, which celebrates the thwarting of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Fawkes and a group of Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (At the time, Catholics were severely repressed in …Read more.
Thursday, November 5
Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, which celebrates the thwarting of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Fawkes and a group of Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (At the time, Catholics were severely repressed in …Read more.
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Trivia Bits Thursday, June 18And 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. 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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