Recently
Wednesday, November 25
Mortified by reports of famine in Ethiopia, Bob Geldof and Ultravox's Midge Ure wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas," and 25 years ago today, some of Britain's top stars recorded the song at Trevor Horn's SARM West studio. Bob George flew …Read more.
Tuesday, November 24
It was 150 years ago today that Charles Darwin saw the publication of "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," which explained evolution and made possible another century of scientific advances. Darwin dawdled considerably …Read more.
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 23
Monday, November 23
When he was 13, Roald Dahl got a chance to be a taste-tester for a focus group at Cadbury, along with his classmates at Repton in Darbyshire. At the time, Cadbury and Rowntree engaged in bitter corporate espionage. It all …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
more articles
|
Trivia Bits Wednesday, June 10Flintstones with Robots: The Jetsons might be a cult classic TV family today, but their series was actually a flop when it originally ran. It lasted just one season, producing only 24 episodes during the 1962-63 TV season. But as it gained in popularity in syndication, another two years of shows were made in the mid-80s. Whereas the original focused on the wonders of rocketry, the newer episodes looked more at computers. Go Ahead, Make My Lunch: Introduced in Oklahoma in 1987, a "Make My Day" law reinforces your right to use armed force to defend your home against intruders. This is also called the castle doctrine, as in "your home is your castle." The opposing idea is that you have a "duty to retreat" from an attack. What country is named after a Genoese explorer? A) Bermuda B) Bolivia C) Colombia D) Dominican Republic Previous answer: The westernmost national capital in the Western Hemisphere is actually Mexico City. 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.
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
