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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 Wednesday, June 3Creamy Blind Faith: The first supergroup was Cream, a blues rock outfit that included guitarist Eric Clapton, drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce. Replace Bruce with Steve Winwood and you have another superband, Blind Faith, which only recorded one album. And that album ran into lots of trouble for putting a topless tween girl on the cover. (Clapton had also been in the Yardbirds, which was more like a superstar training camp: Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were also members.) Weird Superbands: It's not unusual for members of different bands to come together. What is unusual is an amalgam of punk, metal and new wave. Neurotic Outsiders came together as a 1995 jam band at the Viper Room in L.A. Can you answer this in the heat of the moment? Steve Howe from Yes and Carl Palmer from ELP were part of what continentally named supergroup? A) Africa B) America C) Asia D) Europe Previous answer: Joe Walsh was the "new kid in town" with the Eagles. 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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