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Saturday, May 26
Fritz Haber became the "father of chemical warfare" after he developed chlorine gas for the German army during World War I. It was considered a major step forward in military brutality. He also worked on an insecticide called Zyklon B. And …Read more.
Friday, May 25
Many video games have cheat codes. The most famous is the Konami Code, which developer Kazuhisa Hashimoto created because he thought Gradius was impossible to play otherwise. There are variations, but it typically goes like this: up, up, down, down, …Read more.
Thursday, May 24
During WWI, British munitions minister David Lloyd George met Chaim Weizmann in Manchester. Weizmann was working on synthetic rubber, and a byproduct of that process was acetone. The British military needed acetone because its supply from Europe was …Read more.
Wednesday, May 23
You'd think young men have been giving their fiancÇes diamond rings for centuries. Perhaps, but it only became an Ironclad social rule after De Beers hired the ad agency NW Ayer & Son in 1939. They developed the slogan
"A Diamond is …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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