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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2012
Tim Harper was a campus reporter for the Drake University Times-Delphic in Iowa, when he broke the biggest story of his career on Sept. 17, 1969. Except that none of it was true. That year, Paul McCartney was out of the public eye, as he mulled the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Henry James proofread the galleys for the 1903 edition of "The Ambassadors," which had been serialized in North American Review. Unfortunately, NAR had edited it down, and James wanted to restore the original version for the book. In the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 16, 2012
British post-punk group Joy Division's music wasn't especially joyful. And the origin of the name is even less so. As the story goes, the Nazis plucked the prettiest women from concentration camps and employed them in brothels for preferred soldiers.…Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Before Mickey Mouse — and before he knew much about intellectual property laws — Walt Disney created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1928 for Universal. When he and Universal parted company, Disney lost Oswald, which always rankled the …Read more.
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Tuesday, December 8Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, was once called Pile O' Bones, as Edgar Dewdney founded the city near a collection of bison bones along a railroad route. The city soon became the capital of the District of Assiniboine, and it's hard to take anyplace serious if its capital is Pile O' Bones. In 1882, it got its new name from Princess Louise, the wife of then-Governor General the Marquess of Lorne. She named it Regina for her mom, Queen Victoria. From WWII until the 1980s, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was home to drunken college debauchery every Spring Break, so much so that the place was called Fort Liqourdale. The locals did not approve. A mid-'80s crackdown, combined with a nationwide increase in the drinking age to 21, pushed the scene to Daytona Beach and then to Mexico and the Bahamas.
Edmontosaurus was discovered in what Canadian province in 1917? A) Alberta B) Manitoba C) Ontario D) Saskatchewan Previous answer: When you "think small," you think of Volkswagen. 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. Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s, and has written roughly 100,000 questions. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or e-mail him at paul@triviahalloffame.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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