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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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Wednesday, December 2Disney likes to say that "The Lion King" was its first movie not based on pre-existing source material. And that may be the case. But "The Lion King" does bear a suspicious similarity to the Japanese anime TV show, "Kimba the White Lion," also known as the Jungle Emperor. For example, Kimba talked to his dead dad in the clouds and got advice from a wise mandrill while coping with comic relief hyenas. Sound familiar? Clark Gable proposed to Carole Lombard in booth 54 of the Brown Derby in Hollywood. There were actually several Brown Derby restaurants, part of a chain famous for buildings that were literally hat-shaped. The chain was launched by Bob Cobb, for whom the Cobb salad was named.
What was Angela's last name in "Angela's Ashes"? A) Doyle B) Kennedy C) McCourt D) O'Reilly Previous answer: Calvin's cardboard box became a transmogrifier. 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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