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Saturday, January 30
Not all students are fans of their school's sports teams. Some have used votes on team mascot names as a chance to poke fun at the whole sports-obsessed culture on campuses. That's why the University of California-Irvine named its team the Anteaters,…Read more.
Friday, January 29
One of the biggest comedians of the 1970s was born Frederick Karl Pruetzel, to a Hungarian father from Germany. He also had a Puerto Rican mother, though, and you know him as Freddie Prinze. In his stand-up routines, he called himself a Hunga Rican …Read more.
Thursday, January 28
A few days ago, we mentioned that there were two well-known George Wallaces. There are also two somewhat-well-known George Segals. One George Segal is the banjo-playing actor best known for roles on the TV show "Just Shoot Me" and in the …Read more.
Wednesday, January 27
When you think Freemasons, you think of powerful white men, covertly pulling the levers of power in their ruthless quest for world domination. And, also, Richard Pryor. The comic legend joined Henry Brown Lodge No. 22 in Peoria, Ill., a year after …Read more.
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Wednesday, November 18
Harry Potter's Sorcerer's Stone was called the Philosopher's Stone in the British edition. Historically, alchemists sought to create a philosopher's stone to make their own gold. In 1980, Glenn Seaborg succeeded when centuries of alchemists had failed, when he converted trillionths of a gram of lead into gold, albeit at mind-boggling cost in energy. Knott's Berry Farm is now an amusement park, but it was once, in fact, a berry farm, operated by Walter Knott. He had single-handedly revived a large, reddish-purple berry called the boysenberry, after he and a U.S. Department of Agriculture official found some vines on Rudolph Boysen's abandoned farm. The Knotts started serving chicken to augment berry sales and built attractions to entertain people waiting for their food. What '70s TV icon was Jennifer Aniston's godfather and Nicollette Sheridan's stepfather? A) Alan Alda B) Walter Cronkite C) Redd Foxx D) Telly Savalas Previous answer: The Masters of the Universe were Wall Street brokers. 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.
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