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Saturday, March 20
One of the more peculiar, but lesser known, incidents in the Apollo mission occurred when an astronaut gave himself communion on the moon. Buzz Aldrin used a kit prepared by his pastor back home. The incident occurred during radio silence, to avoid …Read more.
Friday, March 19
To fight prostate cancer, the AdMeTech Foundation introduced Prosty the Spokesgland, whose theme song was sung to the tune of "Frosty the Snowman." The rousing chorus was, "Look at Prosty grow/Lumpety lump lump/Lumpety lump lump/No …Read more.
Thursday, March 18
ASCAP doesn't mess around. It will sue your butt off if you violate the copyright of its members. In 1995, ASCAP announced that unless it got fees of up $1,400 from each site, it would take legal action resulting in six-figure fines or a year in …Read more.
Wednesday, March 17
If you grew up in the 1980s, you may remember those GI Joe public service announcements. Eric Fensler parodied those PSAs on his website, adding non sequiturs. Hasbro was not amused. It sent in lawyers. But there were plans to slip the exclamation …Read more.
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Wednesday, November 4
Thirty years ago today, militant Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 90 staff and U.S. Marines hostage. Several women and African Americans were released, as well as one very ill man. A number of Americans hid in the Canadian embassy, which smuggled them out. The remaining 52 hostages were released 444 days later. One of the students, by the way, may have been Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even under Communist rule, Catholics, including John Paul II, came to visit Lithuania's Hill of Crosses. For centuries, Catholic pilgrims have come and left behind crucifixes, and today there are some 50,000 of them there. Many of the crosses were left in memory of Lithuanian rebels who disappeared during anti-Russian rebellions in the 1800s, so the site has special significance when Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union, which tore down many of the crosses. What name is shared by Philip Pirrip in a Dickens book, by a South Park character and by each member of Gladys Knight's backup band? A) Pap B) Pip C) Pop D) Pup Previous answer: Stockholm is Sweden's capital. 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. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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