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Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
Friday, November 20
Last month, we looked at Earth's prime meridian. There is a prime meridian on Mars, too. It runs through the crater Airy-0, which is named for British Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy. And as it happens, he built the "transit circle" …Read more.
Thursday, November 19
One of the titans of animation was Isadore Freleng, nicknamed Friz for his frizzie hair. He had been part of the Kansas City clique of animators working for Disney before moving to Warner Brothers, where he was a key person behind such characters as …Read more.
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WEEK OF OCTOBER 5Monday, October 5 The M.C. Escher drawing called "Relativity" is notable because the stairs it depicts go nowhere. In fact, there are three different sources of gravity, one for each stairwell. The painting inspired one of the couch gags in the opening for "The Simpsons" and a gag in "The Family Guy," in which Escher sings MC Hammer''s "U Can't Touch This" within the painting. (Weird Al also joked that his favorite MC was M.C. Escher.) Countries have their own Internet domains: Canada's is .ca, and Britain's is .uk. Even dead countries have domains. When Czechoslovakia broke up, it gave up .cs and the new bits, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, adopted .cz and .sk. The .cs domain was assigned to Serbia, but the Serbs kept using .yu, the old Yugoslavian domain. You've struck a deal with business contacts in the United Arab Emirates. What is the nationality of your business partners? A) Arabesque B) Arabemiri C) Emirati D) Uaeian Previous answer: The letters in "eleven plus two" can be rearranged to spell "twelve plus one." This is an anagram. 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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