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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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Trivia Bits for October 26
Heath Ledger and his sister Kate were named for the two main characters in "Wuthering Heights," later a movie starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. A 1970 version, starring future Bond star Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff, inspired an 18-year-old Kate Bush to write "Wuthering Heights," which became one of her most popular songs. Also in Britain, Prime Minister Gordon Brown compared himself to "an older Heathcliff, a wiser Heathcliff." While Dell was named for Michael Dell, who famously founded the company in a dorm room at the University of Texas at Austin, Gateway was named for its address, 610 Gateway Street in North Sioux City, Iowa. In fact, the company played up its rural origins, using packaging inspired by Holstein cows and including the tagline, "Computers from Iowa?" From 1926 to 1976, who illustrated the Boy Scout calendar that the kids used to sell door to door? A) Walt Disney B) Grandma Moses C) Norman Rockwell D) Grant Wood Previous answer: Henry Fonda's last film was "On Golden Pond." 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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