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Saturday, November 7
William Lear had quite a career, despite having dropped out after eighth grade. He sold the patent for the car radio to Galvin, which is now Motorola. He invented the 8-track tape cassette that became a '70s fad. And he founded a company that …Read more.
Friday, November 6
Built out of solid rock in the 1960s, Temppeliaukio Church is found largely underground in Helsinki. Architects Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen designed the church to burrow into solid rock, using designs that predated World War II. The back wall of the …Read more.
Thursday, November 5
Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, which celebrates the thwarting of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Fawkes and a group of Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (At the time, Catholics were severely repressed in …Read more.
Thursday, November 5
Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, which celebrates the thwarting of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Fawkes and a group of Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (At the time, Catholics were severely repressed in …Read more.
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Thursday, May 14Hollywood, in Hollywood: Paramount is the last major movie studio still in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 as Famous Players by Adolph Zukor, it is also the oldest of the Los Angeles studios, beating Universal by a month. The mountain in the logo is just a drawing of a mountain, although some claim it was based on Ben Lomond in Utah, which a studio exec knew as a boy. The logo usually has 22 stars. Urban Myths: We love a good story, just like the next guy. So we believed it when Mariah Carey supposedly said this: "When I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean, I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." According to snopes.com, the fake story was picked up by Britain's VOX magazine, which fed the story to The Independent in May 1996, after which point it was reprinted by dozens of newspapers and magazines. What Thackeray novel, subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero," does have a heroine, named Becky Sharp? A) "An American Tragedy" B) "A Passage to India" C) "Great Expectations" D) "Vanity Fair" Previous answer: A third of the world's Arabs (as opposed to Muslims generally) are in Egypt. 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.
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