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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 9
Monday, November 9
The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago today, and soon, the rest of European communism crumbled along with it. And it likely all happened because a bureaucrat misread a poorly worded memo. Hearing that the border was open, East Germans …Read more.
Monday, November 9
Monday, November 9
The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago today, and soon, the rest of European communism crumbled along with it. And it likely all happened because a bureaucrat misread a poorly worded memo. Hearing that the border was open, East Germans …Read more.
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.
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Trivia Bits, November 20Eponym of the week: Ohio-born Charles F. Richter. Receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Caltech in 1928, he immediately went to work at Pasadena's new Seismology Laboratory, where, with co-worker Beno Gutenberg, he developed the Richter scale for measuring earthquake intensity in 1935. Richter was a lifelong skeptic about scientists' ability to predict earthquakes.
The venerable whodunit board game Clue underwent a major redesign earlier this year. The six suspects now have first names and occupations (such as actress Kasandra Scarlet) and three of the weapons (lead pipe, revolver and wrench) have been replaced with new ones (dumbbell, trophy and poison). Who played the title role in the 1950 biopic "The Jackie Robinson Story"? A) Ossie Davis B) Bill Cosby Sr. C) Sidney Poitier D) Jackie Robinson Previous answer: The radioactive decay of uranium-238 ultimately results in its transformation to the atomically stable lead-206. 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 Stan Newman at StanTrivia@aol.com or on a postcard to P.O. Box 69, Massapequa Park, NY 11762. COPYRIGHT 2008 STANLEY NEWMAN DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS SYNDICATE
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