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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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Trivia Bits Tuesday, June 23Montreal Hockey: The Montreal Canadiens are the only current team to win a Stanley Cup before joining the NHL. They are heroes for the cities French-speaking population. There used to be a team for the city's Anglophones. They were called the Montreal Wanderers. They folded after their arena burned down and were replaced by the Montreal Maroons, the last Stanley Cup winning team to fold, doing so when a plan to move them to Philadelphia came to naught in 1947. Hooray for Fort Lee, N.J.: When Hollywood was just a citrus grove, the movie industry was being born in New Jersey, where people flocked to use Thomas Edison's new invention. If you can wholly see the Holy See from your hotel, what can you see? A) Forbidden City B) Hagia Sophia C) Jerusalem Old City D) Vatican City Previous answer: Wayne Gretzky scored 894 goals. 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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