Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will like Wrebbit's jigsaw puzzles: fit the pieces together onscreen to create a Bavarian castle or Victorian mansion, then explore the finished building in 3-D. Austin Powers goes head-to-head with Dr. Evil in Berkeley Systems' newest addition to the cheeky You Don't Know Jack trivia series. And in keeping with the latest trend in the toy business--coupling hardware with software--Mattel will show its Me2Cam, a digital camera that drops your live image into a (G-rated) virtual-reality game. Even the new Star Wars titles steer clear of the combat-heavy themes...
...projections of a generation's still-fragile heritage, not as a trilogy of George Lucas movies. Since those movies came out, a generation of Americans have made them an almost-religious touchstone, and in the last decade the Star Wars franchise has generated a canon of Star Wars trivia, coming in the form of trashy novels and pretentious "technical manuals." This new movie, then, comes as a banal realization of rumors that have been circulating for 20 years...
...novel Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg employed all manner of transport--steamers, railways, yachts, carriages, trading vessels, sledges and even elephants. But no balloon. It was Hollywood, not Jules Verne, that sent the intrepid Brit off in that aircraft. Trivia, you say? But there was nothing trivial about the real-life fulfillment of what seemed to be quixotic fantasy last week in Northern Africa. In a 180-ft.-high balloon, a silvery dare in the air, two adventurers--Swiss psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard, 41, and British balloon instructor Brian Jones, 51--completed their tour of the world...
...seems that Harvard students have to have a right answer for everything. Not content with merely impressing their dates with an expansive knowledge of obscure trivia, they have decided to take the great matters of the world into their hands. While most college students are preparing to embark on spring break to enjoy the good life, Harvard students will be preparing to take on the afterlife. And when Dartboard gets back from Mexico with stockpiles of Cuervo Gold to help us through finals, we fully expect the Harvard Secular Society and the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Association will be prepared...
...before you graduate. New England's tallest building offers 100-mile views from its famed 60th floor windows--on a good day you can see New Hampshire's White Mountains. Visitors watch multimedia re-enactments of the American Revolution and play with "Funscopes." The Observatory's got great trivia games, too. Did you know the John Hancock building has precisely 10,344 windows? John Hancock Tower, Hancock Plaza and Copley Square. Ticket office: Trinity Place and St. James Ave. 572-6429. Open M-Sa 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Su 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. $4.25. T-stop: Copley...