Word: trivia
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have ended up doing nothing.” “It seems like there are a lot of opportunities here at Harvard,” said Ruoyu Zhang, another prefrosh, from San Jose. Billing itself as a “night of music, trivia, games, food, and a movie in Harvard’s very own movie theater,” one entertainment event—Saturday night’s “Pre-frosh Penthouse Party” at the Student Organization Center at Hilles—drew less-than-enthusiastic reviews from several attendees...
...like juggle or anything, I wish I could. I’m not that cool. I know a lot about the “Golden Girls,” though, so I’d be really good at “Golden Girls” Trivia. 7. FM: We saw on your Twitter that on Oct. 2, 2008, a bird pooped on your hair, and that on March 14, 2009, a bird pooped in your beer. Some cultures think that bird poop is a sign of good luck. Anything lucky happen recently? SBB: Ummm...I don?...
...Official timeout. Now's a good time for some trivia that only matters to me. Carnesecca Arena is named after legendary Red Storm coach Lou Carnesecca. First person to email me (lamor@fas.harvard.edu) the high school where Carnesecca started his fabled coaching career gets a fake free gift card to Red Line (Hint: the answer is on my Facebook profile...
...limited-edition retro soda will be made with “real sugar” to give consumers a taste of the flavor of the 60s and 70s, before high-fructose corn syrup replaced cane sugar in 1984. From the way websites have pounced on this bit of pop trivia, you’d think this soda is the solution to obesity. However, the truth is that while the halo of “pure cane sugar” may help Americans sleep at night, it’s not going to do anything for our waistlines.Two months before...
...University of California, San Diego; Tom Meyvis, a marketing professor at New York University's Stern School of Business; and Jeff Galak, an NYU doctoral student - asked subjects to watch an episode of the Emmy-winning sitcom Taxi. The episode, "Louie's Mother," originally aired in 1981 (trivia buffs: Julia DeVito, the real-life mother of Danny DeVito, who starred as cab dispatcher Louie De Palma on the show, played the episode's title role). The researchers chose Taxi because the subjects, 87 undergraduates from NYU, had no pre-existing opinion of the show. (See the 100 best TV shows...