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...minutes left in a tie game at Buffalo, Gretzky scooped up a loose puck, zigged and zagged his way through two defenders, and broke free. He sailed across the mouth of the goal and daintily flicked his left wrist. Before Goaltender Don Edwards knew it, he had become a trivia question. Later, after being dug out from under a pile-up of his teammates, Gretzky was presented the puck by Phil Esposito, who held the old record. "It's a tremendous relief," Gretzky told...
Turning to another pattern, cubism brings together the American fascinations with the trivia and the inventive Cleverly designed, the cube appeals to a nation that is home to electric can openers, touch-tone phones, and canned hot shaving cream. Americans love garish toys tinged with plastic high tech and the ubiquitous "New, Improved!" label--skateboards with polyurethane wheels, very square exotica from a Hungarian mathematician...
...sports enthusiast, there's The Macmillan Baseball Calendar, which includes key dates from the past as well as those coming up next year. On October 20, 1910, for example, cork-centered baseballs were used for the first time. Stick that in some trivia expert's pipe and have him smoke...
...forests. Sailing, a humorous dictionary for the boating enthusiast, offers knee-slapping definitions; "current", for example, means "tidal flow that carries a boat away from its desired destination, or toward a hazard." Pretty funny, huh? And the all-new Bathroom Almanac aims at giving you a digestible amount of trivia every day. With books like these, who needs toilet paper...
Four seniors this weekend won the Harvard College Bowl Championship and may go on to compete in the national competition, which tests college students from across the country on their knowledge of trivia...