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...Tennessee, August is the occasion of the Elvis International Tribute, a week in which 15,000 Presley fans convene to watch a competition among Elvis impersonators, to participate in an Elvis trivia contest and to pay homage. Crowds also flock to the Wild and Wacky Raft Race in Miami, the bathtub race in San Diego and the equally exciting Hermit Crab Races in Ocean City, N.J. In Illinois' state fair there is both a hog-calling and a husband-calling contest, in which a woman calls for her husband, who has been calling hogs. First prize was taken by Kathy...
...shows in the database, only 2,500 of them have content that's fully fleshed out, so the idea is to have fans help fill in the rest. Register for a free account to write (or edit) plot summaries and episode recaps, contribute trivia tidbits or write reviews. (The website's editors review every submission before it is posted.) The News page reports tidbits like Patrick Stewart's heart-attack scare and Megan Mullally's talk show deal. For a snarkier take on what's on the tube, there's always televisionwithoutpity.com...
Cocktails in the sky just didn't seem like enough to Joanne Smith, who, as marketing chief at Song, the budget arm of Delta Airlines, added novel customer activities--from an in-flight exercise program to an interactive trivia game that pits passengers against one another. Since taking over as Song's president in January, Smith, 46, has kept moving, sprucing up the menu and giving every employee her cell-phone number to solicit complaints and troll for new ideas. She spoke with TIME's Jeremy Caplan about what's next on the horizon...
...Geese, a maintenance man for the California Public Utilities Commission, was not pleased last January when he discovered that his grandson Kenneth, 10, had made about 2,000 calls to a sports-trivia number. Kenneth had won a television set in the process, but he had also run up a $1,316 bill in calls to the special number. Extra-charge telephone numbers that begin with 976 are now available in nearly two dozen states. Says O'Geese: "I think it's wrong. They should explain to kids that there is a charge for the service...
...Puritan New England belt. It’s not the drinking symbolized by the pub that matters (though a pre-lecture Guinness is delightful). It’s about having one place, one central place, for every single student, whether they’re fomenting revolution or playing a trivia game. My brother met a lass or 10 at his student union, a friend of mine sat up late talking with a professor at his campus...