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...intently. "The old democratic coalition is going"--right arm waves frantically to the side--"going"--a little more frantic waving--"gone!--waving climaxes and is accompanied by a little jump from seat. Ever the educator, Rather, as he announced each state's returns, punctuated his comments with a little trivia--"Michigan, the Wolverine state, goes to Reagan; Wisconsin, the dairy state..."--as if the electoral process were some sort of grammar school pageant sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce. Confronted with Reagan's landslide, and well aware of what such an obvious outcome might do to his viewership, Rather...
Consumers, however, do not know inflation as a single abstract statistic. To them it is a hundred prices that hit them daily. Raymond DeVoe Jr., author of a Wall Street market letter, compiles an annual trivia index of items on sale within a few blocks of his Manhattan office. Included on his 46-point list is everything from a Broadway ticket (up 23% over the past two years) to a session at a podiatrist's office (25%) to a local telephone call (150%). Says DeVoe of his findings: "They represent another reason why so many people remain unconvinced that...
...first time around. The queries were familiar, Worth claims, because he wrote them. Last week in Los Angeles federal court Worth slapped the Canadian creators of the game with a $300 million lawsuit, charging copyright infringement. A former air-traffic controller, Worth is the author of nine books on trivia and currently writes for the ABC quiz show Trivia Trap...
Worth spent two months comparing his books with the game and concluded that the authors cribbed heavily from his Complete Unabridged Super Trivia Encyclopedia of 1978 and its sequel of 1981. He alleges that the Genus edition is 33% his work and the Silver Screen version 22%. Worth says the authors often filched his exact wording, even picking up his mistakes. Chris Haney, one of the game's three authors, claims that dozens of people have sued them. Says he: "A guy in Ireland claims he invented the game ten years ago." Trivia fans this year are expected...
...themselves facing electronic signboards that tout everything from beer to Broadway shows. The computerized messages march in inch-high letters across the boards, which are set atop a glass partition between driver and rider. Each 10-sec. plug is part of a cycle that includes public service notices and trivia questions for variety, and repeats itself every four minutes...