A bit of a shortened version this week
What was the first cable TV network in the U.S.?
Was it HBO (Home box office)??
Curio Wrote:Was it HBO (Home box office)??
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It was established in 1972 by Time Inc.
In what month do Russians commemorate the 1917 October Revolution?
Curio Wrote:The month of November.
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On November 7. Russia was using the Julian calendar at the time, and was 13 days behind our modern Greorian calendar, so November 7 was our October 25. It switched to the Grepgorian calendar in 1918.
What wacky movie - and broadway musical - borrowed a key character's name from Irish writer James Joyce?
Me thinks I've left this question up long enough :haha:
:cheer: for me :p
The Producers. Mousy accountant Leo Bloom is named for Leopold Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses. Writer-producer Mel Brooks made his bow to Joyce clear by having Bloom meet producer Max Bialystock on June 16, the day all action in Ulysses takes place.
In the Batman comics, what was the name of Bruce Wayne's butler?
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What was the name of the political party founded by Texas billionaire Ross Perot in 1995?