General Trivia thread (the more obscure the better)

Who was the most famous entertainment figure to testify before Congressional committees investigating the Payola scandal?
(I know "most famous" is subjective in general, but this one's really not up for debate.)

 

Dick Clark?

 

Correct.
American Scandal podcast covers this topic very well.

 

Prior to 9/11/2001, what single incident resulted in the greatest loss of life among law enforcement officers?

 

San Francisco earthquake?

 

In the US or worldwide?

 

Oklahoma City?

 

Sorry, in US history.

 

No.

 

The Bowling Green Massacre.

 

I like it, but ... no.

On Nov. 24, 1917, a bomb exploded in the central police station in Milwaukee, killing nine department members and a civilian. According to a 2017 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story, that was the highest police death toll in a single incident in US history until 9-11. Here's a link and an excerpt of the story. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news...-worst-loss-police-life-until-9-11/886589001/

By Ashley Luthern
An 11-year-old girl spotted the package first.

She tugged on the arm of her mother, who was cleaning the Italian Evangelical Mission Church, a Protestant church in Milwaukee’s heavily Sicilian Third Ward.

Her mother looked at the package and alerted a church organist, who found it suspicious and called police. The church’s pastor had been the subject of earlier controversy.

After at least two hours of waiting for officers, the organist asked another church member, Sam Mazzone, to carry the package to the Central Police Station downtown.

That evening, Nov. 24, 1917, the package exploded at the station, killing nine police department members and one civilian.

It was the largest single loss of police life in U.S. history until the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

 

I never heard of that