General Trivia thread (the more obscure the better)

[tapintoamerica]

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.

That is an amazing factoid.

 

[Liut]

IIRC, the highest since 9-11-01 is the 2016 Dallas Police ambush in which five were killed.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

George A. Romero, of Night of the Living Dead Fame, got his professional start directing segments for what's children's show?

 

[goalmouth]

George A. Romero, of Night of the Living Dead Fame, got his professional start directing segments for what's children's show?

No idea, but I once played golf with a woman who played a zombie in the original Dawn of the Dead, when she was at Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh where it was filmed.

 

[goalmouth]

Not a question, but I just found out that most golf courses in Japan have separate greens for warm weather and cold weather.

 

[Spartan Squad]

George A. Romero, of Night of the Living Dead Fame, got his professional start directing segments for what's children's show?

Mr Rogers?

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Mr Rogers?

That is correct.

 

[garrow]

There are only two doubly landlocked* countries in the world. Which countries are they?


*landlocked countries that only border landlocked countries.

 

[Spartan Squad]

There are only two doubly landlocked* countries in the world. Which countries are they?


*landlocked countries that only border landlocked countries.

I dropped this bit of trivia on my geography students: Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein. And you have to understand the Caspian is technically a lake.

 

[garrow]

I dropped this bit of trivia on my geography students: Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein. And you have to understand the Caspian is technically a lake.

Correct!

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Name the second British group to appear on the Ed Sullivan show. Hint, their first single knocked "I want to hold your hand" off the top spot on the charts.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Name the second British group to appear on the Ed Sullivan show. Hint, their first single knocked "I want to hold your hand" off the top spot on the charts.

You sure you have this one right? Didn't the Beatles knock themselves off the top spot?