Even a hasty reader will easily find in it numerous blind spots, errors of fact and argument, important exclusions, areas of ignorance and prejudice, undue emphases on trivia, examples of broad positions supported by flimsy evidence, and the like.

In fact, the two best-selling titles in AH's history were Outdoor Survival and the trivia game Facts in Five.

A little more unusual is his encyclopedic knowledge of trivia ( this is attributed to his grandparents having been librarians ); a range of uncanny abilities, most notably his ability to sniff and lick refuse from the streets to gain clues about crimes ; the way he can fall into a dumpster or other waste heap and emerge completely spotless and unwrinkled ; and the way every woman he encounters falls madly in love with him, including his boss Margaret ( Meg ) Thatcher and Ray's sister Francesca ; his total obliviousness to this and the fact that he rarely pursues any of the offers the ladies extend to him is part of his charm.

One note of trivia surrounding the theory is that in his original paper Drude made a conceptual error, estimating electrical conductivity to in fact be only half of what it classically should have been.

Merezhkovsky was more tolerant: for the first time in the two decades he saw a leader who'd be able to take the whole of Antichrist Kingdom upon himself, this single fact outweighing for him other trivia — like that of his own Joan of Arc ( 1939 ) being banned in Germany on the day of its release.

The epigraph was not Poe's invention ; such an inscription had been reported, no later than 1803, as having been composed with the intention ( possibly facetious ) of having it placed on the site, and it had appeared, without attribution, as an item of trivia in the 1836 Southern Literary Messenger, a periodical to which Poe contributed.

In 1992, a Fighting Fantasy 10th Anniversary Yearbook ( a diary with articles, trivia and a gamebook ) complete with a boxed set of dice and character sheets was published.

Similarly, UMG Recordings, Inc. was fined US $ 400, 000 for COPPA violations in connection with a Web site that promoted the then 13-year-old pop star Lil ' Romeo, and hosted child-oriented games and activities, and Bonzi Software, which offered downloads of an animated figure " BonziBuddy " that provided shopping advice, jokes, and trivia was fined US $ 75, 000 for COPPA violations.

In the channel's early days, Club A. M. was a three-hour block consisting of five classic game shows, surrounded by thirty minutes ' worth of interstitial trivia, interviews with game show producers, personalities, contestants and fans, and interactive call-in games, all hosted by Laura Chambers and Steve Day ( which was also rerun in late night, with some new segments, under the title Late Night Games ).

On the special edition DVD's trivia track for Fargo, it is revealed that the main case for the movie's inspiration was based on the infamous 1986 murder of Helle Crafts from Connecticut at the hands of her husband, Richard, who killed her and disposed of her body through a wood chipper.

His trivia page on IMDb also claims that he was awarded Best Actor in the 1986 Institut Français awards.

One of his earliest TV breaks was presenting La Triviatta, a comedy / chat show about trivia for the short lived British Satellite Broadcasting station.

But instead of hard-hitting investigative journalism, what he discovered was the phenomenon that he termed Junk Food News — journalistic trivia served up to the public in a number of predictable categories:

An undercurrent of debate about College Bowl's emphasis on trivia, current events, and popular culture versus the relative unimportance of those topics to ACF packets was also brewing at this time, as were concerns about question length and difficulty in ACF ( belied then, as usual, by the high scoring which normally took place at ACF tournaments ).

( At various points during play, the player had to provide information from the Encyclopedia, although the information was widely-known trivia from the Zork canon.

The following immunity challenge included yet another twist, in that it consisted of a trivia contest with the current jury playing ; this was a fifth challenger and it effectively denied any of the remaining players immunity.

A piece of trivia used as a sign of Nufărul's rise as an important centre for foreign investment is that the quarter was the location of the second McDonalds ( McDrive ) restaurant in the Municipality of Oradea.

Despite his physical limitations and alcohol-related troubles, Hank was intelligent and had an exceptional knowledge of rock music trivia, especially late 60s — early 70s rock music ( Hank had been regularly listening to rock radio stations since he was four or five years old ).

In what many fans consider to be one of his most memorable appearances, on April 25, 2001 Hank competed against Stern producer Gary Dell ' Abate in a rock music trivia contest ( Dell ' Abate was scheduled to be a contestant on VH1's Rock & Roll Jeopardy !).

During a later show Hank competed against Mark McGrath in another rock trivia contest, which Hank also won ( McGrath was a 3-time champion on Rock & Roll Jeopardy!

Writer Kevin Williamson claimed his inspiration for this scene came when he asked this question in a bar while a group was playing a movie trivia quiz game.

On the show, people had to answer a trivia question correctly ( usually an off-the-wall question that no one would be able to answer correctly ) before " Beulah the Buzzer " was sounded.

This is a fairly obscure bit of trivia, however, which suggests that whoever was making the posts either was familiar with the machine specifically or else had at least a general interest in retrocomputing.

In the victories which the Prussian Army was to gain against Austrian Empire and France, von Moltke needed only to issue brief directives to the main formations, leaving the staffs at the subordinate headquarters to implement the details according to the doctrines and methods he had laid down, while the Supreme Commands of his opponents became bogged down in a mountain of paperwork and trivia as they tried to control the entire army from a single overworked headquarters.

He seemed to have a wealth of facts and trivia at his disposal, and he told Carson that the secret was simply " to retain everything you were supposed to have learned in elementary school.

WWSP hosts the world's largest trivia contest, which was founded in 1969 and has since become a long-standing tradition for both the university and the entire community.

* The 2009 Blu-ray edition of the film includes a tongue-in-cheek trivia commentary called " Galactopedia.

* Slideshows-stills, trivia, and trivia games from the film, shown between movie showtimes.

The trivia track on the 2010 edition contains some errors, such as a statement that some of the dancers featured in the film were recruited from the XFL football league cheerleaders, an impossibility as the XFL wasn't formed until 2000.

Interesting piece of trivia: Cyndi Lauper mouthed Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer's lines from the 1936 film The Garden of Allah in her 1984 video for " Time After Time.

Though none of the vocabulary terms are defined in the film, the enhanced trivia track on the " Clerks X DVD " defines them as they appear.

* Ragan, David Movie stars of the ' 30s: A complete reference guide for the film historian or trivia buffStars of the ' 30s, 1985, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-604901-X

Movies are divided into the following categories: Action, Drama, Comedy, " Midnight Movies " ( softcore pornographic films ), and " Movie Stuff " ( film trivia and behind-the-scenes features ).

Much of the film is set in an army dugout where the officers await orders, planning assaults and talking apparent trivia while Ivan impatiently and nervously awaits his next reconnaissance mission.

The dual-layered side contains both widescreen and standard formats of the film along with digitally enhanced 5. 1 surround sound or original mono in both French and English, audio commentary by Reiner, and a trivia track.

* In a bit of " Superman " trivia, director Jeannot Szwarc was hired to helm the film Supergirl and Christopher Reeve was in talks to reprise his most famous role, but a few weeks before start shooting, he declined to be part of the film.

He then proceeds to have what he declares " the best day of life ": he sleeps in late, dances in his underwear ( à la Tom Cruise in the film Risky Business ), makes his own brand of waffles, wins a radio trivia contest, watches an action-packed football game, and finds a penny.

For additional trivia, a scene from La Belva Col Mitra shows up on TV in the Quentin Tarantino film Jackie Brown ( 1997 ).

Also included ( and exclusive to the Blu-ray edition ) is the " Blu-Book Exam ", an interactive game that focuses on Van Wilder trivia questions, plus a series of " Blu-line " options including a pop-up film-progression menu that allows you to set bookmarks and skip around the feature film.

Roos ' work as the writer of the film Single White Female has earned him a permanent space in Hollywood movie trivia, since that title has entered the lexicon in reference to the film's psychopathic lead character who begins to take on her roommate's identity.

Berkeley Systems ' best-selling product, the trivia game You Don't Know Jack, was developed by Jellyvision, based on their award-winning children's educational film " The Mind's Treasure Chest ".

Rivers ' first television appearance was on a 1970 syndicated classic film trivia game show.

Characterising him as a " tough guy at his best in the The Magnificent Seven ," Dexter's obituary in The Guardian singles out his portrayal of Harry Luck and claims he was " overshadowed " by his contemporaries: A question that comes up regularly in film trivia quizzes is to name the magnificent seven, of the 1960 John Sturges western.

Homer grows impatient at the number of short films, previews ( including one for a family movie called Soccer Mummy starring Ed O ' Neill ), on-screen trivia games, and public service announcements preceding the film.