Alexander Graham Bell.

I checked .

But my general trivia question is ...
Does carrot cake count as a serving of vegetables?...
Inquiring minds ..

And many recipes also add in nuts (usually walnuts or pecans) and raisins. Add in the cream cheese frosting (that's dairy, yes?) and voila! A healthy dessert! 😄😋😂🥕🍰🥕

A stand alone well balanced meal...

all the food groups

The General Electric Showcase House was at 1669 San Onofre Drive in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles in California. It was built as a residence for the American actor Ronald Reagan and his family. Reagan served as a spokesperson for the American conglomerate General Electric, who furnished the house with the latest consumer products. The house was featured in advertisements for General Electric. Reagan and his family lived at the house until his election as President of the United States in 1980. wikipedia

Could 'well-known' also be subjective?

Or Jimmy Schwartz, the artist and beatnik friend of British singer, songwriter, poet & guitarist Roy Harper, who has released 22 studio albums and 10 live albums.
(That Jimmy Schwartz died in 2012)

Seems like a Gilded Age thing.

just a WAG

the sign would read
JP Morgan is a douche. Thank you for reading.

but JP Morgan makes sense. Thanks! Good trivia.

"I only play the piano, but tonight god is in the house"?

I think most jazz piano players know that quote. I think I heard it the first time when I was 11 or 12 when first exposed to Tatum's recording by my jazz coach. He's probably the one who said it.
Fats wax a great stride piano player,but....Art could do what Fats did, but the reverse wasn't true. Hardly anybody could do what Art was capable of. The only one that immediately comes to mind is Oscar Peterson.

He's near the top of almost every great piano players GOAT list.
They all know!

NC....

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Never hit by a bullet, even though in the famous "gunfight" bullets went through his duster, he was never hit.

Secretariat?

I was in my 3rd year of HS at the time and we had a priest (Geometry teacher) that had spent several 8years teaching at the Carmelite school in Louisville.
He knew all the racing folks and got us interested.
I remember watching the Belmont and there was a long period in the stretch run where Secretariat was the only horse in the camera frame, he was so far ahead.
It would be like a human winning the 1,500 meter at the Olympics by 150 yards.
Stunning!

(other than Trigger and Mr. Ed))

That’s a feat that ever been duplicated. I used to go to Belmont with my boyfriend and we would read the racing form and bet on the horses. It was really fun, if you didn’t bet too much money. I don’t think there’s ever been a horse like Secretariat

That appear in 9 of the 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal System?

I don't have any clue as to the answer, but it's a great trivia question.

Edit: Well I know now, because I looked it up. Makes sense.

I know he wrote about a lot of different things. No idea what the 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal system are.

Asimov - one of my scientific and literary heroes.

Who played cornet for Jacques St. Claire on the jazz track "Vital Stats"?

One of three that occurred to me.

Good guess, Hark.
[What are the other two?]

and "Les Misérables."

Phantom of the Opera

100 cents?

It originally cost a buck to enter the Magic Kingdom.

Tikki

Tikki

And I got to listen to Tiger Rag while perusing the comments.

...also is known for an invention that is still used to this day. What is this invention?

Of course, finding a body of water that big is a bit challenging.

That just always knocked me out - a planet with a 72k mile diameter that could float.

460 North Shore Dr. Clear Lake Iowa?

Here's a tougher one: 28995 Lansing Rd. Dyersville, also in Iowa?

A lot corn there

Was it where Ray built his baseball field?

on Gimme Shelter, but she was the 2nd choice. Who was first?

I pulled this out of my ass.

She was the 1st white Ikette. In 1969, Her somewhat demanding husband forbade her from performing with the Stones. They divorced in 72.

performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa to their next venue in Moorhead, Minnesota.
Who were the two other musicians who were supposed to be on that plane with Buddy Holly, and what instruments did they play?

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Not Armstrong as originally posted.

She traveled with her husband and another couple.
The journey was by sleigh, canal barge, wagon, sternwheeler, horseback and foot.

I don't recall her first name.

Mrs. Narcissa Whitman.

husband. Are there no records of women traveling alone with no male to acknowledge them as accomplishing this feat? And if no husband, then no male to say it happened.

what is the name of the shopping mall in the famous Turkey Drop episode?

of the Mississippi River?

In fact, being a poor swimmer, I'd go with any river.

The river I'm referring to has over 10x the volume.

The Ohio and the Mississippi come together at Cairo IL. The Ohio has more volume than the Missouri/Mississippi combined at that point. In the hydrological sense the Ohio is the largest river.

in a part of Forrest Gump. What other 3 films was he was a child?

But that's obvious.

In the end of Philadelphia, home movies are shown.

["The hypothesis of the primeval atom"]

Maybe French?.

I then recognized the name and his work.

And why did that spark a lifelong vocation?

(It wasn't his first story, and he wrote over a hundred other short stories)

James Thurber and Dr. Seuss.

Hint: He was a freelance writer who sold many short stories to "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" (F&SF)

The title is goofy enough for him. Or E.E. Smith? I don't know much about sci-fi mags but I did manage to sell a story to Perihelion a while back.

Take a stab at my question. It should be obvious.

But he was a close friend of both Harlan Ellison and Michael Shea, and he did know several other well-known Sci-Fi writers, including Marc Laidlaw, K.W. Jeter and Pat Murphy (The Falling Woman), all of whom visited him from time to time at his San Francosco residence.

(I have no idea who wrote Three Dragons)

















I'm curious about your sale of a story to Perihelion...how much did they pay you?
Is the story available to read on their website?

I think I made $6 off it but it was the first year I started writing sci-fi so it was a big deal to me. It was flash fiction and below their current limit of 800 words. They only keep it around for six months. The title was "Blabbo Sillypants" and it was about an android clown. Thinking back, it was very prescient about AI.

I have no idea about "Three Bananas" but I am resisting the urge to Google it.