Trivia - 07/02/2012

Saturday

What embarrassing incident involving British royalty led Paris’s world-famous Hotel Ritz to install king-size tubs in all its bathrooms?

• Edward VII, while still the Prince of Wales, got stuck in a narrow hotel tub with a lover and had to be extricated by his valets.

Sunday

Where in the U.S. were the first commercially produced sunglasses sold?

• On the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in a Woolworth’s store. They were made and sold in 1929 by Sam Foster, the man behind Foster Grant sunglasses.

Monday

What was the name of Adolf Hitler’s private 12-car armored train?

• Amerika. The name was changed to Brandenburg after the U.S. entered World War II.