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Family Trivia: Independence Day Quizzes

Try Infoplease's brain-busting quizzes for Independence Day   Related Links Independence Day Trivia Packet for KidsFourth of July by the NumbersFacts on FireworksHistory of Fourth of…

Indianapolis 500

82nd Indianapolis 500:Information Please Picks Its Favorites Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Arie Luyendyk hopes to be reunited with his long-lost love–the Borg-Warner Trophy–after Sunday's…

Top 10 Selling Digital Songs, 2006

Rank Title, ArtistUnits sold 1. Bad Day, Daniel Powter2,015,594 2. Promiscuous, Nelly Furtado1,709,274 3. Sexyback, Justin Timberlake1,657,798 4. Crazy, Gnarls Barkley1,629,467 5. You’re Beautiful…

Women in Sports: Auto Racing

The first all-women auto race took place in 1909. It was a roundtrip race from New York City to Philadelphia. There were 12 competitors. The Woman'…

Designer

What is this job like? Designers have a desire to create. They mix knowledge with artistic ability. Designers focus in a specific area of design such as cars or Web sites. The first step is to…

Results of 2005–2006 Bowl Games

Rose Bowl—Texas 41, So. Calif. 38Orange Bowl—Penn State 26, Florida State 23Sugar Bowl— West Virginia 38, Georgia 35Cotton Bowl—Alabama 13, Texas Tech 10Gator Bowl—Virginia Tech 35, Louisville…

Deep Impact Attacks Comet Tempel 1

For the past 138 years, since its discovery in 1867, Comet Tempel 1 has had distant but harmonious relations with the inhabitants of planet Earth. But on July 4, somewhere between Mars and Jupiter…

Abram Nicholas Pritzker

entrepreneurBorn: 1/6/1896Birthplace: Chicago, Ill. Died: 2/8/1986 The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Pritzker lived the American Dream. He graduated from Harvard Law School and worked for a…