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Music Trivia: U2 on YouTube

Published October 27, 2009 Fun Trivia , Music Trivia 1 Comment
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Millions attend the virtual Rose Bowl concert on YouTube

On the 25th of October as 96,000 fans rocked to U2 at Rose Bowl stadium there was a silent roar of millions of Bono enthusiasts, across seven continents, happily singing along from the comfort of their own lazy-boy’s. With the help of YouTube, U2 selflessly streamed their concert live (and free) for all to see.

So while you are desperately refreshing the U2 channel on YouTube to see if they have reposted the concert, catch up on your U2 trivia!

U2 at the Rose Bowl

U2 frontman Bono at the Rose Bowl

You too can be a U2 expert!

  • There are 4 members of the band: Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullin Jr.
  • Bonos’ real name is Paul David Hewson and The Edges’ real name is David Howell Evans
  • The band, including Bono’s future wife Ali Hewson, all met at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Ireland. They were originally called Feedback and then The Hype before they settled on U2 in 1978.
  • In May 1980 U2 released their first international single 11 O’clock Tick Tock and their debut album Boy followed in October.
  • During the recording of their second album, October, Bono and The Edge temporarily left the group over spiritual disputes.

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Halloween Trivia: Questions & Answers

Published October 24, 2009 Holiday Trivia 1 Comment
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Halloween: Fun Facts

Halloween: Fun Facts

Halloween is the scariest night of the year, the evening when the creatures of the underworld come out to play. But how much do you know about the night of the dead? If all you can think of is pranks, pumpkins and free candy here are a few fun Halloween facts to fill your treat bag!

HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN

  • The word Halloween is shortened from ‘All Hallows Evening’
  • The 1st of November is officially All Saint’s Day and is a celebration of all saints who do not have a special day of their own.
  • Halloween originated as an old Gaelic tradition to mark the end of light season (summer) and the start of the dark season (winter). It was thought that on this night the wall to the underworld was thinner allowing spirits to pass through.
  • People started wearing Halloween costumes so that the ghosts and ghouls who roamed the countryside would not recognize that they were human
  • The traditional Halloween colours are orange for the autumn harvest and black for evil and darkness.
  • There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with the word orange.
  • In 2009 the world record for the largest pumpkin was established in Ohio, United States. The oversized squash weighs 1,725 pounds (782kg).
  • Jack-o-Lanterns were originally carved from turnips and potatoes (photo).
  • Stephen Clarke holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest pumpkin carver with a time of 24.03seconds.
  • Samhainophobia is the fear of Halloween.
  • The next time there will be a full moon for Halloween is the 31st of October 2020.

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Movie Trivia: New Moon & Twilight

Published October 24, 2009 Fun Trivia , Movie Trivia Leave a Comment
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The film adaptation of the best-selling novel New Moon by Stephanie Meyer is set to hit screens on the 20th of November 2009. The enchanting story of passion, suspense and vampires has created a kind of cult following of ‘Twilighters’ who live, breathe and line-up-for-hours-at-book-signings, all in the name of Bella and Edward.

Here are a few fun facts to feed Twilighters’ bloody thirst for anything Twilight and to help mere mortals understand what the fuss is all about!

New Moon, movie poster

New Moon, movie poster

ALL ABOUT THE TWILIGHT MOVIE SERIES…

Author Stephanie Meyer is a stay at home mother of three who says that the story of “Twilight” came to her in a dream on June 2nd 2003.  She remembers the date because it was the first day of swim practice.

  • The first novel ‘Twilight’ was originally named ‘Forks.’
  • Meyers also penned ‘The Hosts,’ a science fiction/romance novel about an alien race that invades earth.
  • When “Twilight” was released in 2005, only 75,000 copies were printed
  • 3.7 million first-print copies were made of the fourth Twilight book “Breaking Dawn.” Over 1.3million of these were sold the first day.
  • So far the series has sold over 70 million copies.

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Music Trivia: This Is It

Published October 12, 2009 Music Trivia Leave a Comment
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Michael Jackson… This is it.

A new Michael Jackson song, the first track to emerge since his death, has been given its public premiere. The song has been released on Jackson’s website and to radio stations. It will be the only original song on a double CD due to be released this month.

The song is titled This Is It, and refers to the ill-fated concert tour which was to be Jackson’s first major series of concerts since the HIStory World Tour in 1997. Over one million people were expected to attend the series in total. And Jackson intended to retire after the shows, saying it would be his “final curtain call”.

Jackson’s comments were prophetic. Less than three weeks before the first show was to begin in London (and with all concerts being sold out) he died.

SOME FUN MICHAEL JACKSON TRIVIA:

Jackson made his debut in 1964 with his brothers as a member of the The Jackson 5 and began a successful solo career in 1971. The 1982 album “Thriller” is still the best-selling album of all time. Worldwide, Jackson sold 750 million records in his lifetime.

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Political Trivia: Nobel Peace Prize

Published October 11, 2009 Fun Trivia , News & Politics Trivia Leave a Comment
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Nobel Peace Prize

Barak Obama, Nobel Laureate

Barak Obama, Nobel Laureate

U.S. President Barak Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace. But Obama is not the only U.S. President to win the prize – three others have won the prize in its 109 year history.

In 2002 Jimmy Carter won the prize for “decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights….” His most notable achievement was the Camp David Accords, brokering peace between Israel and Egypt.

In 1919 Woodrow Wilson was awarded the prize for his role in the founding of the League of Nations (the doomed forerunner of the United Nations). An interesting fact: While Wilson was on a national speaking tour drumming up support of the League of Nations, he was partially paralyzed by a stroke, cut short his national campaign for the League, and had to accept compromises that led to the League’s demise.

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Movie Trivia: Where The Wild Things Are

Published October 11, 2009 Fun Trivia , Movie Trivia Leave a Comment
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Fun Trivia About the Children’s Movie Director

While we wait for the upcoming release of “Where the Wild Things Are” I looked up the credits and discovered Director Spike Jonze (not to be confused with Spike Lee… who is not to be confused with Ang Lee).

Jonze is known for some great films, including “Adaptation” and “Being John Malkovich.” But the director of the this beloved children’s story is the same director that churned out JackAss: The Movie, JackAss Number 2, and was the producer of JackAss 2.5.

(BTW: Jonze has claimed that at least one Hollywood producer suggested that “John Malkovich” be rewritten as “Being Tom Cruise” – supposedly to appeal to a wider audience of teenage girls.)

Jonze is one of the most renowned directors of music videos, including videos for Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, FatBoy Slim, Weezer, and REM. He’s notorious for the famous Beastie Boys video: Sabotage.

Beyond movies, Jonze got his start in magazine editing, and was one of 3 creative minds behind “Dirt Magazine.”

Bur perhaps the best qualification he has earned is that in 2005 he was offered the opportunity to direct the movie “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” but wisely declined.

Social Media Marketing a.k.a Free Advertising…is it too good to be true?

Published September 28, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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At Amuso we have a fantastic group of interns who work tirelessly on a variety of tasks. Here, Jenna Marie Madden reflects on her time conducting outreach for us on a variety of social media sites.

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Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube. The four names that form the hub of the online phenomenon that has taken cyber-space by storm: social networking. These interactive sites, and thousands of others, allow millions of people to exchange data, photos and experiences but most importantly they have empowered consumers to voice their opinions and forced marketers to rethink and restructure their advertising campaigns. The majority of companies are testing the waters of social network marketing by allocating a small percentage of their advertising budget to the ‘trial’ of this resource. But for small Startups, like Amuso, social media marketing is their lifeline.

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A message regarding our contests

Published September 1, 2009 What's New Leave a Comment
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Hello there,

You may have noticed some changes to Amuso recently and we’d like to take a few minutes to explain some of them to you.

We have taken the decision to remove all photo and video contests from the site. We were simply not reaching the number of viewers and participants we had hoped, even though many of you were creating some great contests and entries. I’m sure some of you will be sad to see them go, but we see a huge opportunity to develop social games in other areas. During our recent tests with Trivia Games, it became clear that the overwhelming majority of you really enjoyed playing such fast, exciting and social games, and we are thrilled about the possibilities for creating some amazing games in this area. We’re not ruling out bringing photo and video contests back to life in the future, so please go on expressing yourselves, flaunting your talents for the world to see :)

Our focus is now totally on developing Trivia Star – one of the world’s first multiplayer online Trivia games that you can play for cash. In the game you can play against up to Four other players in real time, answering a series of questions to see who will take the cash prize for being the smartest. It’s fast, exciting and social, and we cannot wait to hear your feedback!

You can Play Trivia Star here!

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Amuso’s “Cuisine”: Twitter as the bite-size snack, blogging as the full meal

Published August 3, 2009 What's New Leave a Comment

This is a guest post from one of our interns, Marika Nīmante. She is working with us over the Summer and has written an interesting insight into the role Twitter is playing in Online Marketing.
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Amuso’s “Cuisine”: Twitter as the bite-size snack, blogging as the full meal
It will not be a story about high-tech tomatoes, a mysterious milk or supers-cucumbers. This story will be about working in Amuso’s “cuisine”, sharing ideas of marketing recipes, where I’ve understood, how the business ‘meal’ is made; and what are main ingredients of a long-term marketing strategy.
Some marketing bloggers, including me, are swooning over Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Delicious and other instant, fast–paced social communities lately, because they are still the single best place to build a well – trafficked home for yourself or your business on the web. Blogging is alive and well, despite what the cynics say – look around at all the people creating new content and the millions reading it daily.
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New London Office

Published July 30, 2009 What's New Leave a Comment
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Amuso.com has moved into it’s new London HQ, a lovely office at 41 Great Pulteney Street in Soho (Pics to follow!). The bulk of the team is still based in Central Barcelona (well, when we’re not chilling out on the beach that is…), but our new official base in Soho places us right at the heart of where the action is. Onwards and upwards!

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