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September 12

Milli Vanilli's grammy

What happened to it? Yes, I know it was rescinded, but does anyone know what wound up happening to the actual statue? Did they melt it? On display somewhere?--Thedoorhinge (talk) 00:51, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Don't the winners walk off the stage with those trophies? If so, they might still have them, unless they were talked or threatened into giving them back. Another rumor is that they are stored in the same place as the Minnesota Vikings Super Bowl trophies. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:23, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In google, all I could find was that the trophies were returned. Are they the same style every year? If so, it's possible the Grammy committee re-used them. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:33, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I don't think they get their actual trophies in the ceremony. They get a mock-up for the presentation, and the actual engraved trophy is given later. I'm not sure which awards ceremonies this applies to, but I have seen "behind the scenes" stories where at least one awards ceremony works this way. --Jayron32 04:56, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

So, fittingly, onstage they got a cheap substitute? :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:59, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I think the deal is, they want to keep the results a "secret" until the envelope is actually opened; hence the whole bit where they drag out some accountant to ensure that the voting was accurately tallied. If they engraved the awards ahead of time, then it would exponentially increase the number of people who have access to who "won", which would be a security risk for keeping the winners secret. --Jayron32 05:03, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not totally sure, but I think the Oscar might be pre-engraved with the category and year, and they get the real thing onstage, to be engraved with their name sometime later. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:16, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You may be right on that. I'm remembering from a long-ago seen bit on TV. It could have been decades since I heard or saw this, so I could be partially mistaken. --Jayron32 05:51, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

QI

Why is QI called QI?199.126.224.245 (talk) 03:47, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

QI means "Quite Interesting". Points are scored if the answer is quite interesting, not necessarily correct. -- kainaw ™ 03:53, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The acronym is explained on the very first line of the article. Dismas|^(talk) 03:55, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's also the reverse of IQ. Quadrupedaldiprotodont (talk) 13:45, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel Boone singer

Daniel Boone also had a hit with "Skydiver" in South Africa but I am not sure in which year and if it was a hit in the USA and the UK? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.246.210.211 (talk) 04:29, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to Daniel Boone (singer), his only significant hit in the U.S. was "Beautiful Sunday". --Jayron32 04:52, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It was not a hit in the UK either. According to this it came out in 1973. Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:16, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]