Sure, the encyclopedia can tell you that playwright George Bernard Shaw won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. Movie reference books will tell you that Shaw won an Academy Award in 1938 for helping adapt his own play Pygmalion to the screen. But only a trivia buff will pore through pages of lists of Oscar winners and Nobel laureates and confirm for you that, yes, Shaw is indeed the only one ever to receive both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. A trivia fact is born.
