TRIVIA TODAY – Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Greetings Infomaniacs,

My favorite part of Halloween has to be all the candy! It’s
the one day of the year that I don’t feel guilty consuming
way too many snack size candy bars! My boyfriend and I are
taking my godson trick-or-treating around the neighborhood,
and I’m hoping that if we dress up some folks might be
generous and give us a few treats, too!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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                    TODAY’S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: “Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar
into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just
one of the pieces.”

HINT: (1931-), American author, newspaper journalist, and
psychoanalysis researcher.

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                        RANDOM TIDBITS

Great supplies of licorice were found in King Tut’s tomb.
Licorice, famed for its medicinal qualities as well as its
taste, was a favorite of the pharaoh.

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It used to take 27 hours to make Marshmallow Peeps! Before
the process was mechanized in the 1950s, the Peeps were
hand-squeezed out of a pastry tube, then allowed to dry
before being hand-painted.

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Chocolate was introduced to Europe in the sixteenth century
when the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes brought home
the delectable dessert after conquering the Aztecs.
Chocolate was said to be the favorite drink of the Aztec
emperor Montezuma II.

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In the early 1800s spruce sap became the first popular
chewing gum. Modern gum has its origins in chicle, the sap
of the tropical sapodilla tree, first used in gum in the
1860s.

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The Pez dispenser was intended to resemble a cigarette
lighter. Invented in Austria in 1927, Pez was originally a
candy marketed at adults who were trying to stop smoking.
The plastic heads were a later addition.

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Schrafft’s candy in Boston urged families to send jelly
beans to their loved ones in the Union Army during the
Civil War. The colorful candies would provide quick energy
and resist melting.

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                  *** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***

I turn around once. What is out will not get in.
I turn around again. What is in will not get out.

What am I?
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QUOTE: “Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar
into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just
one of the pieces.”

ANSWER: Judith Viorst.

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