TRIVIA TODAY – Friday, February 26, 2010

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Congratulations to “Richard B Spaulding” who won this week’s
“Mind Scrambler”. Here was the scrambler:

I’m a girls name
sometimes you break me
sometimes you chew
I’m sour
I’m salty
yet also bad for you
but most people love me
they truly do

What am I?

ANSWER: Candy

NOTE: If you have any questions about the Mind Scrambler,
send an email to Michele at michele@thedailytease.com.
If you are the winner remember to put “Winner” in the
subject line. Please do not direct your Mind Scrambler
questions to me.

Enjoy!
Melissa

Email Melissa: mailto:melissa@gophercentral.com

P.S. You can discuss this issue or any other topic in
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                    TODAY’S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: “One of the very nicest things about life is the
way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and
devote our attention to eating.”

HINT: (1935-2007), Italian operatic tenor, who also crossed
over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the
most commercially successful tenors of all time.

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                        RANDOM TIDBITS

The first bagel ever made was in 1683 by a baker from
Vienna Austria. The baker was so thankful to the King of
Poland for saving Austria from Turkish invaders that he
reshaped the local bread so that it resembled the King’s
stirrup.

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When Austria Jews emigrated to America, they brought the
beugel with them. The first beugel bakeries were founded
in New York City in the 1920s. Later the name was
Americanized and called a bagel.

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Prepackaged bagels first became available in grocery stores
in the 1950s. Frozen bagels were introduced in 1960.

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Bagels are formed from an eggless dough (flour, yeast,
water and oil) into a donut shape, then dropped in rapidly
boiling water.

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North Carolina molecular scientist Robert Bohannon has
developed Buzz Donuts and Buzzed Bagels- caffeinated donuts
and bagels. They contain the caffeine equivalent of two
cups of coffee.

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The late Alan Davidson wrote in his Oxford Companion to
Food that the word bagel arose from the Yiddish “beygel,”
itself taken from the German “beugel,” meaning ring or
bracelet.

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                  *** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***

                Look for a new mind scrambler in
                 Monday’s issue of Trivia Today!

Submit your answer by visiting: http://www.thedailytease.com

Answer will be posted in Friday’s Trivia Today. Good Luck!
If your name appears in Friday’s newsletter,
email me your complete name and address and I will ship
your prize.
Be sure to put “Winner” in the subject line.

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QUOTE: “One of the very nicest things about life is the
way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and
devote our attention to eating.”

ANSWER: Luciano Pavarotti.

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