TRIVIA TODAY – Monday, March 1, 2010

Greetings Infomaniacs,

I hope that everyone had a great weekend. I’m running a
little behind this morning, so let’s get right to the
trivia!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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                    TODAY’S MYSTERY QUOTE

QUOTE: “We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be
happier.”

HINT: (1775-1864), English writer and poet, best known
works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem
Rose Aylmer.

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                        RANDOM TIDBITS

Leonardo da Vinci, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein,
Thomas Edison and General George Patton were all dyslexic.

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The first tour arranged by travel entrepreneur Thomas Cook
in 1841 was a 48-mile round trip by British rail between
Leicester and Loughborough for a temperance meeting. It
cost the equivalent of fourteen cents.

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The Bronx Zoo get blood daily from a local slaughterhouse
to feed its vampire bats, part of its captive breeding
collection of bats–the largest in the world.

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Before the introduction of the hair dryer in 1920, the
vacuum cleaner could be converted into a hair dryer by
attaching a hose to the exhaust.

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Hugh Hefner served as circulation manager of Children’s
Activities magazine while he was raising money to launch
Playboy.

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The first living creature ever ejected from a supersonic
aircraft was a bear in 1962. It was parachuted from 35,000
feet to a safe landing on earth.

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                  *** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***

It’s made in your own
it’s a picture too
and it can project to others
something about you

What is it?

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: “We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be
happier.”

ANSWER: Walter Savage Landor.

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Questions? Comments? email us at: mailto:melissa@gophercentral.com