TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, March 5, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

This year I gave up pop for Lent, which is a sacrifice for me. Although I don't drink that much of it, I do enjoy a daily caffeine dose everyday at lunch, and it's my beverage of choice whenever I go out to dinner. When I used to work in the Gophercentral office, my friend Steve (of the Daily Groaner) and I would both give it up, and it was easier not to cheat because we would eat lunch together everyday. Now, the people I work with all drink pop with lunch, and all I hear is the sound of pop cans cracking open. Ahhh! Well, I guess it is a challenge for myself!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "The past is a foreign country; they do things
differently there."

HINT: (1895-1972), British writer, known for novels and short stories.


RANDOM TIDBITS
In Japan, "drive-in" refers to a rest area.

In the German-speaking world, the term "drive-in" is often used instead of "drive-through" when referring to restaurants that offer those services.

At their peak in the baby boomer years after World War II, there were more than 4,000 drive-in movie theaters across the U.S. Today, there are fewer than 500 still in operation.

In 2003 and 2004, people began to organize "guerrilla drive-ins" and "guerrilla walk-ins" in parking lots and empty fields. The movie showings were often organized online, and participants met up at pre-determined locations to watch films projected on bridge pillars or warehouse walls.

Starting in 1933, when the first drive-in theater opened, Variety magazine used the term "Ozoner" to describe an outdoor movie theatre in which patrons viewed a film from their automobile. The term was also used to describe the people that attend drive-in movie theaters.

Richard Hollingshead Jr.'s motive behind the invention of the drive-in was actually to sell more auto products, as this was his business in the 1930s. He wanted to establish a place where people could park their cars, enjoy a meal, and watch a movie outdoors.


VIDEO CLIP
Happy Days: The Fonz Acts Nutsy
Fonzie, played by Henry Winkler, is a leather jacketed Italian-American mechanic, and later, part-owner of Arnold's restaurant, who lives in Wisconsin in the 1950s. Here's one of Henry's favorite scenes from Happy Days.

Watch It Now: Happy Days: The Fonz Acts Nutsy


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What do the following sentences have in common?

Tracy, no panic in a pony cart!
But not now a wonton tub!
Marge let a moody baby doom a telegram.

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

ANSWER: Leslie Poles Hartley.

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