Trivia Today - Monday, July 7, 2014

Greetings Infomaniacs,

It's amazing how easy it is to take electricity for granted - that is, until you lose it for days! Last Monday a massive storm hit the Chicagoland area that produced torrential downpours and damaging winds.

It was so bad in my neighborhood that power lines were knocked down, the main street that I live off of was closed off in both directions for a mile, a roof was blown off the funeral home down the street, and the condo building I live in lost power for close to four days!

Thankfully, my mom lives close by so I was able to camp out at her place, but it was definitely an inconvenience. However, I am looking on the positive side that the damage wasn't worse and nobody was hurt!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."

HINT: Was an American teacher and writer. He is remembered for founding a short-lived and unconventional school as well as a utopian community known as "Fruitlands."


RANDOM TIDBITS
There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

The most expensive Monopoly set ever created is worth $2 million. The board is made of gold and the pieces are jewel-encrusted. Monopoly is the best-selling board game in the world. It is produced in 26 different languages.

Scrabble inventor Alfred Mosher Butts originally named his game "Criss Cross", and sold a few hundred sets under that name. Only later did the name get changed to Scrabble.

Many re-publishes in the history of Milton Bradley's Life board game have taken place since its creation in 1860. The years for these updates include 1866, 1959, 1961, 1978, 1985, 1992, and 2005. As times have changed, so has the game!

Dominoes were first played in the courts of Venice and Naples in Italy. The tiles were originally constructed by gluing and pinning two sheets of ebony on either side of the bone tile. This prevented cheating by being able to see the pip value from the back of the tile in certain lights.

A board game that appeared very similar to checkers (called "Draughts" in Great Britain} was discovered in the ruins of the ancient city of Ur in modern day Iraq. This board game dates to about 3000 B.C.


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I say everything I hear to others around.
I'm not an animal, nor part of the human race.
I will, immediately, repeat after you;
But only if my tail is in place.
What am I?

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."

ANSWER: Amos Bronson Alcott

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