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TRIVIA TODAY - Friday, December 18, 2009
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Congratulations to "Lisa Ladd" who won this week's "Mind
Scrambler". Here was the scrambler:
He starts and ends 2 common English words. One painful in
love, one painful in everyday matter. Do you know what 2
words I must be?
ANSWER: Heartache and headache.
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
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our
stories ? and telling other people a somewhat different
version of our stories."
HINT: (1931-), Canadian short-story writer, generally
regarded to be one of the world's foremost writers of
fiction.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
Humpty Dumpty was first printed in 1810. At the time, a
humpty dumpty was a clumsy person, so the nursery rhyme was
meant as a riddle. There is speculation that the nursery
rhyme had an underlying meaning ? in which Humpty Dumpty
represents King Richard III of England and the wall his
horse. Others have suggested that it refers to the downfall
of Cardinal Wolsey at the hand of King Henry VIII.
***
Sing a song of sixpence dates back to at least the eighteenth
century. The four and twenty blackbirds are most likely a
reference to a common practice in the sixteenth-century in
which large pies were baked then filled with live birds
which would escape when the pie was cut.
***
Originally titled ?Hushabye Baby?, Rock-a-bye Baby was said
to be the first poem written on American soil. It may have
been written by an English immigrant who observed the way
native-American women rocked their babies in birch-bark
cradles. Another interpretation suggests that the baby is
the son of King James II of England, who was widely believed
to be someone else?s child smuggled into the birthing room
in order to provide a Catholic heir for James.
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The earliest record of Little Bo Peep is in a manuscript of
around 1805, which contains only the first verse. There are
references to a children?s game called ?Bo-Peep?, from the
sixteenth century, including one in Shakespeare?s King Lear
(Act I Scene iv), but little evidence that the rhyme existed.
***
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep is an eighteenth century nursery rhyme
sung to the same tune as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. It
is possible that this rhyme is a description of the medieval
?Great? or ?Old Custom? wool tax of 1275, which survived
until the fifteenth century.
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Mary Had a Little Lamb was first published as an original
poem by Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24, 1830, and was
inspired by an actual incident. As a girl, Mary Sawyer
(later Mrs. Mary Tyler) kept a pet lamb, which she took to
school one day at the suggestion of her brother. A
commotion naturally ensued.
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*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
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your prize.
Be sure to put "Winner" in the subject line.
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QUOTE: "Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our
stories ? and telling other people a somewhat different
version of our stories."
ANSWER: Alice Munro.
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Questions? Comments? email us at: mailto:melissa@gophercentral.com
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