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TRIVIA TODAY - Friday, January 28, 2011
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Congratulations to "David Poirier" who won this week's "Mind
Scrambler". Here was the scrambler:
I go up but at the same time go down.
Up towards the blue sky, and down towards the ground.
I'm present tense and past tense too, so why don't you come
for a ride, just me and you!
What am I?
ANSWER: A seesaw.
Enjoy!
Melissa
Email Melissa: mailto:melissa@gophercentral.com
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: ?Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the
family parrot to the town gossip.?
HINT: (1879-1935), American entertainer, famous for pithy
and homespun humor.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
Parrots are the only birds that can bring food to its mouth
with its foot. Their tongues are made up of small bones
that make them flexible enough to manipulate the food. In
the wild, parrots eat flowers, fruit, nuts, plants, and
insects.
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Pet parrots often die of the same causes as humans do: too
much fat, too much stress, too little exercise. In fact,
parrots have a tendency to become obese. Parrots live for
40 or even 100 years!
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It takes about two months to teach a parrot to talk, or
rather, to teach a parrot to imitate human speech ? parrots
don?t understand what they?re saying.
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VIDEO CLIP
Parrot Talk
Watch this clip collection featuring our feathered friends
doing what good trained parrots do best: make noises. The
beautiful birds talk, mimic, scream, and sing.
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=5313
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The largest species of parrot is the hyacinth macaw
(Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus): it grows up to 39 inches long
and can weigh almost 5 pounds. They are native to South
America, but to get them as pets anywhere else you have to
dole out some $20,000 or more for a pair!
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The smallest parrot is the buff-faced pygmy parrot
(Micropsitta pusio). It is only 3.5 inches tall and weighs
as little as 0.4oz. The rarest parrot is the Spix?s macaw,
the only member of the parrot genus Cyanopsitta.
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There are 372 species of parrots in 86 genera in the
Psittaciformes order, subdivided in three families:
Psittacidae (true parrots), Cacatuidae (cockatoos) and
Nestoridae. There are almost as many parrots as cats or
dogs in the USA, some 40 million.
(Facts from didyouknow.org)
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*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
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Answer will be posted in Friday's Trivia Today. Good Luck!
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michele@gophercentral.com your complete name and
address to be shipped your prize.
Be sure to put "Winner" in the subject line.
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QUOTE: ?Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the
family parrot to the town gossip.?
ANSWER: Will Rogers.
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