TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, August 20, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Right now I am on a two-week break from school, and I am loving every second of it. I really like being in school, but I hate always having homework hanging over my head. This week, I can actually read a book for enjoyment, and not for school reading. Hmmm, what book should I read?

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."

HINT: (1483-1546), German monk, priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation.


RANDOM TIDBITS
The late Bobby Pickett perfected his Boris Karloff impersonation as a youngster, and it served him well when he employed it to great effect on "Monster Mash." The song topped the music charts Halloween week in 1962 and became a perennial late-October favorite.

Best known for the novelty hits "Wooly Bully" and "Lil' Red Riding Hood," the leader of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs wasn't named Samuel, but Domingo. The nickname was an abbreviation of his last name, Samudio.

Johnny Horton recorded two versions of his hit "The Battle of New Orleans," one for American audiences and one for release in the United Kingdom. The lyrics were changed in the overseas version to examine the historic event from the British perspective.

"Weird Al" Yankovic's second single, "Another One Rides the Bus," was recorded live on the Dr. Demento radio program in 1980. It was a step up from his first single, "My Bologna," which Al had recorded in the bathroom across the hall from the student radio station at Cal Poly.

Tom Lehrer, whose novelty hits included "The Vatican Rug" and "The Masochicsm Tango," was a major-league brainiac. He earned a Master's degree in math from Harvard before he turned 20 and went on to teach the subject at MIT and UC-Santa Cruz.

Dickie Goodman made a music career with a microphone and a razor blade. He inter-spliced short snippets of up-and-coming pop hits with his own voice (as a reporter or interviewer), spawning a long series of novelty singles, beginning with "The Flying Saucer" in 1956.


VIDEO CLIP
Weird Al on Spike Jones
You're in for a treat. Sit back and watch a musical comedy legend Spike Jones. Pluse Weird Al Yankovic discusses how Spike influenced his and others career, comedy and music.

Watch It Now: Weird Al on Spike Jones


*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
I drift forever with the current
Down these long canals they've made
Tame, yet wild, I run elusive
Multitasking to your aid.
Before I came, the world was darker
Colder, sometimes, rougher, true
But though I might make living easy,
I'm good at killing people too.

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."

ANSWER: Martin Luther.

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