TRIVIA TODAY - November 14, 2014

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Congratulations to "Bill Plumer" who won this week's "Mind Scrambler". Here was the scrambler:

I have no voice and yet I speak to you, I tell of all things in the world that people do. I have leaves, but I am not a tree, I have pages, but I am not a bride or royalty. I have a spine and hinges, but I am not a man or a door, I have told you all, I cannot tell you more.

What am I?

ANSWER: A book.

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "All the inventions that the world contains,
Were not by reason first found out, nor brains;
But pass for theirs who had the luck to light
Upon them by mistake or oversight."

HINT: (1613-1680), was a poet and satirist, remembered chiefly for a long satirical poem entitled Hudibras.


RANDOM TIDBITS
Stilts were invented by French shepherds who herded sheep in marshes near the Bay of Biscay.

In about 250 B.C., Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes invented the screw.

Leonardo da Vinci figured out that the rings of a tree reveal its age.

The filaments for the first electric lamp were made of bamboo.

The first person to use an elevator: King Louis XV, whose "flying chair" went between floors at Versailles in 1743.

Mark Twain invented a Trivial Pursuit-like game called Mark Twain's Memory-Builder.


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "All the inventions that the world contains,
Were not by reason first found out, nor brains;
But pass for theirs who had the luck to light
Upon them by mistake or oversight."

ANSWER: Samuel Butler.

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