TRIVIA TODAY - November 7, 2014

Greetings Infomaniacs,

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

What has 88 keys but can't open a single door?

ANSWER: A piano.

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

HINT: (1915-1968), was an American Catholic writer and mystic.


RANDOM TIDBITS
Roman statues were often made with heads that could be removed and replaced with other heads.

A pieta is any representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Christ, not just the famous one by Michelangelo.

Rembrandt was his first name; his last name was van Rijn.

Henri Rousseau, famous for his exotic jungle scenes, never left Paris. He would go to the park, lie down among the grass and weeds, and sketch the plants hundreds of times their size.

Matisse coined the term cubism in 1908 as an insult to another painter's work.

It took Leonardo da Vinci about five years to paint the Mona Lisa. X-rays of the famous painting show that there are three different versions underneath.


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

ANSWER: Thomas Merton.

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