TRIVIA TODAY - Friday, February 12, 2016

Greetings Infomaniacs,

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

They say I came from Africa.
I suppose that may be true.
But the type I am was mostly played
In a place where grass is blue.
Of wood and pearl, skin and steel,
You could say I am high strung.
My neck looks like a ladder,
With brass on every rung.

ANSWER: A 5-string banjo.

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!"

HINT: (1799-1845), was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt."

RANDOM TIDBITS
More than 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate are sold for Valentine's Day each year.

About eight billion candy hearts will be produced this year; that's enough candy to stretch from Rome, Italy to Valentine, Arizona 20 times and back again.

About one billion Valentine's Day cards are exchanged in the US each year. That's the largest seasonal card-sending occasion of the year, next to Christmas.

In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.

The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day.

The oldest surviving love poem till date is written in a clay tablet from the times of the Sumerians around 3500 BC.

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!"

ANSWER: Thomas Hood.

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