TRIVIA TODAY - Friday, March 11, 2016

Greetings Infomaniacs,

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

With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?

ANSWER: A stapler.

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."

HINT: (1825-1895), English biologist (comparative anatomist), known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."

ANSWER: Thomas Henry Huxley

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