TRIVIA TODAY - Friday, June 19, 2015

Greetings Infomaniacs,

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

I am word with six letters.
My motto is together as one.
If you remove my first and second letters, you can wear me.
If you remove my third letter I can be painful.
If you remove my second, third and sixth letters, Adam &
Eve did it.
If you remove my second and third letters, you do this
using your mouth.
What am I?

ANSWER: String. A string ties objects together. You wear a ring, a sting hurts, according to the Bible, Adam & Eve committed a sin and you sing with your mouth.

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

HINT: (1881-1964), was an American writer, had a long career as a writer of fiction and short stories, stretching from 1913 to 1960.

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WHO SAID IT?

QUOTE: "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

ANSWER: Clarence Budington Kelland.

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