TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, December 28, 2015

Greetings Infomaniacs,

It's been a busy last few days, so I'm going to keep it short today. I hope you enjoy the trivia!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."

HINT: (1876-1958), American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents.

RANDOM TIDBITS
The Emmy Awards finally gave daytime shows their own category in 1974. The first show to win for Outstanding Daytime Drama was The Doctors, which beat out rivals Days of Our Lives and General Hospital.

If you think soap operas got their name from the soap companies that advertised heavily during the programs, then you're correct. Advertisers knew that housewives and stay-at-home moms were a perfect, captive audience for their goods.

The Young and the Restless star Jeanne Cooper underwent a facelift in 1984. She pitched producers the idea of including real filmed footage of the surgery in the show, as if her character (Katherine Chancellor) had experienced the same procedure, and they incorporated it into the soap's storyline.

In the first deal of its kind, the soap opera Passions announced in April 2007 that it wasn't being cancelled after all, but that the show would leave NBC and continue airing new episodes as an exclusive to subscribers of the DirecTV satellite service.

The familiar theme song for the long-running daytime soap Days of Our Lives was cowritten by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, who were best known for penning many late-1960s pop hits, including The Monkees' "Last Train to Clarksville."

Bo Derek may have been a 10 in the movies, but her 1998 evening soap opera Wind on Water lasted only two episodes before NBC pulled the plug.

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What falls but doesn't break, and what breaks but doesn't
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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."

ANSWER: Charles F. Kettering.

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