Excuse me, flight attendant, but that gorilla in 16A is getting a bit TRIVIA QUIZ!

Today is National Grouch Day, a day to be grumpy, ungrateful, and cantankerous, sponsored by students and teachers at Carter Middle School in Clio, Michigan. Wow, that school sounds like a fun place!

Today is National Mushroom Day. Man, I knew I should have waited until today to make that chicken marsala...

Tonight is Dine with TV Dinners on the Floor Night. Hm, I wonder if any of those contain mushrooms.

On this day in 1966, a McKinney, Texas man set a record by committing 10 traffic offenses in 20 minutes. He drove on the wrong side of the street four times, was involved in four hit-and-run accidents, and caused six other accidents.

On this day in 1991, students at Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, built history’s tallest sand castle. Using only hands, buckets, and shovels, they built a castle 19.5 feet tall.


On this day in 1996, a Delta Airlines jet was forced to abandon take-off plans in Salt Lake City when a 490-pound gorilla named Vip got tired of flying and started shaking up the cargo hold. Vip had already flown from Boston with a stop in Cincinnati. He completed his trip to Seattle in a truck.

On this day in 1998, ElmaJean Donnelly of New Castle, Pennsylvania, won $2,000 and a new slip-cover after voters declared she owned the ugliest couch in America. ElmaJean’s 21-year-old couch won over 1,200 other ugly couches in the Surefit Slip Cover company’s Ugliest Couch Contest.

Trivia time: On this day in 1951, "I Love Lucy," starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, premiered on CBS-TV. For how many years were new episodes produced?

Good luck :)