Break out the syrup, because it's time to eat some TRIVIA QUIZzes!

Depending on where you are, today is Bursting Day, Mardi Gras, Pancake Day, Shrove Tuesday, Carnival, or Fasching, The idea is the same everywhere: Get the partying all done tonight because Lent starts tomorrow..

Today is National Weatherperson's Day (formerly Weatherman's Day until society wised up and realized a woman could miss the forecast just as well as man).


Today is Family Leave Day. In 1993, President Clinton signed the Family Leave Bill, which allowed workers to take time off to deal with the birth or adoption of a child.

On this day in 1881, in Arizona the city of Phoenix was incorporated.

On this day in 1972, Bob Douglas became the first black man elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. Douglas owned and coached the New York Renaissance, an all-black team that won 88 consecutive games in 1933.

On this day in 1974, in a regional basketball tournament in Stockholm, one boys team defeated another 272-0. Thirteen-year-old Mats Wermelin scored all 272 points, the most ever scored by one player in a basketball game (Guinness). Hm, what's the Swedish word for "ball hog"?

On this day in 1997, the Nicaraguan government banned the eating of green iguanas, fearing the animal was becoming an endangered species. Traditionally during Holy Week, Nicaraguans ate green iguana soup and chicken-fried green iguanas. Under the new law, green iguana eaters could be fined 50 cordabas ($5.50) per iguana.

On this day in 2001, Chuck Barr of Jamestown, California, got a notice from the Tuolumne County Library that he hadn't paid his bill for damages on a book he had borrowed.
The tab was for just under $40 trillion. Barr said he was glad the whole thing was a computer glitch because he would have been a little short.

Here's a random trivia question: how many letters are in the Hawaiian alphabet?

Good luck :)