I think for lunch I'll have a nice egg salad TRIVIA QUIZ!
Today is See If You Can Remember How to Play Parcheesi Day. Couldn't make this up if I tried, folks...and for me the answer is no :)
Today Easter Monday, a holiday in many places, including North Carolina.
Today is National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day. Like I need a RAISIN to celebrate that!
Egg Salad Week begins today, always the week after Easter. So peel all those Easter eggs and get to work!
On this day in 1898, Alexander Winton sold his first automobile, built in Cleveland, to mining engineer Robert Allison for $1,000. It was the first car built and sold in the U.S.
On this day in 1989, the Exxon Valdez hit a reef in the Gulf of Alaska (Prince William Sound), spilling 11-million gallons of crude oil in the largest oil tanker spill in U.S. history.
On this day in 1991, some 100 cars were damaged by fire when dry grass ignited at a cook-off sponsored by the San Antonio Firefighters Association. No one was hurt.
On this day in 2001, a German man who persuaded a friend to tell his fiancee he had been arrested to cover up an affair was fined $700 for wasting police officers' time. The fiancee called police to find out where her man was and found he had not been arrested. Police feared he might have been kidnapped by gangsters disguised as police and called in the friend for questioning. The friend confessed the story was made up.
On this day in 2007, a man in Waterville, Maine, got his teeth back after ripping open a wall in his home, where a mouse had hidden them. Sixty-eight-year old Bill Exner said he caught the little rodent on three separate occasions with a live trap and placed it in a gallon pickle jar but it kept getting away. After the third escape, Exner couldn't find his lower dentures. He also noticed a hole in the wall and a friend helped him pry off a board to look inside. His dentures were inside the wall. At last report, the mouse was still at large.
And now for some trivia: What movie character said "A boy's best friend is his mother."?
Good luck :)
5 Comments:
I'll take a guess and say "Forrest Gump"?
Norman Bates?
Also, how do you not know how to play parcheesi?
It was, indeed, Norman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho!
Laine, that's an excellent guess, not only because it would fit with the movie, but also because I think I've been using a lot of Tom Hanks trivia lately :)
Kim, nice work! Now you can tell all your male patients that they should be best friends with their mothers...or maybe not. As for the Parcheesi, I know I used to joke about the game, but I honestly don't think I've ever played it. My sister and I used to throw the little disks at each other, but I'm pretty sure that's not how one goes about playing the game!
OK, when I come to Seattle, we are playing parcheesi, I will buy you a set :)
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