Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Nov 21, 2015)

On the 7th Day

On July 7th, I had a most unusual day. I woke up at exactly 7:07, stumbled to my refrigerator and had a 7up. I got dressed, went downstairs, and caught the number 7 bus to go to my office on 77th street. While sitting in my office on the 7th floor, it dawned on me how my day was going so I called my bookie and placed a $777 bet on the number 7 horse in the seventh race, whose name was Seventh Heaven, to win.

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Nov 21, 2015)

What Show Did This Saying Come From?
Can you figure out the show that these quotes came from?

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Obdurate

ob-du-rate

adj :: Resistant to persuasion or softening influences.

“The agressive and obdurate debate team rarely lost a challenge.”

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Bon appetite

Was she free range?

Photo courtesy of Stefan Naninck.
Found at chicken restaurant in Phuket, Thailand.

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Historical Events for 20th November 2015

1637 – Peter Minuit and 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden
1829 – Jews expelled from Nikolayev and Sevastopol Russia
1833 – Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay
1947 – UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
1964 – Dmitri Sjostakovitch’s 9th/10th String Quartet premieres in Moscow
1977 – Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
1980 – Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A’s)
1994 – Kosmos 2294/2295/2296 launches
1995 – “Racing Demon” opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 48 perfs
2012 – Toshiba unveils a robot designed to help in nuclear disasters

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