Punchy, the animated advertising mascot for Hawaiian Punch juice drinks, has been saying "How about a nice Hawaiian Punch?” since he was created in 1962. In some ad campaigns Punchy had a friend named Opie.
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Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) won only one Academy Award during his career. It was the Best Actor award for "The African Queen” (1951). His co-star Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) was nominated for Best Actress but did not win.
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Fifty years ago, the New Era Cap Company developed a fitted cap as the uniform headwear for Major League Baseball. It was the introduction of the baseball cap.
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In the Peanuts comic strip, Charlie Brown’s little sister Sally is in love with blanket toting Linus van Pelt.
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The following sentence has seven different spellings of the long e ("ee”) sound: He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas.
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When Bisquick came on the market in 1930, its ad slogan was "Makes Anybody a Perfect Biscuit Maker.”
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Since 1999 as much as half of the world population of Tasmanian devils have died due to a form of tumor causing facial cancer. Tasmanian devils are the largest carnivorous marsupials in the world, found primarily on the island of Tasmania.
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Can you name the show with the theme song that begins "Who can turn the world on with her smile?” See answer at end.
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When speaking to the pope he should be addressed as "Your Holiness.”
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The most popular children’s books by author and illustrator Richard Scarry (1919-1994) are the books that take place in Busytown. The residents of Busytown are animals portrayed doing human activities.
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Brides in France break an egg on the threshold of their new home before stepping in. The egg symbolizes luck and healthy babies in the home.
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The television sitcom "Green Acres” (1965-1971) took place in the fictional town of Hooterville. "Petticoat Junction” (1963-1970) also took place in Hooterville.
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When gold was discovered in 1896 at the Klondike River in Canada, 25,000 miners flocked to the area. The gold supply was exhausted by 1910.
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The Sultan of Brunei lives in the largest residential palace in the world. The palace has 1,788 rooms, 257 bathrooms and a 110-car garage. Brunei is part of Borneo on the South China Sea.
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For thousands of years beginning in the 12th century, Japanese military leaders called shoguns ruled the country and the emperor was just a figurehead. Power was restored to emperors in 1868 when Emperor Meiji (1852-1912) began his reign.
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Tupperware was invented by Earl Silas Tupper (1908-1983) in 1946. When first introduced, the plastic containers did not sell well in stores, so Tupper focused on direct home sales and parties.
Answer: The show is "Mary Tyler Moore” (1970-1977), a sitcom about the life and career of Mary Richards, a producer at the fictional WJM-TV newsroom in Minneapolis. In 2002, a statue of Mary Tyler Moore (born 1936) was erected in downtown Minneapolis.
Know It All is by Kerry McArdle. It runs in the weekend and Wednesday editions of the Daily Journal. Questions? Comments? E-mail knowitall@smdailyjournal.com or fax 344-5290 x114.
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