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Mystery Monday

Goooood afternoon! What a chilly day in Mt. Vernon, but we’re keeping you warm with some awesome music and the Mystery Box!

The mystery box was a confusing one today! I was really stumped!
It was a granola bar! Thanks to Jennie for helping me figure it out!

Our Word of the Day today was a spookily appropriate one.

sawbones

  1. Slang. a surgeon or physician.

The etymology of sawbones is appallingly familiar to anyone who has seenphotos from the Civil War or Gone with the Wind. The word is relativelymodern, first appearing in Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers (1837).

 

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly!

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A Musical Mystery Monday!

For our Mystery Monday question today, it was a music related one! It really had nothing to do with any current events or holidays. It just came about while I was doing some freelance research (yes I know I’m a nerd) and I thought it would make a good question!

So today’s question was as follows…
Which guitar tremolo system came first? The Bigsby or the Floyd Rose?
The answer is the Bigsby!
The patent for the Bigsby was filed in 1952, and the Floyd Rose was invented in 1977.

Congratulations to Rebecca from Butler!

The main advantage of the Floyd Rose vibrato system is its double-locking design. This makes the guitar stay in tune through large pitch changes, e.g., forcing the vibrato bar all the way down to the guitar body, or pulling up on the bar to raise the tone by as much as a fifth or a seventh.
The Bigsby vibrato unit is installed on the top of the guitar and works in conjunction with a roller bridge. The arm of the Bigsby is spring-loaded and attached to a pivoting metal bar, around which the strings of the guitar are installed. The main advantage of the Floyd Rose vibrato system is its double-locking design. This makes the guitar stay in tune through large pitch changes, e.g., forcing the vibrato bar all the way down to the guitar body, or pulling up on the bar to raise the tone by as much as a fifth or a seventh.

There’s some guitar nerdery for you. Now, here’s some baseball nerdery since the first game of the World Series starts tomorrow!
The Astros have been in the World Series once before in 2005, where they lost to the Chicago
White Sox. The Sox swept that series 4-0.
The Dodgers have been in 18 world series, wining 6 and losing 12. Their last win and
appearance was in 1988 against the Oakland Athletics, winning their series in 5 games.
A.J Hinch and Dave Roberts are bringing the lefties to the mound on Tuesday.
Clayton Kershaw hitting the hill first for the Dodgers, throwing an average 93 mph fastball.
Throwing a 2.31 ERA in his 2017 season.
Ranked 3rd on his team, seeing 27 games his 2017 season, 175 innings pitched, allowing 136
hits, 23 homeruns made on Kershaw, 30 walks, and 202 strikeouts.
Dallas Keuchel pitching first for the Astros, throwing an average 88mph fastball, and he pitched
a 2.90 ERA in his 2017 season.
Ranked 5th on his team, seeing 23 games in his 2017 season, 145.2 innings pitched, allowing 116
hits, 15 home runs made on Keuchel, 47 walks and 125 strikeouts.

Thanks for listening!
– Lilly

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The Mystery Box returns!

Mystery Monday

I got stumped on the first two tests in the Mystery Box today…

I know that it doesn’t belong in a kitchen, in a bathroom, or an office…so where?

It belongs on a drum!  It’s Lilly’s Tenth Avenue North collectible drumstick!

joe drumstick 2

Today’s Word of Day is razzmatazz, a noun that means a confusing, colorful or even gaudy action or display.

Thanks for listening!

-Joe

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Mystery Box Monday!

One week til Fall break here at MVNU and I couldn’t be more excited!
Today was the return of the Mystery Box!
Right off the bat, Joe let us know that it was something that I could eat, so, naturally, I was very excited.
So from the hearing test, I learned that it wasn’t a very heavy object, and that it slid pretty easily. I also learned that it was an item that you could find at most normal supermarkets, and that it’s an item that you don’t normally eat for breakfast.

We actually had a winner after our hearing test, which was awesome!
Congratulations to Mark from Saint Louisville!
The item in the box today… PIZZA!

Our word of the day today…

thimblerig

A swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups,and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.

The venerable swindle thimblerig is nowadays called the shell game (an Americanism dating from about 1890), in which walnut shells or small cups are used for the classic thimbles. The rig of thimblerig is from the archaic noun rig “swindle, fraud.” The verb sense of rig is alive and well in the U.S. in the meaning “manipulate fraudulently” (for example,  the price of precious metals). Thimblerig entered English in the early 19th century.

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly 

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Cooking Day Mystery Monday!

Welcoming you back from a longgggg weekend, but let me tell you, it was a good one!

Today on the Afternoon Drive, we recapped Sonfest 2017, and we were so thrilled to be a part of such an incredible event! If you’d like to see pictures and videos from Sonfest, be sure to check out our Facebook page at WNZR 90.9 FM!

Also, today is Cooking Day, and if you know me at all, you know I love to cook, and I also love to eat. This celebration was established to honor and commemorate the joys of home cooking. Often taken for granted or deemed a time-consuming chore, cooking is a part of life we carry out daily to make food more flavorful and presentable, to exchange ideas and traditions, and to express our affection for one another. National Cooking Day’s purpose is to encourage and inspire everyone to discover and experience something new and enjoyable in the kitchen while preparing something extraordinary and delicious for loved ones.
So, because cooking can be a laborious task, I shared a few, simple, one pan meals to make with little preparation and super easy clean up!

Beef Tenderloin

Honey-Soy Glazed Salmon 

Balsamic Chicken

Baked Cod and Chorizo

Bacon Wrapped Pork Tenderloin

Shrimp Boil

Turkey and Bean Chili

Congratulations to Heather from Howard who won our Mystery Monday Trivia!
Our question was: What is the most expensive spice?
The answer? Saffron. At $5,000 per pound!

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

 

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9/11, Mystery Monday + Sonfest!

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Today we took some time to pause and remember September 11th…our hearts and prayers continue to go out to the families that were directly impacted by the events of that day.

We also remind you to uplift our friends in Florida dealing with the impact of Hurricane Irma’s winds and rain.  Here is where you can go to help through the practical, on the ground ministry of Samaritan’s Purse.

We’re gearing up for Sonfest in less than two weeks!  Today we launched our daily artist trivia for your chance to win a pair of tickets. Listen to the Morning Thing and the Afternoon Drive all week and all next week to win.

Today’s question was: Where is the band Anthem Lights originally from?  The answer? Nashville, Tennessee.  Congratulations to Ri from Bellville, who wins the Sonfest tickets AND the $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley.

Our Word of the Day is vamoose (vah-MOOSE), an American cowboy slang which means to leave in a hurry, or like the Spanish vamos.

Thanks for listening!
Joe and Lilly

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Mystery Monday (Special Dark version)

Mystery Monday

Happy Labor Day!

Today I was hiding and Lilly was guessing with the Mystery Box.

My items were a pair of Hershey’s Special Dark mini-bars with almonds. Congratulations to Jill from Mount Vernon who wins the $5 certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley. Special thanks to our MVNU President’s Office for providing the items today!

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Our Word of the Day is fais-dodo (fey doe-DOE), a noun that is Louisiana cajun slang for a country dance party.

Thanks for listening!
-Joe

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A Motor-Vehicle Mystery Monday!

Kicking off the first day of classes here at MVNU today, and WNZR, well, I’d say we’re back in full swing, but we never stopped swinging 🙂

T’was a fun Mystery Monday today, and we had an ‘On This Day’ type of question.
So… “On this day 1830 was the first ever demonstration of a locomotive against a horse-drawn carriage. Soooo…. 1. Who won the race… 2. why did they win the race? and 3. What was the name of the locomotive?”
The Horse-drawn Carriage won because the belt slipped off the locomotive, and the name of the Locomotive was Tom Thumb.

Congrats to Shawn from Howard!

Be sure to come visit us on Friday, September 1st at First Friday in Mt. Vernon!
Check out all the details here!

Our word of the day today was… ruth!
This means…

  • pity or compassion.
  • sorrow or grief.
  • self-reproach; contrition; remorse.

 

 

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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Poetry Mystery Monday!

Getting back to business here at WNZR!
Today, for Mystery Monday, we had a poetry mystery Monday question, and it was about the humble haiku!
They have a pattern of syllables that are required for it to be a haiku! Our question today, simply was, what is that pattern?

The pattern is…
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables

Congrats to Marsha from Danville!

Our word of the day was

Hebetude: lethargy, dullness

 

Did You Know?

Hebetude usually suggests mental dullness, often marked by laziness or torpor. As such, it was a good word for one Queenslander correspondent, who wrote in a letter to the editor of the Weekend Australian of “an epidemic of hebetude among young people who … are placing too great a reliance on electronic devices to do their thinking and remembering.” Hebetude comes from Late Latin hebetudo, which means pretty much the same thing as our word. It is also closely related to the Latin word for “dull,” hebes, which has extended meanings such as “obtuse,” “doltish,” and “stupid.” Other hebe- words in English include hebetudinous (“marked by hebetude”) and hebetate (“to make dull”).

Thanks for listening!-Lilly

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