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A ‘Cheesy’ Mystery Monday

Good afternoon! Back at it again here for Mystery Monday, and this week we’re playing mystery box! So I think I put a good stumper in there today!

From the hearing test, we learned that part of it is metallic, and it is not related to music in any way. We also learned that it is lightweight, and you can’t eat it.

From the smell test, or just asking questions, we learned that it is an item you’d find in a kitchen. We also learned that it is an item that you use in food prep.

When Joe got to touch the object, he got it right away.
He said it was a utensil you use to ‘break up blocks of cheese’
which was a cop-out, because CHEESE IS IN THE NAME!!!
Never the less, it was a a cheese slicer, and we want to congratulate Ruthie from Mt. Vernon! She correctly guessed! It was a stumper though.

Word of the Day
ARVO
[ahr-voh]
noun, Australian Slang.
1. afternoon.

 
Thanks for listening to the Arvo Drive!
-Lilly

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Lighthouses & Legacy

Good afternoon! I hope you’re having a great day!
We’re in full on festival mode here at WNZR, so today on the show, I talked about the Dan Emmett Music and Arts Festival, which is right around the corner, and also, lighthouses, because today is lighthouse day!
Here we go!

Lighthouse fun facts….

  • A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses, and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
  • Lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, and safe entries to harbors, and can assist in aerial navigation. Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and use of electronic navigational systems.
  • The modern era of lighthouses began at the turn of the 18th century, as lighthouse construction boomed in lockstep with levels of transatlantic commerce.
  • Winstanley’s lighthouse at the Eddystone Rocks marked the beginning in a new phase of lighthouse development.
  • The Eddystone Rocks were a major shipwreck hazard for mariners sailing through the English Channel. The first lighthouse built there was an octagonal wooden structure, anchored by 12 iron stanchions secured in the rock, and was built by Henry Winstanley from 1696 to 1698. His lighthouse was the first tower in the world to have been fully exposed to the open sea.
  • THE OLDEST EXISTING LIGHTHOUSE IN THE WORLD is considered to be La Coruna in Spain that dates from ca. 20 B.C. A Roman lighthouse is located on the Cliffs of Dover in the UK that was constructed in 40 A.D.
  • THE ONLY TRIANGULAR-SHAPED LIGHTHOUSE TOWER and THE ONLY LIGHTHOUSE EQUIPPED WITH AN ELEVATOR is Sullivan’s Island in Charleston, SC.
  • Lighthouse Keepers did not have uniforms introduced into the service until 1884.

Dan Emmett Facts…

  • Of Irish ancestry, Dan Emmett was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, then a frontier region. Growing up with little formal education, he learned popular tunes from his musical mother, and taught himself to play the fiddle.
  • At age 13, he became an apprentice printer and enlisted in the United States Army. He became an expert fifer and drummer at Newport Barracks, Newport, Kentucky, and published his own Fifer’s and Drummer’s Guide in 1862 in cooperation with George G. Bruce.
  • This year marks the 30th Dan Emmett Music and Arts Festival

    Our Mystery Monday Question today was Dan Emmett related!
    In the 1850’s, Dan Emmett wrote one of the most distinctively American musical products of the 19th century, and it’s this song that he’s still known for.

    What is the name of the song?
    The answer is ‘Dixie’!

    Congratulations to Sandi of Mt. Vernon!

    You can find more information and the complete Dan Emmett Music and Arts Festival schedule at their website, here!

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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Ohio State Fair Mystery Monday!

We would like to congratulate our 4 adult prize basket winners from the Knox County Fair!

Hog #1 – Sarah Row of Mount Vernon won a 222 pound hog from Meredith Overholt from Fredericktown.  The purchase price was $3.75 a pound giving a total price of $832.50.  Meredith is a part of Country Critters 4-H Club. WNZR purchased this hog with Kokosing Inc.

Hog #2 – Theresa Cobb of Mount Vernon won a 236 pound hog from Natalie Caudill from Centerburg.  The purchase price was $3.00 a pound giving a total price of $708.  Natalie belongs to the Centerburg FFA. WNZR purchased this hog with A+ Autobrokers.

Hog #3 – Grace Pozderac of Mount Vernon won a 262 pound hog from Jeremiah McKinley from Fredericktown.  The purchase price was $3.00 a pound giving a total price of $786.  4-H Club is Green Valley Giants. (WNZR purchased this hog with Kokosing Inc.)

Hog #4 – Rebecca Comerford of of Fredericktown won a 223 pound hog from Riley Farrell from Newark. The purchase price was $3.00 a pound giving a total price of $669.  Riley is a member of the Lighthouse 4H Club. (WNZR purchased this hog with A+ Autobrokers.)

We’d like to give a big thank you to all the 4-H kids, and our sponsors who made this prize basket possible!

Today is raspberry cake day, and oh my goodness, I would like to take this moment to formally thank my old high school friend’s mom, Mrs. Ritz. She made the most delicious raspberry, white chocolate layer cake for our Fine Arts Gala every year, and it is still, hands down, the best cake I’ve ever had.

Here are some fun raspberry facts for you…

  • Raspberries are a type of fruit known as an aggregate fruit. Aggregate fruits have flowers with multiple ovaries and each ovary produces druplets around a core formed by the flower. Each druplet could actually be considered a separate fruit.
  • There are over 200 different known species of raspberries but only 2 species are grown on a large scale.
  • Raspberries contain more vitamin C than oranges, are super high in fibre, low in calories and supply you with a good dose of folic acid. In addition to that, they are high in potassium, vitamin A and calcium.
  • Scotland is an unlikely raspberry haven. It’s famous for its raspberry growing. In the late 1950s, raspberries were brought down from Scotland to London on a steam train known as the Raspberry Special.

 

Thanks for listening!

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What makes or breaks a date?

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Today’s Mystery Monday question revolved around the quirks or personality traits that make or break a dating relationship.

Our question? 31% of singles shared in a recent survey said they wouldn’t date someone who didn’t do THIS. The answer? Eat meat. 31% of daters want a meat-eater! Congratulations to Breeonna from Mount Vernon who wins the $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley!

Here are some other true break-up or “no second date” reasons people shared on online forums:

They smelled like pancakes/Chewed with their mouth open/Bad tooth to gum ratio

Their nose whistled when they breathed/Had the same name as my dad or brothers

Thought people putting windshield wipers up on their cars was a gang ritual – gangs marking their territory

They had an annoying voice/His handwriting was nicer than mine

They didn’t use turn signals when driving/She had Winnie the Pooh bed sheets and towels

Not a gentleman or not a lady/They had no ambition/They were sloppy; messy

Too much video game playing/They were on the rebound from another relationship

They couldn’t swim, so they wouldn’t go into the deep end of the pool with me!

Today’s Word of the Day is fealty (FEE-ul-tee), a noun that means fidelity or faithfulness to a lord; it originated in Old France with the lord and vassal class system.

Thanks for listening!
-Joe

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Mystery Monday – All-Star edition!

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I’m back after a few days of R&R last week…but I do ask for prayers for Lilly’s family as she lost her uncle last week and is at his funeral services today.

Today our Mystery Monday focused on tomorrow night’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game with a two-part trivia question.

Today’s question: Who are the youngest position player and the youngest pitcher to ever start an All-Star Game?

Answers? Al Kaline, 1955 (20 years and 6 months) and Dwight Gooden, 1986 (21 years, seven months).  Congratulations to Ruthie from Mount Vernon who identified them and wins the $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley. Here are Kaline’s and Gooden’s baseball cards from those years:

Al Kaline card 1955Dwight Gooden card 1986

Today’s Word of Day is cannikin (CAN-ih-kin); a noun that means a small drinking cup or can. It can also mean a small wooden bucket.

Thanks for listening!
-Joe

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Mystery Monday!

Good afternoon!
I hope you had a great weekend!

We’re back with another week of music and fun here on the Afternoon Drive!
Today was mystery Monday, and man, this one went quick!
I did the shake test and we learned that this was an item that you’d find in most offices, and we have it here at WNZR.
Lydia from Mt. Vernon called in and correctly guessed that it was a can of air freshener!
She knew it before I did! Well, congratulations to Lydia!

Our Mystery Monday Question today was in what year did the Gibson Guitar Company release its first guitar for sale, and how much did it cost?

The year was 1935, and the cost was $150.
The guitar was the legendary ES-150.

These ES-150’s costed so much less back in the 1940’s, but now, they run for around $2,000. They are a little different now, because they aren’t really made anymore with the Charlie Christian pickups they were originally manufactured with. They are now made with dog ear P90’s.
Charlie Christian’s have a lot of power and warmth, but the tone is also very clear.
You could say the Charlie Christian looks a little like a nowadays hotrail. A hotrail is a really powerful, passive pickup that works better for hard rock and metal.
Now, Gibson makes ES-150’s with dog ear P90’s. P90’s can get you twangy country sounds, or harder humbucker type tones. It just depends on which pickup you’re using and what amp you’re playing through.

Here’s our word of the day…

Pompadour [pom-puh-dawr, -dohr, -doo r] 

noun
1. an arrangement of a man’s hair in which it is brushed up high from the forehead.
2. an arrangement of a woman’s hair in which it is raised over the forehead in a roll, sometimes over a pad.
3. a pink or crimson color.
 In Textiles…

any fabric, as cotton or silk, having a design of small pink, blue, and sometimes gold flowers or bouquets on a white background. Or a fabric of the color pompadour, used for garments.

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly the guitar nerd

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Mystery Question Monday

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Today’s Mystery Monday question came from a Harvard University study that showed that the average age for stopping THIS is 33.  So what is it that we stop?  We stop having a birthday party!

Congratulations to Donna of Mount Vernon who won the $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley.

Our Word of the Day is perspicuous (per-SPICK-you-us), an adjective that describes something plain to our understanding due to its clarity and precision of understanding. If your speaking or ideas are called perspicuous, it’s a compliment – it means people can understand you.

Thanks for listening!
-Joe

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A Cheesy Mystery Monday

Good afternoon!
Joe is on vacation this week, but I’m here holding down the fort!
Today on the show I talked a lot about dairy, because June is dairy month!
Check out the history of dairy month and some fun dairy facts below!

Also, do like my cheesy banner? HA! 🙂

Studying the history of Dairy takes us back far into the past, as dairy products have been with us since we first learned to domesticate an animal. You could even take it back a bit further and realize that the first food eaten by our most ancient ancestors was milk drawn from their mother’s breast. From there on out milk has been there to help us grow strong, healthy, and enjoy some amazing and delicious treats. 1937 saw the establishment of Dairy Month, a campaign to help encourage people to strengthen bones and build a foundation of good health by drinking rich, creamy, healthful milk. Throughout the nation dairy farmers start preparing to share the wonderful things that are included in the long and broad range of Dairy products.
Read more about the history of dairy month here!

Here’s some fun dairy facts!

  • A cow will produce an average of 6.3 gallons of milk each day.
    That’s more than 2,300 gallons each year!
  • U.S. dairy farms produce roughly 21 billion gallons of milk annually.
  • Fresh milk will stay fresher longer if you add a pinch of salt to each quart.
  • To get the amount of calcium in an 8-ounce glass of milk, you’d have to eat one-fourth cup of broccoli, seven oranges or six slices of wheat bread.
  • A cow is more valuable for its milk, cheese, butter and yogurt than for its beef.
  • More than 1,000 new dairy products are introduced each year.
  • A cow produces an average of 6.3 gallons of milk daily and 350,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.
  • Cows eat about 100 pounds of food every day and drink 50 gallons of water.
  • Cows have an acute sense of smell, and can smell something up to six miles away.

WHAT IF I”M LACTOSE INTOLERANT?! I NEED CALCIUM, RIGHT!?
Yes, of course you do. An 8-oz glass of milk contains around 300mg of calcium. You need around 600-700mg of calcium a day, but if you can’t get it from calcium rich dairy, you can get it from sources like spinach, kale, okra, collards, soybeans, white beans, and some fish, like sardines, salmon, perch, and rainbow trout.

For the Mystery Monday Mystery Question we delved into the average consumption of milk for the average American! Check out the question!
QUESTION: How many gallons of milk each year does the average American consume?ANSWER: The average American consumes almost 25 gallons of milk a year.

Congrats to our winner, Ruth from Utica, who guessed correctly and received a $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley!

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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CANDY MONTH Mystery Monday

I love candy, but who doesn’t?
Today on the show, Rachel and I talked all about candy!
Check out these fun facts!

  • The man who invented cotton candy, William James Morrison, was a dentist.
  • Fairy Floss was the original name of cotton candy.
  • Snickers, one of the most popular candy bars today, was named after the Mars family horse
  • A lollipop, which was invented by George Smith in 1908, was named after Lolly Pop, a racing horse.
  • Easter is one of the big candy holidays and each year candy companies make more than 90 million Easter bunnies and 16 billion jelly beans just for the one day holiday.
  • Almost everyone eats the ears off of their chocolate Easter bunnies before they eat anything else.
  • Across the country, red jelly beans are most commonly chosen as the favorite amongst children.
  • Almost every child in America will go trick or treating this year (93%).
  • If you laid out all the candy corn produced in a year from end to end, you could circle the Earth more than 4 times.
  • More than 75% of the candy given out during trick or treating is bite-size chocolate bars.

Our Mystery Monday Mystery Question was as follows…
In early 1995, Mars ran a promotion in which consumers could vote what color M&M replaced the tan M&M. What color ended up replacing the tan M&M.

The answer was BLUE! Congrats to Amy of Mt. Vernon who answered correctly!

Our word of the day today was, aptly, confectionery!
noun || con·fec·tion·ery || \kən-ˈfek-shə-ˌner-ē\
This is the confectioner’s art or business, sweet foods (such as candy or pastry, or  a confectioner’s shop!

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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