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Mountain Dew and Figgy Pudding?

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Monday’s Mystery Box item was a can of Eddie’s Mountain Dew stash for MVNU finals week! I think he wants it back…

Congratulations to Pat from Mount Vernon who helped Joe guess correctly. She wins the $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley.

We also are doing the WNZR Christmas Gift Exchange all week on the show, so listen for the cue and be caller #9 at 740-397-WNZR.

We will also spend time this week thanking the many folks involved with the 2016 Knox County Food For The hungry drive.

Our Word of the Day was figgy, as in figgy pudding, a traditional British Christmas dessert, that really isn’t full of figs, and really isn’t what we would consider pudding at all!

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Notice it looks more like cake – a cake filled usually with raisins, currant and other types of dried fruit. It’s made with a brown sugar, flour and egg base, with some brandy as well.  Plus you are supposed to let it age for 4-5 weeks before eating it. I would just call this fruitcake!

Thanks for listening!
-Joe

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Mystery Monday: Tiny Christmas Cards

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Have you ever wondered what the worlds smallest Christmas Card looks like?  Well its 200 micro-meters wide by 290 micro-meters tall, and has a nice little Christmas tree on it.  For our mystery question today we asked who made it?  Mary of Mount Vernon called in and correctly told us it was Glasgow University, and she won a 5$ gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley.

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Thanksgiving Mystery Monday

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Today Mystery Monday, we started to do some Thanksgiving trivia and asked what year the first thanksgiving was celebrated.  Ruth of Mount Vernon correctly called in and told us it was 1621

Our word of the day was Duende, a noun which is Spanish for charm; magnetism.

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Mystery Monday Pumpkins

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Today for Mystery Monday Eddie discussed pumpkins, specifically how much the world largest pumpkin weighed.  Beni Meier grew the worlds largest pumpkin in 2014, and it weighed 2323.7 pounds (pictured above.)

Our word of the day is domicile a noun which means a dwelling place : place of residence : home.

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Canadian Mysteries and Operation Christmas Child

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Today was Mystery Monday so we asked our listeners to tell us what holiday is being celebrated today in Canada.  The answer is Canadian Thanksgiving!  Congratulations to Maude of Mount Vernon who correctly gave us the answer.  She wins a gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley.

We also discussed how Operation Christmas Child is fast approaching, and how you can prepare to help out in this wonderful ministry.  Their website is samaritanspurse.org/occ.

Our word of the day today is dilatory, an adjective which means tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.

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Mystery Box Monday: Mystery Soda

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It’s Mystery Box Monday, and this week Joe hid from Eddie.  After finding out that the item is both carbonated but not caffeinated, Kelly from Mount Vernon called in and correctly guessed that our item today is Root Beer.  She wins a $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley.

Our Word of the Day today is Druthers, which is a noun that means one’s own way, choice, or preference.

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Batman Day! (Mystery Monday)

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Today for Mystery Monday we celebrated Batman Day, a day to celebrate the debut of the caped crusader.  For our mystery question we asked what comic batman originally appeared in.  Sherrisa from Howard called in and correctly told us it was Detective Comics #27, and she won a 5$ gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley.

Our word of the day for today is Bon Mot, a noun meaning a witty remark or comment; clever saying; witticism.

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Budding Mystery Box…

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Today’s Mystery Box item ended up being Eddie’s ear buds…congratulations to Dan from Howard for helping me figure it out!

We also gave away our first pair of tickets to SonFest 2016, THIS Saturday at MVNU. Congratulations to Scott of Mount Vernon – he was our first winner. We’ll be doing this all week during the All-Request Drive Home. Tomorrow it’s SonFest artist trivia.

Our Word of the Day today is stentorian, an adjective meaning a loud and powerful voice!

Thanks for listening!

-Joe

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Mystery Monday – Video Games Day!

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Today and every September 12th is dubbed Video Games Day, to honor the sensation that started in 1950 at the Canadian National Exhibit with a computer named Bertie that could play Tic-Tac-Toe.

Eddie asked this trivia question: what are two of the top three selling video games of all time? This article by Forbes magazine answers the question. Congratulations to Spencer from Utica who guessed all three – Tetris (above), Minecraft and Wii Sports. He wins the $5 certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley.

Our Word of the Day is nerfing, a verb which is making a change to a video game that makes something less effective or desirable.

Thanks for listening!

-Joe

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