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A Musical Mystery Monday!

Good afternoon! Another wonderful week here in Mt. Vernon, and I kicked the week off by giving away a $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley, and registering 2 people to win a turkey from Smithhisler Meats of Mt. Vernon!

We would like to wish congratulations to Bob of Howard and
They were entered to win that Turkey from Smithhisler Meats!

Today, our Mystery Question was inspired by today’s fun holiday.. Saxophone day!
Now I can say that I’ve been an active celebrator of this holiday since I picked up the saxophone in 6th grade. (See the included picture).
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The saxophone family was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax. Adolphe Sax wanted to create a group
of instruments that would be the most powerful and vocal of the woodwinds, and the most adaptive of the brass instruments, that would fill the vacant middle ground between the two sections. Sax patented the saxophone in two groups of seven instruments each. Each series consisted of instruments of various sizes in alternating transposition. The series pitched in B♭ and E♭, designed for military bands, have proved popular and most saxophones encountered today are from this series. Instruments from the so-called “orchestral” series, pitched in C and F, never gained a foothold, and the B♭ and E♭ instruments have now replaced the C and F instruments when the saxophone is used in an orchestra.

Congrats to Hayley from Mt. Vernon who correctly guess our Mystery Question!
The question was: What year was the saxophone invented?
The year was 1846!

Our hearts here at WNZR are hurting for those who were affected by the tragedy in Texas this weekend. Romans 12:9 tells us to hate what is evil and cling to what is good.
The song ‘Bleed the Same’ from Mandisa tells us to fight for each other, and let love be the cry if we’re shouting. We’re all the same inside, and we need to pray that God heals our incredible land, because we are more beautiful when we come together.
Check out Mandisa’s song here.

Thanks for listening!

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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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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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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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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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Mystery Monday at the Fair!

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Lilly and I are On the Road with Big Blue at the 2017 Knox County Fair all week.  Make sure you tune in for the latest updates from the shows and conversations with news makers at the fairgrounds.

Our Facebook and website galleries will also be updated daily with pictures.

Today’s Mystery Monday fair-themed question: what are at least four breeds of rabbits shown at the Knox County Fair?  Rachel from Mount Vernon guessed four: New Zealand, Dutch, Holland Lop and Mini Rex.  She wins the $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley.

Jane from Mount Vernon also won our tickets to see For King and Country and Zach Williams at the Ohio State Fair one week from tonight!  Their first hit single was “Busted Heart,” released in 2011.

Thanks for listening!
-Joe

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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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