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30th Anniversary Celebration!

It's our anniversary!  

2016 is Office Express' 30th Anniversary and we'd like you to celebrate with us!  If you read our blog, you know that we have a weekly Trivia Contest (and if you don't read our blog, you really should!).  We post a trivia question and give a prize to the first person who emails us the correct answer.  Well, beginning May 1, our normal Trivia Contest will get a little more interesting.

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Hello again!  I see you've come back once again to test your knowledge of all things trivia.  Well, I'm ready for you!  Today I'm dusting off a category that I haven't used for a while, but you do so well with it that I thought I'd try it again.  Today's topic is:

Common Denominators

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"Singing in the Rain, I'm singing in the rain.  What a glorious feelin' - I'm happy again!"

I love musicals.  Sometimes I think I was born a few decades too late.  But musicals are still around on Broadway and today I'm going to test your knowledge.  So put your thinking caps on for our topic:

Broadway Musicals

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Today I'm going to test your knowledge of vexillology.

 

Huh?

Ta Da!  The Wizard of OEX Presents:  Fun With Flags.  (Not to be confused with Dr. Sheldon Cooper's show of the same name.)

 

That's right - today's topic is:

Flag Trivia

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Well, it's all over.   The crowds have gone home - some happy, some not so happy.  The football season is officially over - Super Bowl 50 is in the books.  

Let's see how much you know about this time-honored classic.  Yes, today's topic is: 

Super Bowl Trivia

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Sometimes when I watch TV commercials I get really depressed because I realize that I'm in the wrong business.  Think about it  - somebody got paid a LOT of money to come up with the finger with a face drawn on it  (Ziploc sandwich bags).  

Seriously?

Do you remember the product or just the commercial?  Do you remember the name of the company that belongs to the slogan?  Let's find out.  Today's topic is:

Slogans

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Did you know that the youngest commercially published author is Dorothy Straight, who wrote How the World Began in 1962, at age 4?  It was published in 1964, by Pantheon Books.

And did you know that Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words?

Very interesting...................................

So interesting, in fact, that I decided to make today's topic:

Book Trivia

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When I was a kid, I didn't like my name and I often thought about changing it.  I had a nickname (as many kids do) and went by that name with family and friends, but not in school.  I sometimes dreamed of being a celebrity and what my new name would be.  Which, if you follow my blogs, you know is leading me to today's topic:

Birth Names of Famous People

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Here we are again - another Wednesday.  That means it's Trivia Day!  (The crowd roars)

If you read my blog on Monday, you know that I was highlighting a crayon sharpener made by Elmer's.  You all know Elmer's (Elmer's Glue).  Well, today's topic is:

Elmer's Trivia

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My family and I went to visit my parents over the Christmas holiday and we spent some time playing games.  My parents still have some of the board games I used to play as a kid, like Aggravation.  Never heard of that one?  Guess I've got a few years on you..............Oh well.

Today's topic has to do with a game everybody knows.  That's right - today's topic is:

Monopoly Trivia

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Christmas is almost here - I can't wait!  I'm still a kid at Christmastime, even though I'm <cough> years old.  (Sorry - had a tickle in my throat.)  I've had some Christmas songs running through my head all week, so I decided to do another quiz devoted to Christmas Trivia, specifically:

Christmas Songs

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.....everywhere you go......................

Except here in Michigan.  It's December 17 and it's been in the upper 50's and 60's for about a week now.  No snow in sight............(that's my kind of winter!)

In honor of the upcoming holiday, I have:

Christmas Trivia

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