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On January 24, 1922, Christian Nelson was issued a patent for the world’s first Eskimo Pie. Little did he know how his ice cream creation would cause a ripple effect that would actually change the course of several major corporations in the years that followed. Come along with Tidbits as we learn how the little Eskimo Pie has had a mighty impact on a few other familiar names!

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• In the early 1920s, Christian Nelson operated a candy store and ice cream parlor in Iowa. One day a young boy with enough money for only one item couldn’t decide whether to buy a chocolate bar or ice cream. The boy’s dilemma caused Christian to wonder why both couldn’t be combined into a single tasty treat.

• Nelson began experimenting. After trying numerous ideas, he found that mixing cocoa butter with melted chocolate allowed the mixture to stick to ice cream when frozen. To make it unique, he shaped the ice cream into a round disc, coated it with the chocolate mixture and let it harden. He called his creation the “I-Scream Bar,” and it was an instant success with his customers.

• Wanting to get his idea patented but having little money, he went to his friend Russell

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• Alfred Cralle was born in Virginia in 1866, just after the Civil War ended. He was black, and although his options were limited, he never let that stop his eagerness to advance himself.

• He learned carpentry from his father, attended local schools, and became interested in mechanics. Because he excelled at school, his father sent him to Washington, D.C. to attend Wayland Seminary. This was one of several schools founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to educate African-Americans after the Civil War.

• Later he settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He got a job working as a porter in the Markell Brothers drug store and St. Charles Hotel. While working at the drug store, he noticed how popular ice cream had become, and also how difficult it was to serve. It consistently stuck to the spoon or ladle that was being used to scoop it, and required either two hands or two people to get it into the dish. He was determined to solve the pesky problem.

• Being mechanically inclined, he set to work on finding a solution. The first prototype he showed to the Markell Brothers was a simple stick with a cone-shaped object mounted on the end. The Markell Brothers didn’t think it would work, until Cralle took a container of ice cream and demonstrated it for them, easily plopping a perfectly-shaped mound of ice cream into a dish. The men were duly impressed.

• On February 2, 1897, Cralle was granted a patent for what he called an “ice cream mold and disher” now known as the ice cream scoop. It was designed to keep ice cream as well as other foods from sticking to the utensil, and it was simple to operate with only one hand.

• Cralle’s design was strong, durable, effective, and inexpensive. It could be constructed in a variety of shapes depending on whether a cone or a mound was desired. It could be constructed out of a variety of materials. There were no delicate parts that could malfunction. His simple device allowed ice cream to be served faster, with less effort, and more hygienically.

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• Cralle never received much in the way of financial success from his invention, nor did he receive any wide-spread acclaim. However, when the Afro-American Financial, Accumulating, Merchandise and Business Association was organized in Pittsburgh, he was named Assistant Manager.

• Cralle was 30 years old when he was granted his patent, married with two daughters and a son. His wife and one daughter died in 1918 during a flu epidemic. His son died of disease in 1918, and Cralle himself was killed in an automobile accident in 1920. But his daughter Anna lived to the age of 98 and died in 2009. By then her father’s invention had become standard issue in households around the world.

• Next time you bend your spoon handle in half for lack of an ice cream scoop, think of Alfred Cralle, and say a word of thanks.

• When choosing an ice cream scoop, pick one with a good grip on the handle so it won’t slip if your hands are wet. Be sure it has sharp edges so it will cut easily into the ice cream. Get one with a big wide scoop to give you the biggest bite. Drag the scoop in an S-shape across the surface of the ice cream tub. If you’re scooping multiple dishes, keep the hot water handy and dip the scoop in between times. The water lubricates the metal to further prevent sticking.

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and after a lengthy battle a judge finally ruled that chocolate covered ice cream simply was not something that could be exclusively patented, and they lost control.

• Discouraged and demoralized, Russell sold his half of the company back to Nelson for $25,000. Nelson later turned around and sold the entire business to the tin foil firm that made their wrappers. Nelson lived a long life and died a wealthy man in 1992 at the ripe old age of 99.

RUSSELL’S CHOCOLATE• During his partnership with Nelson, Russell

developed an interest in making chocolate candy. After selling his share of the Eskimo Pie company, he and his wife Clara moved to Denver, Colorado, and used the money to start a candy making business in the basement of their home. Determined to produce the highest-quality chocolates they could, they hand-dipped their chocolates, resisting the use of automatic machine-dipping because hand-dipping made a thicker layer of chocolate. On their first day of business in December of 1923, they sold 120 pounds of chocolate, netting a handsome $90 profit.

• One year later and still operating out of their basement, they had opened five candy shops throughout Denver and employed 30 people. Always looking for ways to make their products and packaging uniquely stand out, they became well known for selling chocolates in heart-shaped boxes for Valentine’s Day.

• When Russell died in 1954, Clara continued to run the company. She sold the business in 1960 to Louis Ward, the manufacturer who had supplied them with the popular heart-shaped boxes.

• Ward continued to expand the business until it became the third largest American chocolate manufacturer, behind only Hershey and Mars. Today, more than 60% of boxed chocolates come from this company, which still bears the name of its founder -- Russell Stover.

A NEW FOIL• Richard Joshua was a tobacco baron and the

uncle of Richard Samuel, who worked for him. At the time, cigarettes were wrapped in foil made from a mixture of tin and lead. As the demand for cigarettes increased, so did demand for tin foil, and it was constantly in short supply.

• Seeing a lucrative business opportunity, nephew Richard borrowed $100,000 from his uncle, then left the tobacco firm in 1919 to start up his own tin foil manufacturing company. Other tin foil producers did not take kindly to his competition and tried to run him out of business by lowering their prices.

• But soon the price of aluminum dropped dras-tically, and Richard discovered that making foil from aluminum was far less expensive – and far more sensible – than making it from a mixture of tin and lead. Aluminum foil was

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• When the product was introduced to the market it caused such a consumer buying frenzy that the company could barely keep up with demand. And almost overnight they became the biggest consumer of tin foil in the entire nation.

• As a way to handle the mounting stacks of orders, they licensed individual dairies to make the Eskimo Pie product themselves in exchange for a royalty on their sales to be paid to the partners. But too many dairies hedged their sales reports to reduce the royalties they owed, while others actually infringed on the patent by copying the Eskimo Pie and making their own similar products.

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● It was feminist and social activist Gloria Steinem who made the following sage obser-vation: “Logic is in the eye of the logician.”

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How Secure Is Your New Tablet? Did you or anyone in your family get a tab-let computer over the holidays? Was it an inexpen-sive one, perhaps purchased on Black Friday? If so, beware. You need to check your de-vice for security vulnerabilities. A number of these tablets were sent out with problems that can cause you big headaches ... especially if you’ve given it to a child who intends to sign up at sites online. Bluebox (bluebox.com), whose business it is to secure mobile data, issued a report on 14 Android tablets being promoted over the big sales weekend. Eleven cost less than $50. Of the 14, only two were deemed “secure,” while the rest had varying levels and combinations of pre-installed vulnerability, security misconfigurations and even a backdoor. One was so bad that the company’s scanning program had never come across an ar-rangement quite like that. To see the names and models of the tab-lets, go to the Bluebox site and look for “Santa or the Grinch: Android Tablet Analysis for the 2014 Holiday Season.” The bugs found were FakeID, Futex, Masterkey and Heartbleed. Among Bluebox’s suggested steps to se-cure your mobile device for iOS: get the latest soft-ware and check for updates; enable the security features, such as passcode, SIM card, restrictions and auto-lock; prompt to join Wi-Fi networks; and turn off Wi-Fi (and your hotspot) when you’re not using it. For the full list of suggestions, go to blue-box.com/ios-user-security-guide. For Android 4x or 5x, Bluebox has security steps for versions 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) up to 5 (Lollipop). While the iOS guide has 15 steps, there are 21 steps to securing an Android device. Tablets aren’t the only devices at risk right now. Days after the Bluebox report on tablets, an-other security company, Palo Alto Networks (www.paloaltonetworks.com), found a serious problem on 24 models of mobile phones, including a vul-nerability that had been modified “to make it much more difficult for antivirus programs to detect the backdoor.”

And that very same day, Akamai Technolo-gies, Inc. (www.akamai.com) disclosed a new cybersecurity threat that targets iOS and Android devices, and can include tricking users into down-loading malicious apps, which can lead to denial of service attacks and much, much more. Nervous yet? Take steps to safeguard your devices. Keep your software up to date, stay away from free Wi-Fi, turn off automatic steps, be care-ful what apps you download ... and keep an eye on children using these devices.

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• John knew ice cream that came out of the spigot at 23°F tasted better than the stuff sold to the customer at -10°. Ice cream numbs the taste buds at about 0°F, which interferes with the sense of taste.

• What the world really needed, he decided, was ice cream that could be served at 18°F. He experimented, finding that less butterfat made a softer ice cream that could be handled very easily at that temperature, while still retaining its shape. By 1938 he had the recipe down pat.

• He sold his first franchise in 1940. Today there are about 5,700 outlets selling this soft-serve ice cream. What’s the franchise called?

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needed a name for the product. He had always been fond of Denmark, so he decided a Danish name would be best. The name he chose means nothing in the Danish language, but Rueben wanted people to look at the name and think, ‘Is this imported?’ For good measure he included a map of Scandinavia on the label.

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Q: Can you tell me when “Parks and Recreation” will be back? I thought it had one more season. -- Daniel G., via email

A: “Parks and Rec” will be back for a 13-ep-isode seventh (and final) season on Tuesday, Jan. 13, at 8 p.m. ET. The season begins in the year 2017, with the town of Pawnee not quite the same as when we left it in 2014. Chris Pratt’s fun-loving, dim-witted character of Andy stars in a Johnny Karate TV show; Leslie and Ben have toddler triplets; and Tom is a mogul of some sort. Jon Hamm, Rashida Jones, Rob Lowe, Megan Mullally and Natalie Morales will all pop up during the show’s final season. ***

Q: I keep hearing great things about the FX series “Fargo,” but I don’t have cable. Is it out on DVD, or is there another way I can watch it? -- Frannie D., Springfield, Illinois

A: Season one of this wonderful FX dra-ma/suspense series -- starring Billy Bob Thornton, Colin Hanks, Allison Tolman and Martin Freeman -- is now available on DVD. And Hulu recently an-nounced that it has acquired the streaming rights for the series. No exact date has been announced, but season two will premiere sometime this fall on FX. ***

Q: I’ve gotta have my “Justified”! -- Freddie F., via email

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would have to prove that he or she was dependent on the other spouse’s income. But in order to keep administrative costs down, and prevent the govern-ment from having to dig too deeply into the financial affairs of married couples applying for Social Secu-rity benefits, Congress decided that dependency would simply be assumed if the dependent spouse’s own Social Security check was less than half of the primary wage-earning spouse’s retirement benefit. Here is a typical example of how that as-sumed dependency is implemented: Fred retired with a Social Security benefit of $1,800 per month. His wife, Wilma, also retired. But because she spent many years out of the paid labor force raising their family, she ended up with a smaller monthly Social Security check of $600. Because Wilma’s Social Security was less than half of Fred’s benefit, her financial dependency was just assumed, so she qualified for a wife’s supplemental benefit from Fred’s account. She got an extra $300 in wife’s benefits added to her own $600 retirement check, giving her a total of $900 -- or one half of Fred’s $1,800 benefit. (Before I go on, I must make the point that in order to keep my math simple in the above ex-ample, I just assumed both Fred and Wilma waited until age 66 to claim benefits. Every single time I use an example like this, I get emails, mostly from women, who say, “I don’t get half of my husband’s Social Security. Am I getting paid incorrectly?” Af-ter some back and forth emails, I always learn that the emailer took benefits before age 66, resulting in a reduced payment amount. For example, a woman who took benefits at 62 would only be due about one-third of her husband’s Social Security.) OK, back to the main point of this column. Spousal benefits are supposed to be paid to wives or husbands who are DEPENDENT on the higher-earning spouse. The assumed dependency rules explained in the Fred and Wilma example worked just fine until the 1990s, when Congress passed the Senior Citizens Right to Work Act. This is the law that allowed folks over age 66 who were still working to claim their Social Security. (Prior to that change in the law, folks who were still working had to wait until age 70 to claim Social Security.) And the new law also allowed folks to forego their Social Security benefits at 66 and earn a bonus equal to two-thirds of one percent for each month they delayed starting their Social Security -- up to age 70. That comes out to a 32 percent bonus added to their benefits at 70. But the new law ended up with a huge loop-hole. Because people could forego their own ben-efits at 66, they obviously were getting nothing on their own account, and thus using the 1939 rules, they could simply be deemed dependent on the oth-er spouse’s Social Security.

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Water Smarts? Q: What advice would you have for a couple of aging seniors who want to stay healthy and add as many years to our lives as possible? My wife and I are now in our 80s and try to stay up on health tips that actually work. We’ve read a lot of articles and seen lots of commer-cials making these claims, but I’m wondering if you have any suggestions for some you might recommend as really being effective. We’re par-ticularly interested in heart health.

A: There are a lot of diets, ointments, pills and products of every kind out there making all kinds of bold claims for helping seniors add years to their lives, but far be it from me to make any en-dorsements for them. One reader sent me a list of water-drinking recommendations which I found interesting and pass along for your information. Included on the list were these tips: “Drinking water at a certain time maximizes its effectiveness on your body. Drinking two glasses of water after waking up helps activate internal or-gans. One glass of water 30 minutes before a meal helps digestion. One glass of water before taking a bath helps lower blood pressure. One glass of water before going to bed helps avoid stroke or heart at-tack.” Doctor Virend Somers, a Mayo Clinic car-diologist, found in a heart study he conducted that

● On Jan. 23, 1775, London merchants petition Parliament for relief from the fi-nancial hardship put upon them by the cur-tailment of trade with the North American colonies. Most critical to the merchants’ concerns were the 2 million pounds ster-ling in outstanding debts owed to them.

● On Jan. 19, 1915, during World War I, Britain suffers its first casualties from an air attack when two German zeppe-lins drop bombs on Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn on the eastern coast of Eng-land.

● On Jan. 20, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the second time as president. The Constitution had originally set March 4 as the presidential inauguration date to allow the winner time to travel to the nation’s capital.

● On Jan. 25, 1949, the Academy of Tele-vision Arts & Sciences holds its first annu-al awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The now-famous award statuette “Emmy” was a feminized version of “immy,” the short-hand term for the image orthicon tube that was used in TV cameras until the 1960s.

● On Jan. 24, 1956, Look magazine publishes the confessions of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, two white men from Mis-sissippi who were acquitted in the 1955 kidnapping and murder of black teenager Emmett Till. In August 1955, on a visit to relatives, the 14-year-old Till had alleg-edly whistled at a white woman who ran a store.

● On Jan. 21, 1977, President Jimmy Carter grants an unconditional pardon to hundreds of thousands of men who evad-ed the draft during the Vietnam War. Some 100,000 young Americans went abroad, with 90 percent going to Canada. The Ca-nadian government had instructed border guards not to ask too many questions.

● On Jan. 22, 1981, the final portrait of John Lennon and wife, Yoko, appears on the cover of Rolling Stone. The photo, tak-en 12 hours before Lennon was assassi-nated, shows a naked Lennon curled up in a fetal embrace with a fully clothed Yoko. Photographer Annie Liebowitz had been told by a Rolling Stone editor, “Please get me some pictures without [Yoko].”




















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most heart attacks occur generally between 6 a.m. and noon. Having an attack during the night, when your heart should be most at rest, means that some-thing unusual happened. He believes that apnea is to blame in these cases. Some doctors recommend that if you take an aspirin or a baby aspirin once a day, take it at night. The reason is that aspirin has a 24-hour “half-life.” Therefore, if most heart attacks happen in the wee hours of the morning, the beneficial blood-thinning effects of the aspirin would be at its strongest in your system during that period. As each of us differ in our gene history, our health habits, attitudes and other factors, it is always wise to consult with your doctor before taking it upon yourself to make any health changes.

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from 1860 to 1976. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, there was a plethora of silver manufacturers with the name Rogers. Some were family related, and some were not. Records show the companies were founded, and then later some merged with others, and eventually some changed connections. The mark you described was used during the late 1800s. Napkin rings often with attached fig-ures of animals were very popular in the Victorian Era. In the pre-automatic washing machines, it was practical for each person to reuse his or her napkin. Each napkin was tucked in an individual’s napkin ring after a meal was served to be used another day. Your figural napkin ring would probably be worth $125 to $225.

Q: Enclosed is the mark that is on the bottom of a matching sugar bowl and cream pitcher. Each piece is shaped like a head of cauliflower with pink interiors, and both are in perfect condition. It originally belonged to my great-great-grandmother. She was married in 1888, and we think it was a wedding gift. It has been in the family ever since. I plan to pass it along to my daughter and would like more information about the set. Anything you can tell me about its maker and value will be appreciated.

A: Your set is an example of Majolica. It was made by Griffen, Smith and Hill who were located in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, from 1879 to 1889. Ma-jolica is a term for lead-glazed earthenware that was decorated in bright colors. Victorians found majolica ware extremely appealing. Pieces were inspired by shapes in nature and also the sea. Majolica ware was made by companies in both the United States and Europe. Along with sugar bowls and cream pitchers, there were coffee, tea and dinner sets made in the “Cauliflower” pattern.

Figural Napkin Rings Were a Victorian Innovation Q: Enclosed is a photo of a silver nap-kin ring that I bought while traveling through West Virginia. The hen is attached to the side of the ring. Marked on the bottom are the words “Rogers and BNQ Triple Plated 267” -- along with a clutched fist with 10 lightning bolts shooting out of the fist. Any information or value would be ap-preciated.

A: Take another look at the mark on your silver plated napkin ring. The letters “BNQ” are ac-tually “BRO.” Rogers and Brothers Manufacturing Company was located in Waterbury, Connecticut,

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The golf swing can become bogged down into angles, forces, planes, degrees, and a myriad of other technical elements. Unfortunately, most golfers can’t relate to the engineering language of golf instruction that is becoming popular of late. Junior golfers and golf “athletes” work bet-ter off of images that they have used in the past, or can easily imitate. The right arm in the golf swing most simulates the throwing action seen in many sports. The arm floats away from the body into a folded posi-tion at the top of the windup, with the wrist flexed in preparation to throw. No athlete has the arm glued to the body, nor the wrist curled (like mak-ing a muscle).

By practicing the common throwing position with a ball or golf club (one handed), you’ll soon achieve the natural, powerful position that many top golfers achieve. Jack Nicklaus was criticized in his prime of having a “flying elbow” yet he just didn’t try to glue his elbow to his body. Rather than thinking about angles or degrees, simply float your right arm into its best throwing position at the top

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ENDANGERED SIGHTS & SOUNDS (cont’d):• How long has it been since you’ve used a

typewriter eraser? Or, if you’re younger, have you moved your belongings into a long-unused desk, only to find a strange-looking gadget with fiber-like hairs bushing out of one end? What you’ve found is a typewriter eraser. Usually shaped like a pencil, the tip was made of an especially-abrasive rubber, which was used to “erase” the typing error. The other end featured a small brush made of stiff plastic strands that was used to sweep the remnants of the erasure off the page.

• There’s no shortage of litter on the ground to-day, but thankfully, we no longer see discarded pull-tabs. The tabs on older easy-open beverage cans pulled completely off the can. People who walked in bare feet were constantly dodging these carelessly-dropped metal hazards.

• The rhythmic “beep” of the scanner is the musical accompaniment to the supermarket checkout line. But if you’ve ever wondered where the cliché of saying “ka-ching!” in re-lation to money comes from, that’s the sound that the old-style electric, not electronic, cash registers made. Cashiers of that era had to manually punch a series of buttons to ring up your purchase, followed by a smack of the “total” button with the heel of the hand.

• “Do you want your carbons?” used to be an automatic question asked by merchants after you’d signed for a credit card payment. At that time, credit card receipts were filled out by hand in triplicate, with a small piece of carbon paper inserted between each sheet. It didn’t take long for thieves to realize they could retrieve the used carbons from the trash and steal valuable credit card information. Once that scam gained popularity, waiters and cashiers regularly of-fered the carbons to customers, giving them the opportunity to destroy them.

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Front PageHow many have paid good money fora ticket to a horror film, only to cover their eyes and “see” very little of it?

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SCARY MOVIESby Ryan Toepfer

Some people just seem to love having the living daylights scared out of them. Why else would horror and suspense movies be so popular? To celebrate Halloween, Tidbits goes behind the scenes of some classic thrillers.• When Alfred Hitchcock purchased the film

rights for Psycho, he also bought up as many copies of the original novel as he could find, hoping to keep the story’s ending a secret.

• The famous shower scene of Psycho was filmed using a double for Norman Bates, as Anthony Perkins was appearing in a play (Greenwillow)in New York at the time. The first time Perkins actually saw that scene was back at the studio, watching the daily “rushes,” and he said he was just as scared as everyone else.

• Take a close look at Michael Myers’ mask in the 1978 camp classic Halloween. Does the face look familiar? The movie was filmed on such a tight budget, that the prop department had to make do with what they had. For Myers’ disguise, they used an old Captain Kirk (StarTrek) mask, which they spray painted white and then re-shaped the eyeholes.

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Christian Nelson to produce the foil wrap for his Eskimo Pies. He had to purchase new equipment and hire new crews in order to produce enough foil to individually wrap millions of the little round pies. He then devised a way to add color printing on the foil surface, making the wrap even more attractive and unique.

• Nelson’s Eskimo Pies were by far Richard’s single biggest customer, and he owed his growing success to that valuable partnership. When Nelson offered him the opportunity to buy out his business in 1924, he didn’t hesitate to do so.

• Producing Eskimo Pies as his own product using his own foil wrapping facilities and equipment kept his overhead low. The demand for Eskimo Pies continued to grow, and his lucrative profit margins produced windfalls of new revenue.

• Richard soon began to explore ways of mak-ing other products with aluminum alloys, and before long the company was into the production of aluminum siding, aluminum cans, automotive products, and much more.

• Still well known for its popular aluminum foil, the company bears the last name shared by both uncle Richard and his nephew: Reynolds -- as in Reynolds Wrap, and the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

• The Reynolds Company today has grown to become the third largest aluminum and packaging company in the world -- with thanks to a big boost from the little Eskimo Pie.

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2. LANGUAGE: What does the Lat-in phrase “in media res” mean?

3. MOVIES: What movie featured the line, “The point is, ladies and gen-tleman, that greed — for lack of a bet-ter word — is good”?

4. AD SLOGANS: What American manufacturing company once used the slogan “Quality is job one” to sell its products?

5. MUSIC: What does it mean to play notes in a “staccato” style?

6. U.S. PRESIDENTS: What was the Secret Service’s code name for Ronald Reagan?

7. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: How many official languages does the Unit-ed Nations have?

8. MYTHOLOGY: Who were the Norns in Norse mythology?

9. TELEVISION: What television sitcom featured parents who were named Al and Peggy?

10. MEDICAL TERMS: What is the common name for monochromatism?

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