n Mr. Peanut, the familiar monocled mascot of Planters Peanuts, was created by a 14-year-old Virginia schoolboy in 1916, winning a $5 prize sponsored by the company.
n Surprising non-requirements: Nine U.S. states have no minimum age requirements for their governors, and 14 states don’t require their governors to be U.S. citizens.
The trio of Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch are credited with six quotations in the latest edition of Bartlett’s. You may never have heard of them, but you’d recognize the quotes, which are all from:
A) A famous film
B) Presidential speeches
C) TV commercials
D) Animated cartoons
Tuesday’s answer: The $50,000 Lincoln Prize is awarded annually to the best scholarly work on the Civil War era.
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