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| Francis – One of My Favorite Buzzy Visitors – Even When He Is Not Joking and Smiling |
Francis Wood trivia question for you – name the two days in the year when no professional male sports are played (click here for the answer. Hint – today is one of them.)
When it comes to trivia, trick questions and riddles Francis is the king of such matters. Whenever he drops in to visit me at Buzzy’s Country Store, he trots out a slew of crazy facts and info in a stream of consciousness that it is unreal. I keep thinking that there will come a time when I have heard all that he has to say. However, after several years of his frequent visits, Francis still amazes me with the “stuff” that he comes up with.
The puzzler for me is that I never know if the question Francis asks me is a trick one or not. For instance he will ask “How many months have 28 days in them?” I answer “One. February” and he then informs me that ALL of the months have 28 days in them but some have 30 and some have 31! He then proceeds with the knuckle trick to show me how to know which months are which. (I knew the knuckle trick, but he did fool me with the 28 days’ query.)
Another of Francis’ wasn’t a trick question but a straight up geography quiz: “Are there more states east of the Mississippi or west of the Mississippi? Remember to include Alaska and Hawaii.” Answer – east has 26, west has 24. And on it goes.
I thought I had a summertime riddle to stump Francis with the other day. I hit him with the following that I had read somewhere in my travels:
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. You then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you just eat?
Without hesitation Francis said “An ear of corn. Everybody knows that.”
Guilty pleasure confession time, I have always liked the song Moon River even when it was being performed back in the day by the likes of Andy Williams, Perry Como, Frank and all those other crooners. It took Eric and Jeff to prove me correct in what I had thought all along – this a great song regardless who covers it. And just to conclude on a trivia note – what movie was it that Moon River won an academy award for Best Song (click here.)