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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Posted by Irene Soto at 12:25 pm under Uncategorized.

four-leaf-clover.gifIn honor of St. Patrick’s Day, here is some festive March-themed trivia:

  1. In what year was the term ”marshmallow peeps” first used in commerce?
  2. What major retailer was sued in 2004 because it refused to accept a shipment of dancing Easter bunnies?
  3. According to a 2007 Belfast Telegraph article, what three major American companies accounted for 20% of Irish exports?
  4. In 2007, a man in Britain was granted a patent for a process to make creme filled chocolate eggs that you can eat without getting the gooey filling or melted chocolate on your hands.  How?
  5. An unpublished 2003 case from the Western District of MI concerned the alleged negligent loss of a motorized barge: what was the name of the vessel?

Thanks to LexisNexis for these questions (and the 200 points I earned for answering ten of them)!  Answers after the jump.

  1. 1954
  2. Costco
  3. Intel, Dell, and Microsoft
  4. A stick
  5. Leprechaun 

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