Mar
17
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Posted by Irene Soto at 12:25 pm under Uncategorized.
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, here is some festive March-themed trivia:
- In what year was the term ”marshmallow peeps” first used in commerce?
- What major retailer was sued in 2004 because it refused to accept a shipment of dancing Easter bunnies?
- According to a 2007 Belfast Telegraph article, what three major American companies accounted for 20% of Irish exports?
- 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?
- An unpublished 2003 case from the Western District of MI concerned the alleged negligent loss of a motorized barge: what was the name of the vessel?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.
- 1954
- Costco
- Intel, Dell, and Microsoft
- A stick
- Leprechaun