The Ultimate Pizza Quiz

Charles Darrow developed Monopoly in 1933. When he sold the game to Parker Brothers, the cards were handwritten, and the houses were made from wooden molding scraps. Darrow’s nieces suggested that metal charms from charm bracelets be used for the pieces.

‘Typhoid Mary’ was a real person who immigrated to the United States in the 1880s! Mary Mallon worked as a cook and carried the bacteria in her blood. She didn’t feel sick and insisted on working, passing the illness on to at least 51 people before she was isolated in enforced quarantine for the remaining decades of her life!

Fall colors are caused by the amount of sugar in leaves. The more red in the leaf, the more sugar the leaf is storing. This is why Maple trees are so amazing, whereas Evergreens don’t change colors because their leaves have a thick wax covering that protects the chlorophyll in the leaves themselves.