Quote of The Month

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson learned thoroughly.
— Thomas H. Huxley

The Great FSS Trivia Challenge

1) When Clark W. Griswold is not on vacation, what does he do for a living that enables him to take those vacations?

2) Though she died in January of 2007, later that year her book, “Bill of Wrongs, The Executive Branch’s Assault on America’s Fundamental Rights” was published.

3) For 2008, Disney is changing the name of it’s Disney MGM Studios theme park to this name.

4) In the summer of 2008, the world will turn its attention to the Olympic Games being held here.

5) Speaking of the Olympics, what Olympic Gold Medal winning runner was recently stripped of her medals when she admitted to her illegal steroid use?

6) Who is the only U.S. Senator to have lost re-election to a deceased opponent? (George W. Bush was so impressed that the folks in his state would elect a dead guy over him that he appointed him Attorney General)

7) In December of 2007, this singer whose hits included, Power of Gold, Run for the Roses & Leader of the Band died at his home in Maine.

8) This season ESPN has been counting down who they believe are the top 25 college football players of all time. Can you name the three players who finished in the first three spots on that list?

9) During the 2004 Super Bowl half-time show, this singer’s wardrobe allegedly malfunctioned during her performance.

10) The school board in this Pennsylvania community received a legal smack down when they attempted to implement the concept of Intelligent Design in to the science curriculum at their school.

11) Who coined the term “Voodoo Economics” in response to Ronald Reagan’s supply side economics theories?



Last Issue’s Puzzle Solution

1) Yosemite National Park, California
2) Pepper
3) Blondie
4) Las Vegas
5) Jacob Marley
6) No Holds Barred
7) K2
8) Our American Cousin
9) The Christmas Queen
10) Bruce Jenner
11) Kim Kardashian