The ice-cream brand known as Dreyer's in the Western United States and Texas is called Edy's elsewhere in the U.S. Wordplay detectives might suspect that "Edy's" is derived from "Dreyer's," since all of the letters of the former are found in the latter. But that's just a coincidence. The company was founded by Joseph Edy and William Dreyer in the 1920s.

An article in the SABR's latest Baseball Research Journal discusses the umpires that have held the major-league record for games worked in one season. The current record holder, Joe Paparella, worked 176 games in the 162-game season of 1962, which works out to only about five days off from April through September.

Many trivia fans know that Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1935.

The previous year, Tupelo made national headlines as the first city to receive electric power from the new Tennessee Valley Authority. Tupelo got its name from:
A) A Civil War general
B) An Indian tribe
C) A Greek god
D) A type of tree

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