Latest News for February 18, 2004

Quiz Time

What do Orson Welles, Luna Shemada, Houdini and William McKinley have in common? Isn’t that just like one of those quizzes at the back of Magic magazine? I spend hours trying to link the commonalities between the people each month and each month I’m wrong. Remember when they had this list: Thurston, Keller, Pee-Wee Herman and Kim Jong-il, and Marshall Brodien?

I was thinking, “people who used playing cards on television” but then I remembered Kellar and Thurston weren’t on tv.

Then I thought, “people who have performed at the Grand Old Opry theater. But when I re-read my history, I found that Pee-Wee Herman performed at the new Grand Old Opry Theater.

Then the next issue of Magic came and I learned it was, “people who wore bow ties and loved Irish line dancing.”

Who knew?

Well, the answer to our “what do they have in common” question can be found in The Magic News of the Day. Check it out but try to guess first.


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