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HOT FACTS ABOUT PIZZA FLASH BACK

TRIVIA
The nation celebrates National cheap meal to make at home.
Pizza Month each October. There Researchers at The Artificial By Mick Harper
are plenty of reasons to love pizza, Language Laboratory used a
and during this special month pizza computer to order a pizza in 1974 Questions:
lovers can dig into new ways to to test the computer’s speaking
get their fill of this famous comfort ability. The order was a pepperoni, 1. Who sang the theme song for the
food. Check out these facts that are mushroom, ham, and sausage pizza TV series “Secret Agent Man” in
bound to get you even more fired from local pizzeria Mr. Mike’s. the 1960s?
up about pizza, courtesy of Papa 2. What is the Hully Gully?
Woody’s Pizza, DeNiro’s Pizza, Big Around 80 percent of Italian cheese 3. Who released “Blue Suede
Mario’s New York Style Pizza, and production in the United States Shoes” before Elvis Presley did?
DidYouKnow.com. revolves around making mozzarella 4. Name Patti LaBelle’s first No. 1
to accommodate the pizza industry. single.
More than 10 percent of food 5. Name the song that contains
service sales in the United States Americans love their pizza. Of the this lyric: “Late at night I’m still
involve pizza. Plenty of people are more than five billion pizzas sold listening, Don’t waste my time
ordering pizza to their homes or worldwide each year, approximately chasing sleep.”
dining at restaurants that serve this 60 percent of them are sold in the Answers:
beloved dish. U.S.
1. Johnny Rivers. The show was the
Pepperoni is the most popular pizza The outer edge of the pizza is American version of the British
topping (if you’re not counting known as the “cornicione.” Despite “Danger Man” series.
cheese). the interesting name, chances are 2. A dance that started in Florida in
someone in your household leaves 1959. It was a line dance with the
Pizza consumption tends to be that crusty goodness behind on the steps being called out. The dance
highest during sporting events. plate after enjoying a slice or two. has been seen several times,
Pizza retailers sell millions of pizzas including in “The Blues Brothers”
during the Super Bowl every year, When American World War II film and a “Roseanne” episode.
for example. soldiers returned home after eating 3. Carl Perkins, who both wrote
pizza in Italy, they brought their love and released the song in 1956.
When pizza originated in Naples, for this food with them and helped His version went to No. 1 on the
Italy, it was intended to be an option bring pizza to the masses. charts. Presley’s did not even hit
for low-income families, as it was a the Top 10.
Each year, the International Pizza 4. “If Only You Knew,” in 1983, on
Expo takes place so that those in the the R&B charts. It only hit No. 46
pizza industry can mingle and share on the Hot 100 chart.
information about this delicious 5. “Pilot of the Airwaves,” by
food. Charlie Dore in 1979. This was
the final song played in 1990 by
Radio Caroline, an unlicensed,
illegal radio station that
broadcast from the open seas. It
was named for Caroline Kennedy,
daughter of President John F.
Kennedy.