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Here’s the latest quiz that Kara and I penned for mentalfloss.com: a Monopoly-themed match-up called Chance & Community Chest. Enjoy!

To get in the spirit of the upcoming NFL season, Kara and I put together a type-your-answer-in quiz for mentalfloss.com, focusing on NFL teams from the last 50 years (like The L.A. Raiders) that are no longer part of the league.

In our most recent quiz offering for mentalfloss.com, we offer you the names of several NFL teams, which you’ll try to indicate by the division in which those teams play. Try Dividing the NFL!

Our current mentalfloss.com quiz is a challenging one: You have 10 minutes to name the 20 largest lakes in the United States. Can you traverse our Land o’ Lakes?

Our Complete Idiot’s Guide to Fun FAQs book has been released in a new AMI Digest Version. This abbreviated edition offers nearly 100 pages of trivia for the bargain price of $2.98. No word yet on when and where the book will be available, but we’ll let you know as soon as we find out.

Love to my parents, John (Jay) and Dorothy (Dot) Wood of Danielsville, Georgia, who will celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary on September 6. Congratulations!

Kara’s parents, George and Fran Kovalchik, will also hit the half-century-married mark next month.

That doesn’t happen very much any longer, does it?

Thanks to those of you who wrote, called, or emailed to let us know that you read the kind article that Julie Hinds wrote about us in The Detroit Free Press or one of the other media sources that ran the interview.

Some of you had little to say other than to point out that we’re overweight (thanks for this; we were under the mistaken impression that all of the mirrors in our home were concave). For some reason, these people had nothing better to do.

On a brighter note, scores of people contacted us to express that the story inspired them with some feel-good vibrations. Others were pleased for us that we’ve managed to attain both personal and professional success as a husband-and-wife team. Thank you; we worked very hard to get where we are.

sandy@pigpencil.com

I’m not certain why, but this is interesting.

Kara and I are always on the lookout for new places and ways to distribute our work. (Yes, we do more than just trivia. In fact, we have several ideas just waiting to be unleashed on an unsuspecting public.) Feel free to contact us at info@pigpencil.com.

More than a million visitors – update: 1.8 million as of 7/09 – have taken our Quarter Backs Quiz over at mentalfloss.com. If you’re one of them, thank you! If not… what are you waiting for? You’ll try to identify the states represented by the images on the backs of 20 different coins in the “state quarter” series issued by the U.S. Mint.

We all but guarantee that you won’t ace it!