How many children did the woman who created Mother’s Day have?
A: None
Anna Jarvis never married and never had children. In 1905, she organized the first Mother’s Day service at the church where her mom had been a Sunday school teacher. Towards the end of her life, Anna said she wished she’d never started the day because it became so commercialized.
What percentage of women say their Mom is their favourite parent?
A: 40
According to a Women’s Health magazine survey about women and their moms.
24% say they are “Daddy’s girls.” Nearly half of women say their mom is their best friend and the average woman talks to her mom once a week.
Kate Black from Classic Video joins us Tuesday mornings at 8:35 with the word on this week’s new home movie releases:
Underworld: Awakening is the fourth in this sci-fi horror series featuring Kate Beckinsale as the slick, sultry vampire Selene. The film opens with a brief synopsis of the previous three films, giving a brief history into the world of vampires and Lycans. Awakening picks up fifteen years after Evolution, when humans believe they have eradicated most of the vampire and Lycan clans from Earth. A few remaining breeds have moved underground or have been captured and frozen for scientific purposes. The action begins when Selene awakens from her cryogenic sleep, and seeks to uncover the cause of the human war against her species that resulted in the death of her Lycan lover and the creation of her manufactured offspring. 
Rating: At less than 90 minutes, this gory, graphic, campy thriller is short on story but loaded with wicked special effects. Meant for 3D viewing, this campy horror is perfect fodder for the teenage gamer.
The Vow is director Michael Sucsy’s inspirational romantic drama starring Channing Tatum, Rachel McAdams, Sam Neill, and Jessica Lange. Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of a newlywed couple whose life is changed forever after a car accident leaves the wife, McAdams, suffering brain trauma and memory loss. Tatum as the husband, vows to prove his love for her and win her back while trying to rekindle her memories of their love. The couple’s struggle is complicated by meddling family, memories of an ex-fiancé, and rediscovery of past hurts.
Rating: While this melodrama relies on a credible and affecting story, unfortunately, the delivery is choppy and forced. McAdams’ acting is polished and believable and Tatum’s cute attempts at courtship are admirable, but he’s not much more than eye candy. Not a bad pick as a weekend date night flick.
The record number of these for a man is 824. What?
A: Living descendants
At the time of his death in October 1992, Samuel S. Mast, aged 96, of Fryburg, Pennsylvania, had 824 living descendants – 11 children, 97 grandchildren, 634 great-grandchildren and 82 great-great-grandchildren.
This TV personality will clap their hands more than 700 times a week. Who is it?
A: Vanna White
According to her bio on wheeloffortune.com, Vanna will clap her hands more than 28,000 times in a year. She was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as television’s most frequent clapper in 1992.
The winner of Saturday’s Kentucky Derby gets 554 of these. What?
A: Roses
The tradition of roses at the Kentucky Derby dates back to 1883 and the winning horse has been draped with a garland of roses since at least 1896. The garland has 554 roses.
Nearly 15% of people worldwide believe this will happen in their lifetime. What?
A: The end of the world
Ipsos Reid surveyed more than 16,000 people in 21 countries and found 14% strongly or somewhat agreed that the world would come to an end in their lifetime.
9% of Canadians say the world will end this year (15th of the 21 countries surveyed).
