The correct answer to the October 2024 Trivia Challenge is
Q: Local 79 National Biscuit members (Nabisco) in Tampa did one of the following starting in 1943?
A. Package all cookies with camouflage boxes that will be consumed by US soldiers overseas.
B. 100% of Local 79 National Biscuit members buy US war bonds to support the war efforts.
C. National Biscuit members make most of their local deliveries in Tampa by horse-drawn wagons because gasoline has been severely rationed due to WWII.
D. National Biscuit members supply the Canine Corp with dog biscuits.
October\Trivia Challenge winners:
1st Place Winner (Phil Huber) $50 Gift Card
2nd Place Winner (Debra Mathews) $25 Gift Card
Do you know the answer to the November 2024 Trivia Challenge?
Q: One of the odd products that Local 79 freight drivers hauled in the late 1930s and early 1940s was canned rattlesnake meat. What was the one main problem that kept the company from keeping up with demand?
A. Rattlesnakes were harvested in such great numbers that they actually became scarce in Hillsborough County and the Tampa Bay area.
B. Local 79 discouraged its members freight companies from hauling the canned product as live snakes were kept on the property and two of our members were bitten.
C. Those that caught the snakes were drafted into the US armed forces and could no longer go out and catch the snakes.
D. The company went out of business when the owner died of a rattle snake bite.
(Please remember: Only ONE submission per person, Per Month please. Any additional entry will be discarded)
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