Welcome to March... spring is just around the corner! To celebrate, the new Weekend Genius Challenge turns musical. Your task is simple: Name a song with a title 10 letters long or longer that uses only ONE of the five vowels. It could be an A, an E, an I, an O, even a U if you're daring. (Forget Y for today; it's only a vowel wannabe.) A sample? There are plenty... "Helter Skelter" is a good one (13 letters, and "E" is the only vowel) as is "Knock on Wood" (12 letters, and "O" is the only vowel). We... READ ON

With Leap Day coming up next Friday, I began to search my trivia mind for names of people that had been born on February 29. I recall a source saying Superman was born on that date, along with John Tesh. Oh, and "Froggy" from the Our Gang movie shorts. So I began to think about other unusual birthdates, and even examined my own. I realized that if I'd been born a week later, mine would be 4/5/67, which would've been cool because of the sequential... READ ON

Ah, presidential politics. I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon being president, but the commander-in-chief who probably had the most profound impact on my life was Ronald Reagan. Not politically, but just because he was first elected my freshman year in high school, and then re-elected during my freshman year of college. There's a trivia tidbit about Reagan that I've been waiting to divulge somewhere, and if I wait until after this year's election, it will be too late. So here goes. Complete this... READ ON

Ah, remember in your early teens when you were head-over-heels gaga over someone? When you were in "LUV"? Not love, but luv? Well, with Valentine's Day right around the corner, we thought we'd share the luv by keeping this edition of the WGC short and (definitely) sweet. How easy is it to win a T-shirt? This easy: All we ask you to do is comment with a word - a single word - that includes the letter sequence "LUV". And if your word matches the one we've already selected, you'll win the mental_floss... READ ON