[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX Beamer Block “Sandwich Style”

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How can I create a block in LaTeX Beamer in "Sandwich Style", i.e., that has both a title and a footer. Ideally, the background colors could even be different. Here is an illustration (with incorrect spacing):

Image that shows how it should (roughly) look like

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With tcolorbox is easy to make a sandwich box. This one uses bicolor skin. There also exists a beamer skin which produces more 'a la beamer' boxes, but I don't know how to set a different background color for lower text part like bicolor does.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{skins}

\newtcolorbox{sandwich}[1]{bicolor, colframe=blue!75!black, colback=red!50!white, colbacklower=blue!75!black, collower=white,title=#1}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Sandwich box with tcolorbox}

\begin{sandwich}{Testing 1-2-3}
This is a text
\tcblower
Yet another text
\end{sandwich}

\end{frame}
\end{document}

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I’d say that the graphical options of beamer in combination with TikZ/PGF/pgfplotsare very powerful for creating diagrams/charts, math plots and even other graphics. Furthermore there’s no easy way to typeset equations with Keynote.

Q1 I never created an own style but I think beamer is very well documented so it should be possible to create one. You could start with adapting an existing style.

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[Tex/LaTex] Beamer block environment without title

You could use an exampleblock environment with empty title:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Warsaw}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\begin{exampleblock}{}
  {\large ``To be, or not to be: that is the question.''}
  \vskip5mm
  \hspace*\fill{\small--- William Shakespeare, Hamlet}
\end{exampleblock}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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