Trivia

Some nations treat drug addiction as a contagious disease. All addicts, believers say, become carriers who contaminate others. So addicts, as they’re found, are quarantined. For survival’s sake, they’re given governmentsponsored drugs. They crash in shelters forcibly segregated from the healthier population.

Q. How much gold was actually found in King Tut’s tomb?

A. Close to 2,448 pounds of it

Those who monitor details of the Old West say Wild Bill Hickok always poured his drinks with his left hand. To leave his gun hand free. It’s said he used his left a little more than his right.

Among students in university psychology classes, men greatly dominated attendance a couple of decades ago, but now the women outnumber the men by 3-to-1. Explain the why of that.

Q. Who built the first outboard motor?

A. A Frenchman named Gustave Trouve in 1881. It was a battery-powered chain-driven motor with a three-bladed propeller. Fifteen years later, Americans on Long Island adapted a gasoline engine as an outboard.