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Trivia

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Q. Which are the older cards or dice?

A. Dice, by far. The first playing cards - in 10th-century China - had pictures of dice on them.

Q. Carrots are native to ..?

A. Afghanistan.

It was not the evolutionist Charles Darwin but western writer Zane Grey who popularized that cliche: “survival of the fittest.”

Name researchers say “Deborah” comes from the Hebrew for “bee.”

Q. Sherlock Holmes lived at 221b Baker Street in London. What’s there now?

A. A savings and loan is at 221. But it’s a new number. Baker Street addresses ended at 85 when Conan Doyle wrote about Sherlock.

It takes about as long to turn out a baseball bat on a lathe as it takes a player to run the bases.

England’s Gertrude Jekyll changed the ways of landscape gardening. She was severely nearsighted. So she designed huge sweeping colorful effects visible for miles. Those therapists who like the term “visually challenged” say she more than most met her challenge and capitalized grandly on same.

Q. It was Sen. John Glenn who in his astronaut days ate the first meal in space. What was it?

A. Pureed applesauce.

In basketball originally there was a jump ball after every basket.