Trivia

Q. What are the oldest U.S. mountains?

A. South Dakota’s Black Hills.

Moscow police reports suggest most of Russia’s female lawbreakers have this in common: “drunken husbands.”

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Q. Didn’t the longtime Western star Tex Ritter die in jail?

A. Explain that. When felled by a heart attack, John Ritter’s dad was trying to arrange bail for a band member in Nashville’s metro jail.

Client writes: “This used to be a man’s world until Eve showed up.”

Longest of all anagrams are said to be hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones. But who can prove it?

A legendary matador named Joe Gonzales was gored by 50 bulls before one finally killed him. Why Gonzales chose to continue in that line of work is most mysterious. Some might have switched careers after goring No. 49. Or No. 1.

If you’re not a player of string instruments, maybe you don’t know a violinist never grips the bow so the fingertips touch the horsehair.