Trivia

Thu., Dec. 12, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Report is that the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds.

Am advised the characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life.”

Q. How much food did Charles Lindbergh take with him on his famous transatlantic flight?

A. Four sandwiches.

If “underground” isn’t the only word in English that begins and ends with “und,” name another.

Almost everybody who buys a newspaper out of a coin rack lifts the first paper to take the second in the stack. Why?

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