Trivia

Wed., March 6, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Wasps that dip into fermented juice can get too drunk to fly.

Q. What’s the most successful gambling casino in the United States?

A. Foxwoods in the Connecticut hills, on the 2,000-acre reserve of the Mashantucket Pequot tribe. About 300 tribe members share the 20-percent net from more than $800 million a year in the drop from 45,000 visitors a day.

The female baboon is the “babuina.”

According to the mythology about Michelangelo, his cook couldn’t read, so for her shopping list he drew a cartoon of wine, fruit, bread and pasta. She dutifully brought home the groceries, and at some distant later date her shopping list sold and resold to art dealers for sizable sums.

On his death bed, the German poet Heinrich Heine said this, and then no more: “God will pardon me. … It’s his job….”

Game wardens report more and more folk who live where the deer and the antelope play have taken to decorating their family dogs with bright bandannas in the hunting season.

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