Trivia

Fri., Nov. 1, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Consider the young men aged 11 to 20 now imprisoned for homicide. Police statisticians report that 63 percent of them were convicted of killing the men who battered their mothers.

The goliath beetle, the world’s weightiest bug, can peel a banana.

Q. Who kicked the longest football punt on record?

A. Steve O’Neal of the New York Jets. At Denver in 1969, he sent one from his one-yard line to Denver’s one-yard line - 98 yards. An official record, still.

Q. Who’s been primarily responsible for the behavior of the children - the father or the mother?

A. Whoever’s home, historically. In colonial America, it was the father, mostly on the farm. When the Industrial Revolution sent him to town, it was the mother, usually still at the house. When World War II took her out of the house. … This can turn into a sociology sermon. Move on.

Q. All species of vertebrates, except one, have red blood cells to carry oxygen. Which one?

A. The ice fish of Antarctica. If it had such cells, its blood would freeze.

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