Trivia

Q. What do bowlers mean by a “pie alley”?

A. A lane where they tend to get higher scores. Some also call it a “cheesecake’ lane.

Chinese Proverb: “Two leaps per chasm is fatal.”

Q. What’s the native breed of cat in Australia?

A. Isn’t any. All descend from felines elsewhere.

Q. How do scientists know that the Grand Canyon was there before life on earth?

A. They’ve never found any evidence of life fossilized in soil at the bottom.

Tides at Tahiti vary less than a foot.

Q. Why do roots grow downward?

A. Gravity draws the calcium on the root caps.

Q. I know the ancient Olympics in Greece had some sort of gymnastics, but where and when did the modern version start?

A. Basedow’s School in Dessau, Germany, in 1776. Berlin gymnasts took it up in the early 1800s.

Great distances are a puzzle to most, I think. From Alaska’s Anchorage, for instance, it would take you just as long to fly to Houston as to London, and just as long to fly to London as to Tokyo.

Medical examiners know it’s carbon monoxide poisoning if the skin color is cherry red.