Trivia

The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain.

Q. What’s the most densely populated city in the United States?

A. Union City, N.J., with about 42,000 people per square mile.

That great snake known as the anaconda seizes its prey with its teeth, then wraps its coils around said victim and slowly tightens them. You can break the snake’s grip by squeezing hard at the back of its head at the base of the jaws. This should work. If it doesn’t, call for detailed instructions.

Q. The “buck” in that saying, “The buck stops here,” originally alluded to a marker moved around the poker tabletop to indicate whose turn it was to deal. That much I know. What was the first marker?

A. A hunting knife with a buckhorn handle.

Do you sleep with a stuffed animal? Get serious, I’m talking about a teddy bear or like that. When pollsters put the query to a sizable sampling of grown-ups, 20 percent of the women said yes, as did 5 percent of the men. Our Love and War man approves of all such fill-the-need-for-nurturing tokens short of inflated lifesize manikins.

In ancient Egypt, men, too, wore mascara.