Trivia

Q. Where’d the “by” in “bylaws” come from?

A. “By” was Norse for “town.”

If it doesn’t have two antennae on its head, it’s not an insect.

Q. Didn’t Robin Hood hire out as a bodyguard?

A. Incidents of cannibalism occurred in England during the famine of 1315. Fearful travelers sought safe passage. Imaginative legendmakers say Hood and associates took pay for protection.

Q. Who were the “Casket Girls” of New Orleans?

A. Young women sent there by France after 1718. To marry settlers. Each was given a casket full of dowry articles.

Q. What’s the ratio now of men to women among professional athletes?

A. 4-to-1.

Before Columbus showed up, scholars say, no animal native to the Western Hemisphere ever pulled a plow, carried a rider or supplied milk to people.

It has been 600 years since speakers of English pronounced the silent “b” at the end of such words as tomb, dumb and climb.

Lips of a fly’s mouth are porous. Like little sponges. They soak up whatever’s soak-uppable.