Comics and Activities
• In the mood for a looong vacation? Consider the planet Uranus. Its summer lasts 21 Earth years.
• It takes 700 gallons of water to make a cotton shirt. To put that in perspective, the amount of water needed to make a T-shirt is enough for one person to stay hydrated for 900 days, while the amount necessary to create a pair of jeans is equivalent to hosing down your lawn for nine hours straight. • The official color of the Golden Gate Bridge is “International Orange.” • Speaking of that delightful hue, Alexander the Great washed his hair in saffron to keep it shiny and orange. • The world’s least-common surnames include Sallow, Miracle and Relish, while extinct surnames include Bread, Spinster and Bythesea (By the sea). • Your navel contains thousands of bacteria that form an ecosystem the size of an entire rainforest. • Ever wondered about those ridges along the edges of some coins? They were the brainchild of Sir Isaac Newton, who while warden of the Royal Mint in 1696 used the reeded edges to help combat theft and counterfeiters. • After the hip-hop duo OutKast coined the phrase “shake it like a Polaroid picture” in their hit song “Hey Ya!” Polaroid released this statement: “Shaking or waving can actually damage the image.” • Just like fingerprints, no two tongue prints are alike. • • •
Thought for the Day: “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” — Plutarch © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
1. Is the book of Leviticus in the Old or New Testament
or neither? 2. About whom did Jesus say, “For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men”? Physicians, Hypocrites, Sadducees, Adamites 3. From Genesis 29, what childless woman was jealous of her sister’s fertility? Candace, Abigail, Rachel, Herodias 4. In what book do we find the story of Samson and Delilah? Judges, Numbers, Exodus, 1 John 5. From Genesis 39, whose wife tried to seduce a handsome slave? Daniel, Shimei, Potiphar, Achan 6. In Ruth 3, which farmer winnowed his barley at night? Abner, Eleazar, Boaz, Joab 
1) Old
2) Hypocrites 3) Rachel 4) Judges 5) Potiphar 6) Boaz 
1. How do you pronounce the name of the band INXS?
2. Why did Joan Jett take that name? 3. What was the original name of the band that eventually became Sugar Ray? 4. Who released an album titled “CHOBA B CCCP”? 5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “I’m gonna love you till the stars fall from the sky for you and I ... Stronger than dirt.” 
1. “In excess.” In various incarnations they were known as Doctor Dolphin, Guinness, Farris Brothers and
The Vegetables. 2. She was born Joan Marie Larkin. When her parents divorced, she took her mother’s maiden name, Jett, for musical reasons. Her first band was the Runaways. 3. The Shrinky Dinx. They had to change the name of the band after threat of a lawsuit by the toymaker who created Shrinky Dinks. 4. Paul McCartney. It means “Back in the USSR,” and the first word is pronounced Sno-va. 5. “Touch Me,” by The Doors, in 1968. The “stronger than dirt” addition at the end of the song was thought to be a reference to Ajax because the last four notes are the same in both the song and the cleanser commercial. © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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1. ADVERTISING SLOGANS: Which product was advertised as “the champagne of bottled beer”?
2. GEOGRAPHY: Which was the first designated national park in the United States? 3. BIBLE: From which book of the New Testament does the proverb “the blind leading the blind” originate? 4. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president established the Purple Heart award to military members injured or killed in battle? 5. LITERATURE: What is the title of a classic novel that its British author originally named “Strangers from Within”? 6. ANIMAL KINGDOM: Which animal’s home is called a lodge? 7. FOOD & DRINK: Which spice is described as “the Queen of Spices”? 8. MUSIC: Who wrote the libretto and music to the opera “The Flying Dutchman”? 9. HISTORY: Which country’s revolution was described in the book “Ten Days That Shook the World”? 10. ANATOMY: What is the most common blood type in humans? 
1. Miller High Life
2. Yellowstone 3. Matthew 4. George Washington 5. “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding 6. Beaver 7. Cardamom 8. Richard Wagner 9. Russia 10. O positive © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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