Comics and Activities
• Are you one of those folks who paces while talking on the phone? Psychologists believe this may be a kind of coping mechanism to make up for lack of body language and nonverbal cues that normally accompany conversation.
• A chef traditionally wears white because the chef of the first prime minister of France (1815) believed it was the most hygienic of all colors. • The shape of the Coca-Cola bottle is patterned after a cacao seed pod. • In 1995, Chris "Fenderman" Black got hitched to his Fender Stratocaster guitar that he'd purchased 35 years earlier, after his real wife quipped that he spent so much time with it, he should marry it. • Early Hoover vacuum cleaners were hard to sell because potential customers refused to believe they could have that much dirt in their carpets. • Plane exhaust kills more people than plane crashes. Approximately 10,000 people die annually from toxic airplane pollutants. • Argentine goalkeeper Sergio Goycochea would crouch down and covertly urinate on the field before every penalty shootout for good luck. He started the ritual during the 1990 World Cup quarterfinals and continued it for the rest of his career. • "Hurkle-durkle" is an old Scottish word meaning to lie in bed after it's time to get up and get going. • A New Jersey man bought a $5 bottle of orange juice, which his wife deemed too expensive and sent him back to return. He bought two Powerball lottery tickets with the refund and ended up winning the jackpot worth $315.3 million. • • •
Thought for the Day: "I think that you have to believe in your destiny, that you will succeed; you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours — so enjoy the view." — Michael York © 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
1. Is the book of Joppa in the Old or New Testament or neither?
2. What businesswoman from Thyatira opened her home to Paul and saints after her conversion? Rachel, Keturah, Lydia, Shiphrah 3. Jesus said, “For where your treasure is, there will your ___ be also”? Love, Heart, Faith, Friends 4. From 2 Samuel 18, whose hair became tangled in a terebinth tree? Samson, Herod, Absalom, Joab 5. On the outskirts of what city did Jesus meet Zacchaeus? Smyrna, Tarsus, Jericho, Antioch 6. From 2 Samuel 14, what was the name of Absalom’s daughter? Ruth, Tamar, Miriam, Sarah 
1) Neither
2) Lydia 3) Heart (Matthew 6:21, Luke 12:34) 4) Absalom 5) Jericho 6) Tamar © 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
1. Bonnie Tyler released “It’s A Heartache” in 1977. Name the other two female artists who released cover versions the following year.
2. Which Scottish band released “Love Hurts”? 3. Who wrote and released “Clap for the Wolfman”? 4. Which artist released “Material Girl”? 5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “It was so easy livin’ day by day, Out of touch with the rhythm and blues, But now I need a little give and take.” 
1. Juice Newton and Ronnie Spector.
2. Nazareth, in 1975. It was first released in 1960 by the Everly Brothers as an album track, never a single. The song has been covered by many, including Roy Orbison, Jennifer Warnes and Jim Capaldi from Traffic. 3. The Guess Who, in 1974. The song was about Wolfman Jack, the famous DJ. He’s heard speaking on the recording. 4. Madonna, in 1984. 5. “New York State of Mind,” by Billy Joel in 1976. The song was never released as a single but became a favorite anyway, one that Joel played at benefit concerts all around New York after 9/11. He wrote the song after moving to the East Coast from Los Angeles. © 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
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1. MOVIES: How long was the shortest Academy
Awards ceremony? 2. TELEVISION: Which U.S. state was the setting for the 1980s “Newhart” TV sitcom? 3. MEDICAL: What is a common name for the condition known medically as ankylosis? 4. GEOGRAPHY: Which European nation colonized Haiti? 5. HISTORY: What was the Monroe Doctrine, a policy stated by President James Monroe in 1823? 6. ADVERTISING: Horatio Magellan Crunch is the mascot for which cereal brand? 7. FOOD & DRINK: What is bannock? 8. BIBLE: What is he Pentateuch? 9. SCIENCE: How do mosses reproduce? 10. INVENTIONS: When did the first patented drive-in movie theater open? 
1. The first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 lasted 15 minutes.
2. Vermont 3. Stiff joint 4. France 5. The U.S. opposed further European colonization of the Americas, but wouldn’t interfere with existing colonies or meddle in the affairs of European countries. 6. Cap’n Crunch 7. Flat, quick bread of Scottish origin 8. The first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy 9. Spores 10. 1933 in Camden, New Jersey © 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
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