What soccer player topped Forbes magazine in 2016 as the world’s highest paid athlete?

In 2016, Portugal won the UEFA European soccer championship; superstar player Cristiano Ronaldo topped the Forbes magazine list of the world’s highest paid athletes; and the airport in his hometown of Funchal on the island of Madeira was renamed in his honor. With that, Ronaldo joined a short list of athletes with namesake airports: soccer star George Best in Belfast, Northern Ireland; ancient Olympic boxer Diagoras on the Greek island of Rhodes; and great American golfer Arnold Palmer in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

Trivia question: Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is named for Albert Bond Lambert, an aviation pioneer with what other distinction? A) Major League Baseball player

B) Olympic athlete C) Performed the first successful kidney transplant

D) U.S. secretary of state

The tall, pointed headdress we associate with fairytale princesses is called a hennin. They were all the rage in the mid15th century especially in France, where fashionable ladies wore hennins threefeet tall with a veil attached to the tip. A woman could fold the veil under one arm or let it float behind her like angel wings when she walked. To ac- centuate the look, she’d tuck as much of her hair as she could inside the hennin then shave off stray strands from her forehead and temples.

Rabies, swine flu and avian flu are diseases transmitted from animals to humans, often with fatal consequences. But sometimes the transmission goes the other way. Animals in zoos — especially primates — have died from influenza and other viruses they picked up from humans. There’s even some evidence that humans with the H1N1 “swine flu” virus passed that virus back to healthy pig population and made them sick, too.

Before he developed the telegraph and the code that bears his name, Samuel F.B. Morse (the F.B. stands for Finley Breese) was an accomplished painter who trained at the Royal Academy of Art in London. His “Gallery of the Louvre” depicts all of that museum’s great works — including Mona Lisa — hung in a single room. His portrait of John Adams — for which he was paid a paltry $25 in 1816 — is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. His portrait of James Monroe hangs in the Blue Room of the White House.

“Candy Land” was devised by Eleanor Abbott of San Diego in the 1940s, while she was recuperat- ing from polio. Hard as it was for her to be confined to a hospital ward as an adult, she knew it was even harder for the children there with her. So she invented a board game that could be played to pass the time. The rules were simple enough for 3-year-olds — no reading required. Abbott pitched the game to Milton Bradley, which brought out its first edition of “Candy Land” in 1949.

The first designated military camouflage unit in modern history was formed in the French army in 1915 under the direction of a painter named LucienVictor Guirand de Scevola. Its main objective was to disguise ground artillery so it wouldn’t be spotted and destroyed by aerial bombers in World War I. By 1918, the French military camouflage section employed 3,000 officers and troops at the front, plus a few hundred German prisoners of war, and some 10,000 civilian women “camoufleurs” at a studio in Paris.

Trivia answer: Albert Bond Lambert won a silver medal in golf at the 1904Summer Olympics in St. Louis.

TRIVIA FANS: Leslie Elman is the author of “Weird But True: 200 Astounding, Outrageous and Totally Off the Wall Facts.” Contact her at triviabitsleslie@gmail.com.

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