TRIVIA - MÉLANGE

1. Author Amy Tan’s bestselling novel “The Joy Luck Club” uses this game, now popular in senior centers and casinos, as the plot device that connects a group of Chinese immigrants.

2. Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays and 14other players are the only ones to hit this many homeruns in one game. The record has never been surpassed.

3. Besides overall greatness, player Sandy Kofax is also remembered also for his un-toiled observance of this Jewish holy day.

4. Growing Pains star Tracy Gold missed numerous episodes due to this illness, which affects women 10-times more often than men.

5. Beloved poet Shel Silverstein once won a Grammy for writing this song about one child’s confusing identity, and it became one of Johnny Cash’s biggest hits.

6. In 1906, this literary hero of mixed background was introduced in Outing magazine, a North American publication dedicated to a variety of sporting activities, such as sled racing.

7. As the crime fighting alter ego of wealthy young publisher Britt Reid, this masked vigilante followed a beeline towards justice when he was debuted in an eponymous 1930s radio program.