10. ASTRONOMY: In our solar system,

• Keep a plastic garbage bag in your made-up stuff to throw off all the people

• Keep a plastic garbage bag in your

which planet is between Jupiter

glove box or somewhere in your car. on the Internet who are so anxious

glove box or somewhere in your car.

and Uranus?

You can poke arm and neck holes for a to get the material. I had no idea what

You can poke arm and neck holes for a

Answers rain poncho, cover a stuck or broken it meant until I got there and they told

rain poncho, cover a stuck or broken

window to keep rain out or use it to

1. Carol Channing me I’m Jacob. And then it dawned on

window to keep rain out or use it to

corral all your things if you ever get

2. A cold me what a big deal it was.”

corral all your things if you ever get

into an accident and need to have your

3. A flashlight

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car towed.

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car towed.

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5. “Apollo 13”

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• Have a squeaky floorboard? Try

sweeping some talc or baby powder

6. Chicago

her at letters@cindyelavsky.com. For

sweeping some talc or baby powder

into the space between the boards. It

7. Thomas Edison

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into the space between the boards. It

can serve as a lubricant, and oftentimes

8. Mercury

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can serve as a lubricant, and oftentimes

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will quiet the squeak.

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with studying and learning in young

© 2010 King Features Synd., Inc. with studying and learning in young

children. You can cover up part of a children. You can cover up part of a

flash card, making them easy for a flash card, making them easy for a

child to practice on his own. You can child to practice on his own. You can

use flags to cover up words in a story, use flags to cover up words in a story,

then have the child write a new story then have the child write a new story

by writing a new word on the flag. by writing a new word on the flag.

Kids can practice math or spelling on Kids can practice math or spelling on

the go. There are hundreds of uses for the go. There are hundreds of uses for

in the Old or these lovely paper tools.” — G.A. in these lovely paper tools.” — G.A. in

New York New York

did the dying

• “I keep a fun toy set in the trunk of

• “I keep a fun toy set in the trunk of

the car. It’s small enough to bring with the car. It’s small enough to bring with

me on visits to friends without children

before it closed in June 1971? the car. It’s small enough to bring with

6. Who had a hit with “It’s Still Rock me on visits to friends without children

and Roll to Me”? and interesting enough to keep

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an hour. It’s only for when I take my

1. Jewel Kilcher, professionally

children to visit a friend and need to

known by her first name. The song

have some adult time. The kids look

came from her debut album, “Pieces

forward to being able to play with the

of You.”

toy, and it doesn’t get old because they

2. Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders,

see it only occasionally.” — C.L. in

in 1965.

Arizona

3. Vangelis, born Evangelos

• When having fresh corn on the cob:

Odysseas Papathanassiou, also wrote

“Trim each ear of corn on both ends,

the scores for “1492: Conquest of Paradise”

and leave the husk on the corn. Boil it

and “Blade Runner.”

or microwave it the amount of time

4. Yes, but only one: “Go Away Little

you like. When it’s done, the husk and

Girl” in 1971.

silk will come off with no problem.”

5. The Allman Brothers Band. Lead

— P.C. of Florida and Maryland (He

guitarist Duane Allman was killed

and his wife of 63 years are snowbirds!)

four months later in a motorcycle

crash in Macon, Ga.