Janice Repka

Question: Why did the clown cross the road?

Answer: He was following his rubber chicken.

Question: What game is played by six clowns in
a phone booth?

Answer: Squash!

Question: Why was the elephant's skin wrinkled?

Answer: Because he couldn't find his iron.

Here's some circus trivia from the research I did for THE STUPENDOUS DODGEBALL FIASCO. Can you find the trivia that does not appear in the book?

1. To get elephant skin really soft, caretakers sometimes use furniture soap.

2. When a performer leaves the circus, it’s bad luck to say good-bye. Instead, you should say, “see you down the road.”

3. In circus lingo a cookhouse is called a pie car and cherry pie means doing extra work for extra pay.

4. A lion trainer cracks his whip to distract the lion so he will forget about attacking.

5. Clowns are very organized. In each circus, a boss clown manages the group.

6. Circus people often braid elephant tail hair into bracelets to wear during performances as good luck charms.

7. Pink Lemonade was created accidentally by a circus vendor who used a bucket of water that another performer had used to wash her red tights.

8. Before a Circus moves from one town to the next, the 24-hour advance man marks the route with a system of red arrows so nobody gets lost.

9. Circus balloon sellers are called rubbermen.

10. Elephants must hold the tails of the ones in front of them during a parade to stop them from plucking things from spectators.

To get the answer, Send an E-mail with your guess to JaniceRepka@aol.com. If you're right, I'll post your name as a trivia winner.