Trivia

Q. In what sport are the oldest champions?

A. Billiards. Average age at last report: 35.6 years.

Ellen Burstyn, that actress of excellence, started out as Edna Rae Gillooly.

Q. In Scrabble, what word is worth 164 points?

A. “Quartzy,” I’m told. Across a triple-word-score with the “z” on a double-letter score square.

A businesswoman named Colleen C. Barrett carefully looked over the current patterns in American industry and said, “We need fewer architects and more bricklayers.”

Those fish of the coelacanth variety have tough skin - exceedingly tough. Bicyclists along Africa’s east coast patch their inner tubes with it.

Disease conditions caused by doctors - wrong prescriptions, diets, treatments - are called “iatrogenic.”