Trivia

Q. What proportion of university students start out in junior colleges?

A. Two out of five.

The later Bette Davis said, “We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.”

Comes a time when just about everybody learns what statistics prove: The sharper the kitchen knife, the less likely you’ll cut yourself with it.

Wasn’t all that long ago, actually, when in all of Iraq’s eight colleges of medicine the classes were taught in English.

Thomas Jefferson’s original family name traces back to Jeaffreson.

In music, the “upbeat” is weak, the “downbeat” strong. In conversation, though, what’s “upbeat” is strong, what’s “downbeat” is weak. In translating those two words from the language of music, we somehow turned them around.

Q. When did we get the first kidney dialysis machine?

A. Early in World War II. It was made from an old bathtub, spare auto parts and some sausage casings.