Trivia

Q. Which of our national parks has the most kinds of birds?

A. Big Bend in Texas. At least 350 species. It’s in the migration routes.

“Give me a break” started out as pool-hall vernacular.

Military computer runs indicate the favorite color of Army personnel is navy blue.

In the Pacific is an island called Tench. Once, it was abhorrently irreligious there to let anyone die of old age. So locals, when they hit 40, were taken out to sea and drowned. In 1931, the missionaries, those meddlers, ended it.

Q. What are the three most expensive foods?

A. Truffles, caviar and … saffron at $2,000-plus a pound.

Q. To what age do clams live?

A. To 150 years, at least.

In “The Wizard of Oz,” you may recall, a tornado touched down in Kansas. Other times that happened there include June 22, 1969, the day Judy Garland died.

Q. I turn on the cold water when I run the sink’s garbage grinder - that much I know. But why should the water be cold?

A. To congeal the grease so it floats out with the water.

Those people who study the moon - such folk there be - are called selenologists.