Trivia

Q. Which big city gets the most snow?

A. Can only tell you Quebec’s Montreal reportedly shovels the most tonnage. Costs $50 million a year to move it.

Q. Was the first name of Gilligan on Gilligan’s Island ever mentioned?

A. You mean Willy? Only once - on the never-aired pilot. Also mentioned only once was the skipper’s full name: Jonas Grumby.

Not everybody knows that ragtime genius Scott Joplin also wrote a ballet and two operas.

Pollsters every year or so ask you and me how much money a year we’d each need to fulfill our dreams. Current median reply: $102,000.

Am told the coffeehouse critics have added greatly to their lists of dumb designations for the not-too-swift. Now an “an intellect rivaled only by garden tools” is said to be “a few fries short of a Happy Meal.” With a “kinked slinky.” Whose “cheese has slid off the cracker.” To be classified as “All foam, no beer.”

If the wind gets stronger than 10 mph, cancel your hot-air balloon flight, advises the Federal Aviation Administration.