Trivia

Q. What’s the “Law of Life’s Highway”?

A. “If everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.” This law is one of a set. Goes with Shedenhelm’s Law: “All trails have more uphill slopes than downhill slopes.” And Gold’s Law: “If the shoe fits, it’s ugly.”

The catbird is so called because it meows. Or seems to.

December is the month for nuts. You may toy with this one as you wish, but I’m talking about pecans, cashews, walnuts, that sort. It’s during the holidays when Americans eat 40 percent of the national annual total.

Q. Did your Love and War man say the wife is usually twice as smart as the husband?

A. Not at all. What the cited university study reported was: When a husband and wife are of greatly unequal intelligence - one being a good deal smarter than the other - it occurs twice as often that the wife is the partner with the higher IQ.

Each of 80 percent of the U.S. 50-year-olds has at least one living parent. That’s a 1997 figure. The 1960 figure was 67 percent. The 1940 figure was only 52 percent. Indeed, people are living longer.