Trivia

Those who travel to exotic places are told that an estimated 10 million land mines still litter Afghanistan’s countryside.

Q. Why is the sort of timepiece you carry in your pocket or wear on your wrist called a “watch”?

A. Because the first to use them were the men who kept the night watch, the “all’s well” criers.

Q. What’s the “Women’s Ivy League”?

A. These schools: Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley.

Latter-day cigar smokers quote the late Malcolm S. Forbes Sr.: “A cigar that won’t stay lit usually doesn’t deserve to be.”

Yes, a grizzly bear can outrun a racehorse.

It’s a matter of record that oil-rich Arabs from Kuwait once offered to buy the Texas A&M University band.

“My idea of heaven,” said Oprah Winfrey, “is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.”

In the historical footnotes it’s written that England’s Richard II upon occasion sat on his throne at length, glancing this way, that way, just to watch his courtiers kneel when he looked at them. I had a teacher once who. … Never mind.