Trivia

Q. Many a desert soldier wears a cap with a cloth hanging from the back to protect the neck from the sun. What’s that cloth called?

A. A havelock.

Another way to start rose bush slips is stick the stems into white potatoes.

How light affects the positioning of growing plants is called “photonasty.” When asked to guess the meaning of the word, most people get it wrong.

Q. Who was the first law professor in the United States?

A. George Wythe. He taught John Marshall, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and Henry Clay.

Q. Those bridges across the Mississippi River - how high do they have to be?

A. Minimum clearance above the water - 55 feet.

Q. How did Leap Year - women proposing to men - get started?

A. Law, not just tradition, opened that one up. In fifth-century Ireland, first. Then in 1288, the Scottish Parliament passed a Leap Year Act. But it was not meant then as an equal rights thing. It was deemed wise by the powers as a way to even out a balance in that matter of mating.

A regulation tennis court is exactly 60 times larger than a regulation tennis table.