Trivia

Jobfinders say it’s almost impossible to name a top corporate chief executive officer who has not been fired from some position at least once.

Q. Beavers mate for life, you said. Who’s boss?

A. They devote virtually all their time to fixing up their home. She is.

In France, a carved golden horse’s head identifies each of about 1,000 shops where you can buy horsemeat. Or somebody can.

One of the smallest organizations in the AFL-CIO is the International Association of Marble, Slate and Stone Polishers, Rubbers and Sawyers, Tile and Marble Setters Helpers and Terrazzo Helpers Union.

Q. Which of these got the Nobel Prize for Literature? Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.G. Wells, Thomas Hardy and Henry James?

A. All were nominated. None won.

In a deck of 52 cards are “ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king. “… Note, in that alphabetical string are 52 letters, too.

A kite rises against the wind, not with it. That is thought noteworthy by some counselors.