Trivia

Q. Man’s first use of fire was cooking, right?

A. Not quite right, sir. Nor was cooking man’s second use of fire. Heat was first, theorists believe. Then came the discovery that fire scared off wild animals - its second use.

Question arises as to how many women, married to unfaithful husbands, are aware of the philandering. Researchers think they know. Sixty-five percent of such wives, they say, find out about the fence-jumping. Reversed, 64 percent of the husbands of unfaithful wives are thought to be aware of the infidelities.

Q. Who first said the earth revolves around the sun?

A. The Greek astronomer Aristarchus in the 200s B.C. It was he, too, who first isolated the eight parts of speech.

Q. What’s the longest stretch of river without a bridge?

A. The lower 1,100 miles of the Yukon was so credited at last report.

In ancient Greece, the olympiad was not the time of the games but the period of time between the games. An olympiad was four years even as a decade now is 10 years.

Report is that Paris has lost 30,000 cafes in the past 10 years.