Trivia

A fourth of Los Angeles’ land is for cars.

Q. How many zeroes are on a roulette wheel?

A. Two in the United States, one in Europe. You can’t bet on a zero.

When the ball stops on 0 or 00, the house always wins.

Numerous old Romans thought birds didn’t start to mate every year until St. Valentine’s day.

Winemaking once pretty much belonged to the church. But the cork let makers age wine in small quantities, and ship it. Everybody could get into wine, and did. One historian says nothing more imposing than the little cork cost the church its exclusive franchise.

That word “business” comes from Anglo-Saxon syllables of similar sound meaning “active,” “worry” or “fatigue.” Quite so, all of the above.

If you had to give up one of the customary three meals a day, which one would you skip? Pollsters put that query to a sizable sampling of citizens. Youngsters said breakfast. Oldsters said supper.

Q. In their migrations north and south, how fast do the gray whales go?

A. Maybe 75 miles a day.

The opposite of “distress” is “eustress.”