Trivia

Q. Do your fingernails ever stop growing while you’re alive? A. Almost, sometimes, when you get seriously sick.

Your house is worth what it’s worth plus the price of your car, if it has an attached garage with automatic doors. Or so contend some real estate experts. Because, they say, car thieves cruise with shopping lists, spot listed makes in driveways and on the street, then come back after hours. A car behind a closed garage door does not make their lists.

Q. Where did the Old West personality, J.H. “Doc” Holliday, wind up practicing dentistry?

A. Room 24, Dodge House, Dodge City, Kan., if the historical footnotes have it right. He also practiced on and off in Dallas and wherever else in his vicinity a toothache turned up.

Q. Did dinosaurs sit on their eggs?

A. Not on purpose. Theorists think they covered those eggs with rotting vegetation to generate heat.

Q. Where was the supposed setting of “The Dick Van Dyke Show”?

A. New Rochelle, N.Y.

Q. How many litters can a female house mouse have in a year?

A. Up to 10.