Trivia

The sun trembles. Rhythmically. The way jelly trembles. But it’s a big bowlful. So it shows one vibration only about every five minutes.

When romantic interest starts between a man and woman, one is likely to say, “I want to know more about you.” Our Love and War man says this is a popular utterance during a first dinner together. He also says an occasional literary lover at this point quotes Plato: “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” But he doesn’t recommend it at this early time.

Those who purport to know say the best computer programs are written by one or two people, not by large teams of programmers.

Q. What did the talk show host Montel Williams do in the military?

A. He was an intelligence officer, a U.S. Navy SEAL.

Q. What’s “jus primae noctis”?

A. A medieval tradition throughout Europe, it held that any manor lord had the right within his domain to sleep first with any bride on her wedding night.

Q. How much would a one-hour therapy session with Sigmund Freud have cost?

A. The equivalent of $8.10 in the early 1900s.