L.M. Boyd Trivia

“ Remarkable how your body turns food into energy. With that efficiency, according to the experts, if you were a car, you’d get 900 miles to the gallon.

“ Most engaged couples who break up their romances do so sometime between 9 p.m. and midnight.

“ Q. I know more English language words start with “S” than with any other letter. But what letters come next?

A. “C” then “P.”

“ In the minds of most Americans, the heroic warriors of old Japan were the Samurai swordsmen. Few realize Japan once was the world’s foremost maker of guns. With the greatest gunners. But when Japan rejected Western influence in the 18th century, it also rejected gunpowder weapons, thus utterly empowering again the feudal Samurai, an elite which at its peak represented about 5 percent of the population.

“ Medicine men of old had one distinct advantage over modern doctors. They routinely could threaten to inflict disease as well as cure it. Incidentally, medicine men specialized, too. There were, for instance, snake-bite healers sought out for no other ailment.

“ Those who purport to know say any shampoo that contains coconut oil will kill lice. Eventually.

“ The whale, I’ve read, has no sense of smell.