n A new world’s record for the longest nonstop flight by a commercial jet was set last November. A Boeing 777 flew 13,422 miles from Hong Kong to London in 22-plus hours.

n Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote over 50 Sherlock Holmes stories, but only four of them were full-length novels. Two of them are “A Study in Scarlet” and “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”

The state flag of Hawaii consists of eight stripes (representing its eight main islands), plus what else, in the upper-left corner?

A) The “union jack” flag of Great Britain

B) Four pineapples

C) A map of Hawaii

D) The Big Dipper constellation

Thursday’s answer: The 1941 film “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” was the only “straight” comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock.