Small-town celebrity birthplace of the week: Winsted, Conn. (current population about 7,000). Consumer advocate Ralph Nader was born there in 1934.
n “Two-field fame” update: Thanks to Brian Templeton of Des Moines, Wash., who reminded us about two celebrities uniquely famous in two fields. They’re novelist/Civil War general Lew Wallace, and baseball player/evangelist Billy Sunday.
According to its current standard rules, in what sport are people forbidden to play left-handed?
A) Volleyball
B) Polo
C) Lacrosse
D) Discus throwing
Wednesday’s answer: “Short tandem repeats” are the virtually unique repetitive pattern of nucleotides in a person’s DNA that makes genetic fingerprinting possible.
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