For want of a homonym? American Heritage magazine calls Elihu Yale the “most overrated philanthropist.” The magazine suggests that the early contributions to Yale of one Jeremiah Dummer were much more substantial than Mr. Yale’s, but the school might have thought “Dummer College” wasn’t an appropriate name for itself.

n Clever Autobiography Titles: Thanks to the senders of these: flamboyant baseball umpire Ron Luciano’s “The Umpire Strikes Back” (Ed Newbegin, Concord, Calif.), Jay Leno’s “Taking It on the Chin” (Paul Meszaros, Pleasanton, Calif.), and Gene Simmons, rock guitarist for the heavy-makeup group Kiss, wrote “Kiss and Make-Up” (Deborah Pember-LaVoie, Concord, Calif.).

Eighteenth-century potter Josiah Wedgwood founded the company that, as part of Waterford Wedgwood, is still manufacturing chinaware today. Josiah’s daughter was the mother of a man who became world famous in another field. Josiah Wedgwood’s most famous grandson was:

A) Winston Churchill

B) Charles Darwin

C) David Livingstone

D) Thomas Edison

Tuesday’s answer: Six sextillion (6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000), the highest numbered entry in the newly published “15,003 Answers: The Ultimate Trivia Encyclopedia,” represents the estimated weight of the Earth in metric tons.