Andy Halperin of Walnut Creek, Calif., notes that 94549, the zip code of the nearby city of Lafayette, is a palindrome (reads the same forward and backward) and asks if there are any others. Quite a few, we discovered. They run the gamut numerically and geographically, from 01510 (Clinton, Mass.) to 98589 (Tenino, Wash.).

Many humorous quotes can be found on the subject of committees. Milton Berle called a committee “a group that keeps minutes but loses hours,” for example. Who is credited with the quote, “A committee is an animal with four back legs”?

A) Walter Chrysler

B) John le Carre

C) Joan Rivers

D) Abraham Lincoln

Tuesday’s answer: The only day of the week named for a Roman god is Saturday, named for Saturn.