Thanks to all who wrote to explain how Toronto’s airport code got to be YYZ. Most Canadian airport codes start with Y. That, plus Y and Z, was the Morse code signal transmitted by the airport’s radio beacon. The Canadian rock group Rush recorded the 1981 instrumental tune “YYZ,” whose intro repeatedly “taps out” Y-Y-Z in Morse code.

Thirty years before his World War II fame, future George Patton competed in the pentathlon as a member of the 1912 U.S. Olympic team, and finished in fifth place. In which of the five pentathlon events did Patton finish in the lowest position?

A) Shooting

B) Running

C) Fencing

D) Swimming

Wednesday’s answer: Gorillas, as well as many other non-human primate species, typically take an afternoon nap.