Period piece: Take a good look at the mastheads on Page One of The Wall Street Journal and The Nation, and you’ll see a period at the end of each of their names. Why the dots? We have no idea. If you know something about it, please let us know.

According to the 2007 book “Lightning: Physics and Effects”, about how many thunderstorms occur each day worldwide?

A) 400

B) 4,000

C) 44,000

D) 4,400,000

Answer Monday.

Thursday’s answer: Marvin Hamlisch, who would win three 1974 Academy Awards, composed the original score for Woody Allen’s 1969 film “Take the Money and Run.”


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