Weird Wide Web: Visit www.thepointless.com/?c=dot and you'll have the opportunity to view your choice of a large red dot or a large green dot, that you'll discover (as the site's proprietor proudly points out) "doesn't do anything when you click on it." We're not counting the reminders you get if you do try clicking, that clicking on it doesn't do anything.

Would you be surprised to learn that Grace Kelly wasn't the first American to become Princess of Monaco? We were. The New Orleans-born, socially prominent Alice Heine (grandniece of German poet Heinrich Heine) was the second wife of Monaco's Prince Albert I, who was the great-grandfather of Grace's husband, Prince Rainier III. Alice and Albert married in 1889.

According to "Q," the autobiography of music-industry hyphenate Quincy Jones, the Kennedy Center honoree admitted that he has never learned how to:
A) Read music
B) Swim
C) Drive a car
D) Dance

Previous answer: Mrs. Wisk is the fiancee of Mr. Quale in the Dickens novel "Bleak House."

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