Oscar spouse near misses: Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh were both Oscar-nominated for 1939 films, but they weren't married until a few months after the awards ceremony. Two pairs were nominated a year or two apart: Streisand/Gould (1968-69) and Kidman/Cruise (2001, 1999). (Thanks to Roz Rogoff of Martinez, Calif.) Related trivia in a future column.

Listening to an NPR broadcast recently, we were surprised to learn that French composer Camille Saint-Saens was quite a polymath. A small sampling of his multifarious intellectual interests: he wrote poetry, studied astronomy, and wrote scholarly articles on Roman theater decoration.

A member of the French Astronomical Society, he often planned concerts to occur during solar eclipses.

The youngest person ever to race at the Indianapolis 500 is the grandson of a Hall of Famer in:
A) Motorsports
B) Football
C) Baseball
D) Aviation

Previous answer: The highest wind ever measured on the Earth's surface was 231 miles per hour, at New Hampshire's Mount Washington on April 12, 1934.

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