Words of the week: "megashed" and "foodshed." The former, believed to have been coined very recently in the U.K., is a very large distribution center or warehouse. Derived from "watershed," a foodshed is the area from which a community gets its food supply. According to foodroutes.org, the modern U.S. foodshed is the entire world, since so much of what reaches our dinner table is imported from distant lands.

Jon Morrison of Richmond, Calif., asks us to confirm what's the easternmost state in the U.S. One might think the obvious answer is Maine, but that's not technically correct, longitudinally speaking. More than a dozen of Alaska's Aleutian Islands are situated west of the International Date Line. The easternmost of these is Semisopochnoi Island, only 23 minutes west of the Date Line.

Baby chicks get out of their eggs by using:
A) The top of their heads
B) Their feet
C) Air pressure
D) Temporary teeth

Previous answer: When Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" first came out in the 1930s, Grumpy was the best-selling dwarf doll.

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