Price-Per-Gallon Update: Thanks to Dick Anderson of Pacheco, Calif., who figures that the typical cost of the ink in an inkjet printer cartridge exceeds an eye-popping $2,000 per gallon. That's figuring 58.5 milliliters per cartridge, 3785 milliliters per gallon, and a typical $33 cost per cartridge. But we were able to find full gallons of cartridge ink for sale on the Web for a reasonable(?) $150 or so per gallon.

Why Election Day is when it is has much to do with our agrarian past. It's in November because it was considered the most convenient month for farmers to travel to the polls. It's on a Tuesday so that farmers wouldn't have to begin a two-day journey on Sunday to vote. And it's on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November to prevent it from ever falling on November 1 -- All Saints Day, and a day when merchants would work on their books for the previous month.

Two-time Oscar winner Jack Lemmon was born into a well-to-do family, attending the Phillips Academy prep school (a.k.a. Andover) and Harvard University. In what unusual location was Lemmon born?
A) On an airplane
B) In a hospital elevator
C) In a donut shop
D) In a cow barn

Previous answer: Bracchio Di Ferro (Iron Arm) is the Italian name of Popeye the Sailor.

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