Some missed trivia

What country is the world’s largest exporter of false teeth?

• Liechtenstein.

How did aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh earn the nickname Lucky Lindy?

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  By surviving four emergency parachute jumps from planes in the two and a half years before his famous 1927 solo transatlantic flight. He parachuted to safety twice while working as an airmail pilot, once as a student pilot, and once as a test pilot.

When it comes to prison tattoos, what’s the significance of “13 1/2”?

• It stands for one judge, 12 jurors, and half a chance of getting out.

In Wall Street-speak, what is the cockroach theory?

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  The belief that adverse earnings reports generally occur in bunches—like cockroaches.

What famous 19th-century American was fired from his U.S. government job for writing an immoral book?

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  Poet Walt Whitman. The book was Leaves of Grass. Whitman, who was working as a clerk for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the U.S. Interior Department, was fired in 1865 after Interior Secretary James Harlan found a copy of the book in the poet’s desk drawer.

What was the first James Bond film in which Agent 007’s boss M was a woman?

• GoldenEye (1995), featuring Pierce Brosnan as Bond and Judi Dench as M.