1. According to Washington Irving’s story, Rip van Winkle fell asleep in the Catskill Mts. for twenty years.

2. The average American woman is five ft. four in. tall.

3. Since it is only ninety pp. long, the text is really a novella, not a novel.

4. The Great Depression began with the stock-market crash on Black Mon.

5. The Coen brothers have a reputation for creating unorthodox films: e.g., Fargo and Inside Llewyn Davis.