My gf and I had a chat about palindromes this morning, as a result of... oh, never mind, it would be far to complicated to explain. Anyway, she sent me this:
If you said that came out of a US geography book, I'd believe it. Back in the day I used to watch Millionaire with future Mrs LVSteve#1 and her mother. When a geography question came up, they would chorus, "Uh-oh! Geography question, better ask the foreigner". I could understand it if this only applied to places outside of the continental US, but all too often I was the only one who knew the answers for stuff in California, where the ladies used to live!