Bad Ruling: Susan Dey and William Kennedy...

Bad Ruling: Susan Dey and William Kennedy have a boss named Burquist, and all three sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. A teacher at the State University of New York at Albany got those responses on a pop quiz when 50 juniors and seniors named the nine justices on the high court. Dey stars on “L.A. Law”; the justice on the Supreme Court is Sandra Day O’Connor. Kennedy is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Ironweed”; the Supreme Court justice is Anthony Kennedy. William H. Rehnquist is chief justice; his predecessor was Warren E. Burger.

Staking Out His Place: What would you do after playing 229 games of checkers simultaneously, defeating 227 contestants, losing one contest and tying one? Charles Walker claimed the title as world checker king in Petal, Miss., over the weekend and exulted: “I am going home and eat me a steak.” Walker’s only defeat came at the board of Marian Tinsley, 65, the mathematics professor and retired undefeated champ: “The only one who beat me was Father Time.”

Is This House His Home?: A Charleston, S.C., legend went under the X-ray when historians examined nails holding together what was believed to be the 18th-Century home of Charles Pinckney, an early American statesman who signed the U.S. Constitution. Science won. The exam showed that the small white cottage, bought two years ago with the surrounding land for $2 million, was probably built in the 1820s--after Pinckney sold the property.

Tag Team: In the 1950s, George Grant says, he wrestled under the moniker Gorgeous George. Now he grapples with loftier issues. The 67-year-old is a fundamentalist preacher, and he no longer even watches wrestling. “When God let me know that I had sufficient preparation to preach, I left the business because I no longer needed it,” says Grant, who traveled 70 miles Sunday to deliver a sermon at a South Carolina church.