Quiz show: During a preliminary hearing in...

Quiz show: During a preliminary hearing in a robbery case, one of the victims testified that she had helped the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department prepare a composite drawing of her assailant.

“Let me ask you the $64,000 question,” defense attorney Anthony Brooklier asked her. “Does it look like the defendant?”

“Yes,” she responded, then added: “I want the prize.”

Maybe this matter should be turned over to Judge Wapner.

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Which reminds us: One wonders how many prisoners leaving L.A. County Jail over the last couple of months have done a double take upon seeing a newspaper stand that contains the Sept. 27 issue of USA Today’s Baseball Weekly. That issue shows a photo of slugger Ken Griffey Jr. and tells how the strike deprived him of a chance to break a home run record.

But it’s the headline that really stands out, considering the setting: “YOU WERE ROBBED!”

Auditioning for Judge Ito: The producers of “Gotta Sing!”--a TV show that invites viewers to perform--thoughtfully donated a tape to L.A. County Superior Court for the listening pleasure of the O.J. Simpson jury. It’s too soon to tell whether the tape will be played. We might add, though, that in the context of a murder trial, the phrase “Gotta Sing” might have an unintended double meaning.

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The man of someone else’s dreams: As they shared a bottle of wine in a Downtown restaurant, a woman said to a friend: “I hope I get married some day and can be as happy as you and Jim. I can’t believe I just turned 30.”

Friend: “I’m sure you’ll find someone.”

Single woman: “I dunno. Ever since Greg and I broke up. . . .”

Friend: “Greg! That lowlife.”

(They laugh.)

Single woman: “Here’s a weird story. My aunt told me she dreamed that my future husband knocked on her front door. But she couldn’t see who it was, except that he was handsome and wore a suit.”

Friend: “That doesn’t narrow it down much.”

Single woman: “He does look good in a suit.”

Friend: “Who?”

Single woman: “Greg.”

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Ark, the herald angels sing!Joey Awaida, a 5-year-old kindergarten pupil, figured he had made a huge archeological discovery when he spotted an old wooden boat parked across the street from Fremont Elementary School in Long Beach.

Young Joey informed his teacher, Irl Noble: “There’s the boat that God put the animals in by twos.”

miscelLAny Earlier this century, there were no ticket scalpers in Pasadena on New Year’s Day. That’s because, as “California Dreaming” by Jim Rawls notes, the Jan. 1 football game was discontinued from 1903 until 1916 “in favor of Roman-style chariot races, ostrich races and even an elephant vs. camel race. (The elephant won, by the way.)”