Sebastian is my eleven-year-old and he says some of the funniest things–we have no idea where he gets his material since his mother and I are rather boring, serious people. 

The boys were going after each other with trivia. Nathan, five and a half years older, was taking his brother to the woodshed until Sebastian came across a vein of knowledge that his brother had never touched.

Sebastian: “Name one of the first two emperors of the Han dynasty.”

Nathan: “Do you know?”

Seba: “Of course!”

Nathan: “OK. You win, I don’t know.”

Sebastian: “Ha!”

Nathan: “Well, who were they?”

Seba: “One was ‘San’ something.”

Nathan: “That’s it? That’s all you got? Who was the other one?”

Seba: “I have no idea.”