7/88Price paid in West Virginia last April for a case of Billy Beer: $2,000

Johnny Parson (Cartersburg, W. Va.)

9/91Weight of the ovarian cyst removed in May from a West Virginia woman, in pounds: 180

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Missoula, Mont.)

10/94Height, in feet, of a West Virginia prison wall scaled last June by an escaping inmate using a cord made of dental floss: 18

Larry Parsons, South Central Regional Jail (Charleston, W.Va.)

2/97Number of Shakespeare’s 37 plays that West Virginia senator Robert Byrd has quoted on the Senate floor: 37

Office of Senator Robert Byrd

3/00Minimum number of miles of West Virginia streams buried by mining waste since 1986: 470

The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy (Rockcabe, W.Va.)/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Washington)

10/02Number of corrections professionals who attended a mock riot at a former West Virginia prison in May: 1,235

Office of Law Enforcement Technology Commercialization (Moundsville, W.Va.)

6/03Percentage unemployment in Palestine, West Virginia, the hometown of former POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch: 15

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

7/07Percentage of West Virginia public schools that will use the video game Dance Dance Revolution in P.E. classes next year: 100

West Virginia Department of Education (Charleston)