ATTENTION, READERS. It's time for a little game of Jeopardy!. First, for $100: this French veteran of the Napoleonic wars invented hiking and the forest trail by painting blue arrows on strategically placed trees in the unmarked wilds of the Fontainebleau woods. For $200: this mountain in Middle Europe was long believed to house the tomb of Pontius Pilate. Finally, for $300: these obscure bits of ancient trivia, and hundreds more like them, can be found in this new book by a professor of history at Columbia University.
You're ready for the daily double if you responded: 1) Who is Claude...
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