Q: When is the next time the United States is supposed to host the Olympic games?

A: Chicago is a candidate city to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The winner will be announced in late 2009.

Q. Did Central High School class of 1983 have their 25th class reunion? If so, when and where was it at?

A. The Central class of 1983 was one of several to meet at the Friday'loo event July 25 downtown.

Q. When buying women's clothes is 1X the same as X-large?

A: No, often it is not. For many clothing companies, XL is the largest of the standard sizes offered, and 1X is the first of the plus sizes offered.

Q. Who plays the character "Charlie" on "Texas Walker" with Chuck Norris?

A. Actor Richard Dillard played Charles Sanderson on the "Walker, Texas Ranger."

Q. Where can we donate used prescription glasses?

A. The Waterloo Lions Club gladly accepts them. There are drop-off boxes at Wolfe Eye Clinic, the Red Cross, Hawkeye Chapter, Hagarty-Waychoff-Grarup Funeral Service on West Ridgeway and South Street, Locke Funeral Home, Covenant Cancer Treatment Center, Mauer Eye Clinic, Community National Bank, the Eye-Mart Optical, First Vision, Allen Hospital, Kearns, Huisman-Schumacher Funeral Chapel, Parrott & Wood Funeral Home, an Overton Service, and Urology Associates, or call past club president Pat Sass at 233-9800.

Q. Can you print some information on Michael Phelps' father?

A. Fred Phelps is a retired Maryland state trooper. He and Michael's mother, Debbie, divorced in 1992, and since then he has had limited contact with his son, according to a recent New York Post article.

Q. Why aren't the soap opera summaries printed in the Saturday paper any longer?

A. The summaries are now printed on the TV and advice page in Sunday's paper; it's usually page F2.

Q. I live in a housing development near the Waterloo Post Office. How many trucks and semis deliver mail there 24 hours a day?

A. Unless the caller can specify exactly where they live, it's hard to tell, said Waterloo Post Office Postmaster Greg Barnes. That said, 77 city and rural routes are run out of the Waterloo Post Office each day, which means approximately that many vehicles are in and out of the main location every day. For further clarification, call the U.S. Postal Service at (800) ASK-USPS (800-275-8777).