Music, mottos, land and sea
1. Who composed “Moon River,” the Oscar-winning theme song from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”?
A) Elmer Bernstein B) Maurice Jarre C) Henry Mancini D) Ennio Morricone
2. The vengeful Madame Defarge worked the names of her enemies into her knitting in what classic novel?
A) “Dracula” B) “Middlemarch”
C) “A Tale of Two Cities” D) “The Woman in White”
3. The Rhode Island state seal features an anchor and what one-word motto?
A) Courage B) Faith C) Freedom D) Hope
4. Which spice is made from the dried, ground fruits of the Capsicum annuum plant?
A) Cumin B) Ginger C) Nutmeg D) Paprika
5. Toussaint Louverture led a slave rebellion that helped establish what nation?
A) Cameroon
B) Haiti
C) Jamaica D) Vietnam
6. The Rhine River originates in the Alps and empties into which body of water?
A) Atlantic Ocean B) Baltic Sea C) North Sea
D) Strait of Gibraltar
Answers
1. Henry Mancini composed “Moon River” for the film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
2. Madame Defarge was the vengeful knitter in Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities.”
3. The Rhode Island state seal features an anchor and the word “hope.”
4. Paprika is made from the dried, ground fruits of the Capsicum annuum pepper plant.
5. In the late 18th century, Toussaint Louverture led a slave rebellion that helped establish Haiti as a nation.
6. The Rhine River empties into the North Sea.
FACTS OF THE DAY
• Roger Williams came to North America from England as a Puritan minister in 1631 and then separated from the church and formed a colony that became Rhode Island. There are no known portraits of him made while he was alive, which created a dilemma for sculptor Armand LaMontagne when commissioned in 1997to make a bronze sculpture of Williams for Roger Williams University. So LaMontagne gave his statue the face of Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams.
• America’s first KFC franchise restaurant opened in the 1950s in Salt Lake City, Utah, thanks to Pete Harman, a Utah restaurateur and friend of “Colonel” Harland Sanders. Sanders prepared his famous “original recipe” chicken for Harman and his wife, who decided to put it on their own restaurant menu, calling it Kentucky Fried Chicken in Sanders’ honor.
• The American patriotic song “My Country, ’Tis of Thee” has the same tune as the British anthem “God Save the Queen.” That tune is also used for the national anthem of Liechtenstein, “Oben am jungen Rhein,” and for the royal anthem of Norway.