What are starfish considered?

Because starfish aren’t fish, marine biologists prefer to call them sea stars — even though they’re not always traditionally star-shaped. Most have five arms, but many have 10, 20 or even 40, and if they lose one it will grow back. A sea star doesn’t have a brain; its arms contain its central nervous system. It doesn’t have blood, either. Filtered seawater circulates through its body. Trivia question: Created by marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg, Patrick Star the starfish is a character in which animated series? A) “Aquaman” B) “Bubble Guppies” C) “Splash and Bubbles” D) “SpongeBob SquarePants”

We may never know when or where the first beer was brewed, but it happened a long time ago. A regulation specifying a fair price for beer is in the laws of Babylonian king Hammurabi written in the 18th century B.C. Beer also figures in the “Epic of Gilgamesh,” which predates Hammurabi by about a thousand years. That tale mentions Siduri, a mythical goddess of beer.

If the characters of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty in the Disney animated films look similar it’s because both were modeled on Helene Stanley, a dancer and film ingenue of the 1940s and ‘50s. She was also the model for Anita Radcliffe, the wife in the 1961 animated film “One Hundred and One Dalmatians” and she played Polly Crockett, Davy Crockett’s wife, in the liveaction film “Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.”

For a brief period in 2010, Burger King offered a menu item called the Sprout Surprise Whopper to customers at select locations in the U.K. It featured a burger topped with Brussels sprouts and Emmental Swiss cheese. You might not be surprised to hear the sandwich was not a hit. Give credit for trying, though. Brussels sprouts are healthy, tasty little relatives of cabbage and broccoli. They just might not be the best burger topping.

Daniel Defoe’s novel “Robinson Crusoe” was based on the real-life exploits of a sailor named Alexander Selkirk, who was abandoned by his ship’s captain in 1704 on an uninhabited isle called Mas a Tierra off the Pacific coast of Chile. “Robinson Crusoe” was published in 1719, 10 years after Selkirk was rescued. Mas a Tierra in the Juan Fernandez Islands is now called Robinson Crusoe Island. A larger neighboring island formerly known as Mas Afuera was renamed Alejandro Selkirk Island.

Max Factor is considered the “father” of movie makeup; in fact, some people maintain that he made the noun “makeup” part of our vocabulary. A beautician and wigmaker to the Russian royal family before immigrating to the United States in 1904, he formulated makeup in numerous skin tone shades that made actors and actresses look natural onscreen. Performers liked it so much they took it home with them from the set. So Max Factor started making cosmetics for everyday use, and a company was born. Trivia answer: Patrick Star the starfish is a character in “SpongeBob SquarePants.”