Museum, Melmac and Marley

1. A museum in Urbana, Ohio, is devoted to John Chapman, who was known for doing what?

A) Compiling an encyclopedia

B) Designing automobiles

C) Mapping the Ohio River

D) Planting orchards

2. Beginning Jan. 10, 1917, and continuing for more than a year, the Silent Sentinels staged a vigil outside the White House in support of what cause?

A) Arizona statehood B) Asylum for refugees C) School desegregation D) Women’s suffrage

3. “Kid, the next time I say, ‘Let’s go someplace like Bolivia,’ let’s go someplace like Bolivia,” is a line from which 1969 movie?

A) “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”

B) “Easy Rider”

C) “Hello, Dolly!”

D) “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”

4. Which 1980s TV character came from the fictional planet Melmac?

A) ALF

B) Data

C) Lennier

D) Max Headroom

5. The Aroostook War and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty involved a disputed boundary between what places?

A) Kansas and Missouri B) Maine and New Brunswick, Canada

C) Montana and Saskatchewan

D) Texas and Mexico

6. In John Grogan’s 2005 book “Marley & Me,” who is Marley?

A) His business partner B) His daughter

C) His dog

D) Musician Bob Marley

Answers

1) Planting orchards

2) The Silent Sentinels held a vigil in support of women’s suffrage.

3) “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”

4) ALF

5) Maine and New Brunswick, Canada.

6) Marley is the author’s yellow Labrador retriever.

FACTS OF THE DAY

• A Chapman Stick is a musical instrument that looks like the neck of a 10-string guitar. It’s named for Emmett Chapman, the guitarist and instrument builder who devised it in the 1960s and refined the design in the 1970s. Rather than fingering the notes with one hand and picking or strumming with the other, a Chapman Stick player uses both hands to “tap” the notes, producing a complex, unique guitar sound.

• “Silent Night” was performed for the first time on Christmas Eve in 1818, appropriately enough at the St. Nicholas church in Oberndorf, Austria. A priest named Josephus Mohr wrote the words, and church organist Franz Xaver Gruber wrote the melody.

• Charles Dickens started work on “A Christmas Carol,” his story about Ebenezer Scrooge, in October 1843, wrote it in six weeks and had it published in time for Christmas. The only original copy of his handwritten manuscript is in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City, which displays it every year at Christmastime.