• In all of the 37 plays attributed to William Shakespeare, only once is a dog given a name. The pet dog of Launce in “Two Gentlemen of Verona” is called Crab.

• Prince Philip, consort of Queen Elizabeth II, was born on the Greek island of Corfu. He is the grandson of Greece’s King George I, who reigned from 1863 to 1913.

The ulna, familiar to crossword puzzle fans, is one of two bones in the human forearm. The other forearm bone, which shares its name with a mathematical term, is called the:

A) Calculus

B) Tangent

C) Radius

D) Axis

Thursday’s answer: The fox trot was named for Harry Fox, a vaudeville comedian who popularized the dance step in the 1910s.