• Legendary lawman Wyatt Earp lived in Hollywood in the 1920s, where he befriended a young film extra and prop man who would become John Wayne. Wayne is said to have based his screen persona on Earp.

Considering financial results for calendar year 2004, the world’s most profitable television network is:

A) HBO

B) ABC

C) CBS

D) CNN

Wednesday’s answer: Singer Tony Bennett, whose portrait of Ella Fitzgerald is in the Smithsonian’s collection, is an accomplished painter who signs his work “Benedetto,” his real surname.