• In 1969, author Norman Mailer ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York City, on a platform of making the city the 51st state.

• Vatican City’s Sistine Chapel, the official residence of the Pope and home of the famous ceiling art of Michelangelo, is named for Pope Sixtus IV, during whose reign the chapel was built.

The densest astronomical body in our solar system, having the highest weight per unit of volume, is:

A) The Sun

B) Jupiter

C) Earth

D) Mars

Previous answer: The UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer manufactured in the U.S., was originally intended for the Bureau of the Census, which paid much of its development cost.

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