n Many baby boomers will remember the 50s TV puppet program “Kukla, Fran and Ollie.” The name of Kukla, the clown puppet, is the Russian word for “doll.”

n Peter Hyams, director of such films as “Timecop” and “2010,” is the grandson of impresario Sol Hurok, who represented musicians such as Marian Anderson and Arthur Rubinstein.

The U.S. city where the highest percentage of its citizens speak Spanish as their first language is located in:

A) California

B) Texas

C) Florida

D) New Mexico

Thursday’s answer: The technical term for a cluster of bananas is a “hand.”