n Fred Astaire received a special Academy Award in 1949 for “his unique artistry,” but his only Oscar nomination was for a dramatic role, in the 1974 film “The Towering Inferno.”

n Actress Alia Shawkat, a regular on the Fox TV series “Arrested Development,” is a granddaughter of actor Paul Burke, who was a regular on the 1960s TV series “Naked City” and “Twelve O’Clock High.”

In the 1930s, what food was voted by the master chefs of the International Society of Epicures in Paris as the “greatest recipe to originate from the Americas in 50 years”?

A) Cotton candy

B) Southern fried chicken

C) Caesar salad

D) Boston cream pie

Monday’s answer: Poet Robert Frost, whose full name was Robert Lee Frost, was named for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.