n Olympic swimmer Donna de Varona, who won gold medals at the 1964 Games in Tokyo, became TV’s first female sportscaster in 1965. She is the sister of actress Joanna Kerns, star of the sitcom “Growing Pains.”

nIn “Hamlet,” Shakespeare declares, “Brevity is the soul of wit.” In “The Moon and Sixpence,” who or what does English novelist W. Somerset Maugham call “the soul of wit”?

A) Intelligence

B) Surprise

C) Impropriety

D) William Shakespeare

Wednesday’s answer: After the Portuguese royal family fled from Napoleon’s invasion of its home country, Rio de Janeiro served as capital of Portugal from 1808 to 1821.