n Actor Everett Sloane, best remembered for his role in “Citizen Kane,” was the voice of Dick Tracy in 1960s cartoons and wrote the lyrics to the theme song of “The Andy Griffith Show.”
n Word of the week: “eyeblack.” It is the dark paste that baseball and football players smear under their eyes to minimize glare from the sun or stadium lighting.
During his famous senatorial debates with Stephen Douglas in 1858, Abraham Lincoln made the memorable comment, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” The comment was a paraphrase of words originally found in:
A) The New Testament
B) “Pilgrim’s Progress”
C) “Paradise Lost”
D) “Gulliver’s Travels”
Saturday’s answer: The correct term for a native of Las Vegas is “Las Vegan.”
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