n Ed Oertel of Martinez, Calif., told us about another celebrity who died on his birthday: actor John Banner (1910-1973), who portrayed German prison guard Sgt. Schultz on “Hogan’s Heroes.” An Austrian-born Jew in real life, Banner had been in a Nazi concentration camp before coming to America.
Many trivia fans know that an image of Abraham Lincoln appears on both sides of a U.S. penny; Abe’s statue in the Lincoln Memorial is on the “tails” side. The other president who appears on both sides of a current general-circulation U.S. coin is:
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Franklin D. Roosevelt
C) George Washington
D) John F. Kennedy
Tuesday’s answer: The “Gossamer Albatross,” the first human-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel, was powered by pedaling. Bryan Allen, who piloted the craft on the crossing, was an amateur competitive cyclist.
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