n At least four years before the Burger King Corp. got to Illinois in 1962, the small town of Mattoon had an unrelated Burger King restaurant. The big company eventually took the little guy to court, but didn’t exactly win. Mattoon’s Burger King is still in business, and since 1968, the “big” Burger King has been legally prohibited from opening a location within 20 miles of Mattoon.

According to that most authoritative of sources, “The Simpsons,” Chilean writer and 1971 literature Nobelist Pablo Neruda called laughter “the language of the soul.” According to a Neruda poem devoted exclusively to the subject, what is “the gold of the universe”?

A) A smile

B) A lemon

C) A sunrise

D) A puppy

Answer Monday.

Thursday’s answer: Finland has been a democracy since 1919. Denmark, Sweden and Norway are all constitutional monarchies.