Henry Dacier of Rio Vista, Calif., asks what a resident of Chicago suburb Des Plaines, Ill., is called. We phoned Des Plaines City Hall to get the answer firsthand. A friendly civil servant told us “Chicagoan” – there’s no term based on “Des Plaines.”
The treasurer of the United States, whose signature appears on all U.S. paper money, advises various governmental agencies on coinage and currency. Since 1949, each of the 14 people appointed by the president to be treasurer of the United States has been a:
A) Woman
B) Republican
C) Native American
D) Banker
Tuesday’s answer: Felix Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” became a popular choice for weddings after it was selected for the 1858 nuptials of Victoria, daughter of Great Britain’s Queen Victoria. Princess Victoria was the mother of Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II.
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