n Word of the week: “chiliad.” It sounds like it’s a commercial for chili, but it has nothing to do with that. It is a group of 1,000 or a period of 1,000 years, a.k.a. “millennium” in the latter sense. The word is derived from the Greek for “thousand.”

nThe gas that makes up over 95 percent of the atmosphere of both Mars and Venus is:

A) Carbon dioxide

B) Hydrogen

C) Methane

D) Nitrogen

Friday’s answer: Louisiana and Minnesota are the two states situated on both sides of the Mississippi River. The river forms the eastern or western border of every other state it touches.