n Small-town “country” city: Lebanon, Ohio (current population about 17,000), a suburb of Cincinnati. Actor Woody Harrelson grew up in Lebanon, astronaut Neil Armstrong once lived there, and the films “Harper Valley PTA” and “Milk Money” were both shot there. (Thanks to Prarthana Canfield of Seattle.)
n Foreign character update: Thanks to Charlie Teske of Olympia, Wash., who let us know that Mickey Mouse is known as Topolino (“little mouse”) in Italian, and the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy is called Dick und Duenn (“thick and thin,” get it?) in Germany. More of these in future issues.
The city of Denver, Colorado, got its name from:
A) Half of the word “golDEN” plus half of the word “silVER”
B) An Indian word meaning “high place”
C) A territorial governor
D) A small town in Pennsylvania
Wednesday’s answer: Four years before “The Godfather,” Francis Ford Coppola directed Fred Astaire in the 1968 musical film “Finian’s Rainbow.”
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