n Small-town celebrity birthplace of the week: Whitingham, in south-central Vermont (current population about 1,300), just north of the Massachusetts border. Mormon leader Brigham Young was born there in 1801.

At the time Ray Kroc began franchising McDonald’s restaurants in the mid-1950s, the two largest franchised food chains in the United States both specialized in:

A) Pancakes

B) Ice cream

C) Frankfurters

D) Pizza

Wednesday’s answer: Slam Grand is an American-made brand of grand piano, noted for its light weight and low maintenance – it never needs tuning.