Small-town celebrity birthplace of the week: Melrose, New Mexico (current population about 700). Cartoon animator William Hanna was born there in 1910.

Although the name Hans is the full first name of such famous people as Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen and Dutch painter Hans Holbein, it was originally a nickname. As first coined, “Hans” is the equivalent of the English nickname of:

A) Bill

B) Bob

C) Joe

D) Johnny

Wednesday’s answer: “I Love Lucy” star and executive producer Desi Arnaz titled his 1976 autobiography “A Book.”