n Word of the week: “quadrumanous.” From the Latin for “four” and “hand,” it means “four-handed.” For example, a monkey’s feet are all adapted for use as hands. The word was used in the final rounds of the 2007 AARP National Senior Spelling Bee.

• The oldest surviving brand name in recorded sound is Columbia Records, 1888. They are the first company to manufacture records, issued its first record catalog in 1890. The records in that first catalog consisted entirely of:

A) Operatic arias

B) Military band music

C) Spoken poems

D) Everyday sounds

Friday’s answer: Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus gave the name “theobroma,” Latin for “food of the gods,” to the cacao tree, from which we get chocolate.