n 25 Years Ago in TV Guide: Our favorite June 1983 cover featured this motley group: Alan Alda, Valerie Bertinelli, Erik Estrada and Linda Evans. Those four and others were discussed in the article “They’re Stars – But Can They Act?”

Long before Wisk was introduced in 1956 as the first liquid laundry detergent (its “Ring around the collar” commercials debuted in 1974), the name Wisk was:

A) A character in a Charles Dickens novel

B) A brand of hunting rifle

C) A variety of avocado

D) A common surname in Austria

Monday’s answer: Giving a person “the third degree” is derived from Freemasonry. Specifically, the Masonic ritual associated with attaining the Third Degree.