n International sitcom update: Thanks to all who wrote with additional sitcoms set outside the U.S. The most notable ones: “McHale’s Navy,” “Gilligan’s Island,” “The Love Boat,” “The Flintstones” and “SpongeBob SquarePants.”

According to screenwriter/director Nora Ephron, the two literary works “from which 98 percent of all romantic comedies derive” are Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” and:

A) Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”

B) Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”

C) Jules Verne’s “Around the World in 80 Days”

D) Cervantes’ “Don Quixote de la Mancha”

Monday’s answer: Ohio’s official state beverage is tomato juice. More tomato juice is produced in Ohio than in any other state.