• John Williams has won four Oscars for his original film scores, but he won his first Oscar for music he didn’t write – his adaptation of the Broadway score for the 1971 film “Fiddler on the Roof.”
• Two persons of East Asian descent have been heads of state of South American nations: Arthur Chung, former president of Guyana, and Alberto Fujimori, former president of Peru.
What Supreme Court justice served in all three branches of state government before being appointed to the high court?
A) Antonin Scalia
B) Clarence Thomas
C) Sandra Day O’Connor
D) John Roberts
Monday’s answer: British astronomer Edmond Halley moved to the island of St. Helena in 1676 to map the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere.
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