• Ad-agency art director Marvin Potts created the smiling frosted pitcher design for Kool-Aid in 1954. He was inspired by the patterns that his son traced on a frosty windowpane.

• Straddling the Mississippi River in the Midwest, geographic neighbors Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa, plus Moline and Rock Island in Illinois, are known as the Quad Cities.

Ten years before Yul Brynner portrayed the king of Siam in the film version of “The King and I,” what future Oscar winner portrayed the king in the 1946 film “Anna and the King of Siam”?

A) David Niven

B) Marlon Brando

C) Rex Harrison

D) Gregory Peck

Wednesday’s answer: Natives of Brazil spell the name of their country “Brasil.”