Check your knowledge

— 1. The first movie in the Saint series was The Saint in New York (1938), featuring what actor in the title role?

2. Identify the boy with the pet bear Ben on the television show Gentle Ben.

3. Baltimore Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson had 6,205 of what during his 23-year major league career?

4. Who wrote in “Isle of Beauty” that “Absence makes the heart grow fonder”?

5. How many shots were fired by assassin John Wilkes Booth at President Lincoln?

6. Perry Como earned $28 a week when he became a full-time professional singer in 1933. He had been earning much more doing what?

7. What kind of hat is worn by Johnny in the poem “Frankie and Johnny”?

8. I Want to Live was not an Academy Award-winner as best movie, but the starring actress won a best-actress Oscar. Identify her.

Answers

1. Louis Hayward.

2. Mark Wedloe, played by Clint Howard.

3. Assists. His total set a record.

4. Thomas H. Bayly.

5. One, from a derringer

6. He had been a barber full-time for seven years.

7. The hat is described only as a Stetson.

8. Susan Hayward. She portrays Barbara Graham.

Weekend, Pages 36 on 07/29/2010

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