Arquette ancestry update: After reading here that actress Rosanna Arquette's father was named Lewis after his ancestor of Lewis and Clark fame, Jim Dickie of Livermore, Calif., wrote us to add to the story. Jim knew Russ Arquette, Rosanna's great-uncle and Cliff "Charlie Weaver" Arquette's brother. Russ' son, Lewis Arquette's cousin, is named "Clark." Coincidence? We don't think so.

Nearly 30 years before his starring role in the sitcom "Green Acres," Eddie Albert wrote and starred in what is believed to be television's first original drama. In October 1936, Albert and co-star Grace Brandt appeared in "The Love Nest," which was broadcast from a transmitter atop the Empire State Building, and received in the RCA Building, about a mile away.

The tune "Eye of the Tiger," performed by the rock group Survivor, was written for the 1982 film "Rocky III" and was #1 on the U.S.

Billboard pop music chart for six weeks that year. The version of the song heard in the film has what element missing from the Billboard single?
A) Sylvester Stallone playing the drums
B) A spoken introduction
C) The growls of a tiger
D) An extended guitar solo

Previous answer: To date, only two people have been to the deepest part of the world's oceans -- the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific. In January 1960, a U.S. Navy lieutenant and a Swiss explorer/engineer got there in a Navy bathyscaph, reaching a depth of 35,813 feet.

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