Our industrious Oscar researcher, Lance Richmond of Seattle, has returned with a brand-new chart of films that have featured the most Academy Award performers. Not counting documentaries and films where the stars portrayed themselves, the two films with the most Oscar actors are the first "Around the World in 80 Days" and "The Greatest Story Ever Told," both with eight. More goodies from Lance's list in future columns.

Gideons International update: Thanks to all the Gideons members who wrote to let us know that the organization doesn't mind at all if hotel patrons take home Gideon Bibles. They told us that Gideons visit hotels at least once a year to replace "lost" or damaged Bibles.

In all, it has distributed more than one billion Bibles worldwide since its founding in 1899.

The set of waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls, located on the U.S./Canadian border in New York and Ontario, is part of what river?
A) Mohawk
B) St. Lawrence
C) North York
D) Niagara

Previous answer: The motto of the New York City borough of Brooklyn is "Een Draght Mackt Maght,'' Dutch for "In Unity There is Strength." The Dutch were the first Europeans to colonize the area. (Thanks to Adam Cohen of Brooklyn, N.Y.)

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