Oenophiles (wine lovers) know soave as a dry white wine from the Verona area of Italy. With "dry" and "sweet" being opposites in the wine world, how did "soave," Italian for "sweet," become the name for a dry wine? Blame English for its multiple meanings of "sweet." "Soave" means "sweet" as in "gentle" or "delicate"; the Italian word for "sweet as in sugar" is "dolce."

Weird Wide Web: Visit www.etchy.org for your very own cyber-Etch A Sketch, complete with red box and white knobs, although you draw with your keyboard's arrow keys. Just like the real thing, your Etch A Sketch jiggles when you start over.

Even better than the real thing: You can undo your work pixel by pixel, rather than starting over completely.

What distinction do these celebrities share: Henry Kissinger, Bob Hope, Whoopi Goldberg and Pope John Paul II? They are all:
A) Honorary Harlem Globetrotters
B) Nobel Prize winners
C) USO Show veterans
D) Members of the Comedy Hall of Fame

Previous answer: The first recording of the tune "Blueberry Hill" was made by singing cowboy Gene Autry, for the 1941 western "The Singing Hill." (Thanks to James Allen of Indianapolis.)

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