Word of the week: "CamelCase." It is the practice of writing compound words or phrases with a capital letter somewhere within them. The word is derived from the camel-like "bumps" formed by the internal uppercase letters as compared to the surrounding lowercase letters. Many well-known trade names use CamelCase, like iPhone, eBay, FedEx and BlackBerry.
Sorry to be so late on this, but we were very amused to discover that media celebrity Paris Hilton was engaged for a time in 2005 to a fellow with the same first name, shipping heir Paris Latsis. It reminded us of when Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz were an item a few years before that. If you can think of any other celebrity couples with an interesting name relationship, please let us know.
On three occasions in Academy Award history, one film yielded three of the five nominees for Best Supporting Actor.
Coincidentally, all three films won a Best Picture Oscar. Two of the films are "On the Waterfront" and "The Godfather." What is the third?
A) "The Godfather Part II"
B) "Gone With the Wind"
C) "Forrest Gump"
D) "Rocky"
Previous answer: The lyrics of the pirate song that begins "15 men on a dead man's chest" were written by Robert Louis Stevenson as a fictional pirates’ work song for his novel "Treasure Island."
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