Frank Nieman of Pleasant Hill, Calif., thought he remembered hearing the 1961 Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer tune "Moon River" on a 1940s radio show in Cincinnati and asked us to check into it. Our research revealed that Cincinnati's WLW had a poetry-reading program called "Moon River" back then, but its theme song started with, "Moon River, a lazy stream of dreams," and had a completely different melody.
The Curse of Billy Penn: Since the 1987 construction of Philadelphia's One Liberty Place, which exceeded the height of William Penn's statue atop City Hall, none of the city's major sports teams has won a championship. Last June, Philly's new Comcast Center was topped out as the city's tallest building.
In an effort to lift the curse, workers attached a small statue of Penn to the building's final beam. Will it help? As they say, it couldn't hurt.
With three incumbent U.S. senators in the running for the presidency as of this writing, we offer this relevant question: How many incumbent U.S. senators were elected president in the last 100 years, that is, from 1908 until now?
A) None
B) 2
C) 4
D) 7
Previous answer: Scottish-born Mungo Park was an explorer of Africa in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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