Small-town celebrity birthplace of the week: Angola, N.Y. (current population about 2,000), near Lake Erie and Buffalo. Engineer Willis Carrier, known as the father of modern air conditioning, was born there in 1876. Another native is basketballer Christian Laettner, known to sports fans as the only college player on the U.S. gold-medal Dream Team at the 1992 Olympics.

Who was the first actress on a U.S. postage stamp? Strictly speaking, it was Ethel Barrymore, on a 1982 stamp with her brothers Lionel and John. In 1990, Judy Garland appeared on a stamp honoring "The Wizard of Oz" with Toto, as did Vivien Leigh on a "Gone With the Wind" stamp with Clark Gable.

The first two "by herself" actresses on U.S. stamps were Fanny Brice in 1991 and Grace Kelly in 1993.

The 1967 film "The Graduate" stars Dustin Hoffman as recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock and Anne Bancroft as "older woman" Mrs. Robinson. How many years older than Hoffman was Bancroft?
A) 26
B) 16
C) 6
D) Bancroft was younger than Hoffman

Previous answer: The world's two smallest mammals are the Etruscan shrew and the bumblebee bat, the latter native to Southeast Asia.

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