1. Who is this wrestler?
2. What is this?
3. What’s noteworthy about what these ladies are wearing?
4. This photo of President Nixon and Elvis Presley, taken Dec. 21, 1970, was in the news this week because the Richard Nixon Presidential Library has opened an exhibit documenting that curious and clandestine meeting. At the meeting, what did Nixon agree to give Presley?
A. U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge.
B. Autographed photo of Checkers.
C. A pair of cuff links that belonged to Vice President Spiro Agnew.
D. One of the knicknacks on the shelves behind them.
5. These ladies’ names all appeared in the same story Wednesday. What was the story?
6. A chef at a Wilmette restaurant prepared this for a Good Eating story. What is it?
ANSWERS: 1. U.S. Rep. Dennis Hastert as a member of the Wheaton College wrestling team in the 1960s. The Tribune reported this week that Hastert, who graduated from Wheaton in 1964, will donate documents from his nearly 20 years in the House. 2. The ears of a sucker-footed bat. This rare bat looks similar to those of a newly discovered species that lives only in Madagascar. 3. It’s notable that they’re wearing anything at all. They are dancers at the Bada Bing, the strip club in “The Sopranos.” In the HBO version, they are naked. In the new version for airing on A&E, they are in lingerie. 4. A. U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge. “Oh, man, we were set up! But it was fun,” said Egil “Bud” Krogh, Nixon’s then-deputy assistant for domestic affairs. 5. They all appeared on Mr. Blackwell’s lists: Camille, Duchess of Cornwall, and Paris Hilton on the “Worst Dressed” list, and Nancy Pelosi on his “Fabulous Fashion Independents” list. 6. German apple pancake from Walker Bros. The Original Pancake House.
