THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, September 18, 1994 TAG: 9409160241
SECTION: SUFFOLK SUN PAGE: 08 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Short : 43 lines
(Questions appear on Page 4)
Our artistic trivia personality is Charles Beneke, who had a one-man show at the Suffolk Museum back in 1988, when he was an art major at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
These days he is both student and teacher.
Beneke, 26, is in the Masters Graduate Program at the University of Connecticut, in Storrs, where he will soon begin teaching undergraduate students.
His major interest is lithography. He is studying that plus painting and photography.
Beneke's wife, Sarah, is also a teacher, working at a school in Manhattan.
Our trivia subject also keeps occupied as a freelancer doing designs for covers of paperback books.
And now for the other answers:
1. The first color movie to win an Oscar for best picture is - what else - ``Gone With the Wind.'' The year, as if you didn't know, was 1939.
2. William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols smooched television's first interracial kiss. It was, as if you didn't know, on an episode of ``Star Trek.''
3. The madcap comedienne who influenced Burnett, Diller and Ball - all of whom copied her in one way or another - was Joan Davis, star of the early situation comedy, ``I Love Joan.''
On the big screen she starred in small, B features.
4. President Jimmy Carter was the speedreading prez who was once clocked at 2,000 words per minute.
5. The large panda is related to, of all things, the li'l raccoon. ILLUSTRATION: President Jimmy Carter
Speed reader
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