Small-town celebrity birthplace of the week: Danville, Quebec (current population about 4,000). Pioneer film director Mack Sennett, born Mikall Sinnott, was born there in 1880.

Coincidence? Not exactly. The easternmost and westernmost points of the United States have the same name: Point Udall, Virgin Islands, and Point Udall, Guam, respectively. The former was named for Stewart Udall, John F. Kennedy’s interior secretary. The latter was named for Stewart’s brother Morris, who was an Arizona congressman for 30 years.

Scientifically speaking, ecology is considered a branch of:

A) Biology

B) Chemistry

C) Meteorology

D) Geology

Wednesday’s answer: Mark Twain is credited with saying, “A classic is something that everybody wants to have read but nobody wants to read.”