Small-town celebrity birthplace of the week: Danville, Alabama (current population not more than 200, according to the local post office). Jesse Owens, winner of four gold medals in track and field at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, was born there in 1913.

n Has the success of the recent animated film “Ratatouille” made that word any easier for Americans to spell? We doubt it. Your humble trivia author’s biggest spelling bugaboos have always been those long, pesky words from French cuisine like bouillabaisse, vichyssoise and bourguignon. And does anyone else get meringue (as in lemon pie) and merengue (the dance) mixed up?

“Growler” is the technical term for the smallest of the six recognized categories of:

A) Poodles

B) Beer bottles

C) Icebergs

D) Locomotives

Wednesday’s answer: Cartoonist Jim Davis named Garfield for his grandfather, James Garfield Davis, who was himself named for president James Garfield.