What literary character calls the branches of arithmetic “ambition, distraction, uglification and derision”?

A) Huckleberry Finn in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”

B) Yossarian in “Catch-22”

C) Ron Weasley in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”

D) The Mock Turtle in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

Friday’s answer: The person who was nominated the most times for an Academy Award before finally winning is composer Randy Newman (no relation), who had 15 unsuccessful nominations before finally winning for his 2001 “Monsters, Inc.” score. (Thanks to Alan Dunn of Bellingham, Wash.)