The Butler Did It -- Quiz Quilt 6 Solution

Questions listed again for your convenience:

> Six questions whose answers answer the title of this post...
>
> CATEGORY QUESTIONS:
>
> [ Geography & Nature ]
> Which U.S. state was both the first to have a National Park and the
> first to have a National Monument?
>
> [ History & Government ]
> What Barings Bank derivatives trader lost over a billion dollars
> trading in Singapore in 1995 after repeatedly trying to recover his
> losses?
>
> [ Sports & Games ]
> What doctor improvised basketball in 1891 at the YMCA in Springfield,
> Massachusetts?
>
> [ Math & Science ]
> What kind of animal was the first to return alive from a trip into
> space?
>
> [ Literature & Arts ]
> What is the only word that the title character speaks in Edgar Allan
> Poe's "The Raven"?
>
> [ Sports & Games ]
> What actress's baby adorned the cover of the first "TV Guide" on
> April 3, 1953?



CATEGORY ANSWERS:

[ Geography & Nature ]
WYOMING -- Yellowstone became the first National Park on March 1,
1872, and Devil's Tower became the first National Monument on
September 24, 1906.

[ History & Government ]
LEESON -- Englishman Nick Leeson was sentenced to 6-1/2 years in
prison.

[ Sports & Games ]
NAISMITH -- Gym teacher James Naismith's principal had asked him to
develop a safe but exciting game to play indoors during the winter.

[ Math & Science ]
MONKEY -- Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey,
traveled on the May 28, 1959 Jupiter flight. The dog Laika went
into space earlier but did not survive.

[ Literature & Arts ]
NEVERMORE -- The bird concisely reminds its owner that he will never
see his lost love Lenore again.

[ Sports & Games ]
BALL -- The magazine's editor surreptitiously lifted the picture of
Lucille Ball's son, Desi Arnaz, Jr., from his famous father's desk.


QUIZ QUILT ANSWER: BENSON (diagonal from the bottom )

Robert Guillaume's "Soap" character (1977-79) had his own spinoff
(1979-86) in which he ably assisted the Governor.


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