A record six-thousand-and-change players took part in last week’s Tuesday Trivia quiz; about three hundred sent in replies so we could ogle their scores here. (That’s about typical, by the way; since the beginning, 95% of our solvers have preferred the don’t-ask-don’t-tell approach to trivia. I can’t really blame them. Would you rather yell Jeopardy! answers at the TV from your couch, or play in the studio? What if there were no cash or prizes? That’s what I thought.)

Sixteen players answered all seven questions, and seven of our winners were first-time players. A special shout-out to Bobby Goldstein, whose name was inadvertently left off the winners’ list in this week’s mailing. The other fifteen: Ellen Choate, Hugh Davis, Benjamin DeMott, Mitchell Kaufman, Mike Leger, Diane Linthicum, Gregory Narver, Rael 007, Ney Rios, Christiane Rodes, Sdcmm1, Colin Smith, Travis Vitello, Amanda Wallwin, and S K Williams. Ney Rios’s perfect score creates another tie at the top of the standings, because his nemesis Raj Dhuwalia didn’t know the Nelly Furtado question.

The Uber-Tough Question Number Seven was actually one of the most-answered questions last week, as I’d predicted. One hundred eight players managed to figure out what Charles Lindbergh, Mel Brooks, Ronald Reagan, Jerry Stiller, and Shakespeare had in common: they were married to women named Anne. So the Anne-swer to the question, the famous two-time member of the club, was Henry VIII, who beheaded Anne Boleyn in 1536 and annuled his marriage to Canadian chanteuse Anne Murray in 1540. We managed to trip up a few players by including Ronald Reagan on the Anne list, but many knew that Nancy Davis Reagan was born Anne Francis Robbins.

The “Alabama” clue in question 4 proved to be a pretty good tipoff that the famous vehicle in question was the Montgomery city bus on which Rosa Parks made history. What amazed me was the dozens of respondents who confidently answered “the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile” for that question. I’m mystified. Why, of all the famous vehicles in the world, the Wienermobile in particular? I’m guessing this is the first time in history the Rosa Parks bus has been so widely confused with the Wienermobile. How would the civil rights movement have been different if Rosa had been riding the Wienermobile home from work on that fateful day? We may never know.