After 10 years of cinema stardom, actor Boris Karloff made his Broadway debut in 1941 as part of the original cast of the comedy “Arsenic and Old Lace.” He portrayed a criminal who had his face surgically altered to look like – guess who – Boris Karloff. The role wasn’t written for Karloff, but he was persuaded to take it by producers Lindsay and Crouse.

What long-lived celebrity is credited with saying, “I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time”?

A) Ronald Reagan

B) Irving Berlin

C) Tony Bennett

D) Pablo Picasso

Answer Monday

Thursday’s answer: Rosita, the first bilingual Muppet on “Sesame Street,” is a fruit bat.