1. Three: Cain, Abel, and Seth
2. Wall•E [EVE stood for Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator]; Bette Davis
3. Ryan Seacrest; 1972
4. (a) the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (b) “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” [Loesser also wrote “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” among others]
5. The hypothesis is that every human now on earth is descended through a maternal line to a particular African woman who lived less than 200,000 years ago.
6. A day represents the time it takes for a planet to rotate on its axis or with respect to its star; Mars has a day only slightly longer than one on Earth
7. (a) Billie Holiday; (b) Adrian Peterson
8. Armistice Day (originally commemorating the end of the first World War); Decoration Day (originally commemorating the dead of the Civil War)
9. June 6, 1944; December 7, 1941
10. (a) someone who routinely buys and sells stocks or other securities on the basis of small short-term price movements, often in the same trading day (b) a time of youthful innocence (typically recalled with fondness, though not so as Shakespeare first used the term in Antony and Cleopatra )
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