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Answer: The Lone Ranger

An icon of American storytelling, the Lone Ranger is a masked former Texas Ranger who patrolled the Old West to fight crime with his Native American sidekick Tonto. In addition to radio and film serials, "The Lone Ranger" also appeared on the ABC television network in the US from 1949-1957.

A recurring plot device would have the heroes come to the aid of the innocent to thwart a criminal, rescue a captive, or solve a crime. As the Lone Ranger and Tonto rode off into the sunset, one of the rescued townspeople would ask, "Who was that masked man, anyway? I wanted to thank him."

Answer: its initial growing cycle is from September to December

Winter wheat is grown in North America, Europe, and Siberia. It is planted right after the fall harvest, sprouts before the first freeze, and then lies dormant until the spring, when it resumes growing. It is usually harvested in July and is used to make flour for yeast bread or combined with other flours to make the all-purpose flour used in a wide range of food products.

Answer: born on June 10th

These people were also born on June 10th: Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow, groundbreaking actress Hattie McDaniel, disgraced US politicians John Edwards and Eliot Spitzer, and President Obama's younger daughter Natasha (Sasha).

Answer: Tropic of Capricorn

Reflecting the axial tilt of Earth at 23.5 degrees from the plane of its revolution, the Tropic of Capricorn represents the line of latitude at which the sun is directly overhead at noon on December 21 (the Summer Solstice) in the Southern Hemisphere.

The Tropic of Capricorn passes mostly through the great oceans, but does intersect Australia, Chile, southern Brazil, and northern South Africa. Most of the land through which the Tropic of Capricorn passes is arid; with the exception of some parts of South Africa where minimal agriculture is possible and eastern Brazil, which produces abundant crops.

Answer: paparazzo/a

The word "paparazzi", used to describe photographers who follow prominent people in order to get candid pictures of them for various publications, was coined in the 1960s. It appears to have come about when the director Federico Fellini was looking for a surname for a character - a photographer - in the film "La Dolce Vita".

The character was eventually named Paparazzo, but the exact source of the word is unclear. Fellini reportedly said the name was suggested by an Italian word, "pappataci", which means a buzzing insect; but the word might also have come from the film's screenwriter, who borrowed the name of a restaurateur from a travelogue. Regardless, by the late 1960s the term had evolved by following Italian language rules for plural formation of words ending in "-o", to "paparazzi", which became set in the vernacular for intrusive, annoying, and even threatening lensmen.

Answer: The Shakers

The USBCSA formed in England in the late eighteenth century and acquired the name "Shakers", after "Shaking Quakers", a term that referred to the boisterously enthusiastic style of their religious services, which featured singing, dancing, jumping, speaking in tongues, and prophesying. Their communities required celibacy, were daringly egalitarian for the time, and one of their first leaders, Ann Lee, was female. She and a few followers emigrated to the US by 1774 and endured great hardships trying to establish the denomination. However, by 1850, there were communities throughout New England, New York, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. From a high point of over 6000, membership in the sect dwindled into the twentieth century. One small settlement exists in Maine.

The Shakers have become as famous for their music, arts, and crafts as for their religious beliefs, although the two are interconnected. They believed that making something well was itself a religious act, and their buildings, furniture, and implements were built to last. The endurance of these tangible artifacts, many housed in museums and model villages, seems to guarantee that Shaker influence will last longer than their small historic numbers might suggest.

Answer: Lou Gehrig

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, opened in 1939 as a historic repository for baseball artifacts, a center for the study of baseball, and a place to honor the accomplishments of individuals who had distinguished themselves as players, executives, and umpires.

The idea of the Hall was advanced in 1936, and plans were made to construct a building to house it. The first group of people elected to the Hall that year included pitchers Walter Johnson and Christy Mathewson, infielders Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb, and outfielder-pitcher-legendary slugger Babe Ruth.

In the years between 1936 and the opening of the Hall building in 1939, other great players and managers were elected, including Connie Mack, Cy Young, and Lou Gehrig. All of the greats elected between 1936 and 1939 were officially inducted together into the Hall in 1939 at the time of the building's dedication.

Answer: gazelles

The gorgeous Grant's gazelle was named for James Augustus Grant (1827-1892), a Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa. He was a valuable and loyal member of the renowned Speke Expedition which searched for the source of the Nile in 1862. For his writings and contributions to exploration, Grant was awarded the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1864.

Grant's gazelle can be found in the grass plains and bushy savannas of east Africa, in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Kenya. Gazelles in general are in the antelope subfamily, as are kudus, rheboks, and wildebeests.

Answer: conduct a land survey

A theodolite is a precision optical instrument consisting of a small mounted telescope which can be rotated in both the horizontal and vertical planes. It is used to measure angles in surveying, navigation, and metrology. Forerunners of the theodolite were first built in the late sixteenth century in Germany.

In 1787 the first Great Theodolite was constructed for use in southern Britain by Jesse Ramsden. It took three years to build, had a 36-inch-diameter base, and was accurate to within a second of arc.

Modern technology has refined the instrument, making it more portable and accurate, and incorporating electronics, gyrotechnology, and infrared measurement.

Answer: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge's "Rime" was published in 1798 in "Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems", a collection of poems by him and William Wordsworth, which is said to mark the onset of the English Romantic Movement in literature and the birth of modern poetry.

"Rime" is Coleridge's longest major poem (626 lines) and is the story told by an old sailor of a long and perilous sea voyage. The ship sails to Antarctica, from which it is led from danger by an albatross, which the Mariner unaccountably kills. The ship's fortunes promptly reverse and it is becalmed, causing great thirst among the crew and inspiring the lines beginning "water, water, everywhere...." Blamed by the crew for their misfortune, the Mariner is punished by having the dead albatross hung from his neck. The voyage continues, and the symbolism with it. The crew meets Death; and the Mariner meets a living death. The poem has been much studied and its deeper meanings debated. Coleridge himself considered it a story of sin and restoration.