Do you enjoy quizzes? The kind where your answers are always the correct ones? What’s not to not like? Let’s try a few questions to which the answers at one time were important in our county or worldwide. See how many you can answer?

• Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.

• Do you even know what the Heisman Trophy is awarded for?

• Name the past five winners of the Miss America contest?

• Is there still a swimsuit category? Why or why not?

• Can you name 10 people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer prizes in any category?

• What has funded the Nobel or Pulitzer prizes?

• Can you name six of the last Academy Award winners for either actor or actress? How about the last six films?

• In music who were the last five winners of the Country Music Award?

• Name five world leaders who were assassinated.

• Closer to home, do you know any of those cowboys who won at the National Rodeo event or Cheyenne Frontier Days?

Me neither. Excitement over who or what will win whatever comes and goes. Folks become addicted to watching the Voice TV show. Do you remember who won three years ago?

Here’s a quiz you will know the answers to. You may have to stop and consider your responses for a bit. Blow the dust bunnies out of your memory bank. It’s okay to change your mind or make additions. I’m not grading this.

• Think back. Name three teachers who turned a light on for you. Perhaps it was long division when you suddenly thought, “Oh, I get it now.” It might have been a science or biology teacher. I was scared of my sophomore biology teacher, but I liked her. I can’t remember classification of vertebrates and invertebrates, but I know pronunciation. She waved a Bunsen burner at me when I pronounced metamorphosis wrong. In the same way I thank my Latin teacher. She had little personality but taught me how to figure out a new word using its Latin base. Perhaps a coach made a big difference in your life. I have fond memories of my sixth-grade teacher who read to us every day. I followed her example when I was teaching.

• Name your five forever friends. Those are the ones that you see infrequently, but you simply pick up where you left off. Perhaps they were school chums, college roommates or you raised all the kids together. They may be all of those things. It could be a brother or sister you are especially close to. Don’t discount family. I have two girlfriends going back to first grade. We never lived close to one another but kept in touch. One lives in Tucson; the other in Colorado Springs. Would you believe that last one drove up here for my 80th birthday party? Another forever friend flew from Reno for the event. That was a grand surprise. She is the one who lived on the same street and we raised our kids together. Then there is my college roommate living in North Carolina; we toured the UK together a few years back. Letters, cards and the telephone keep us close. My fifth forever friend is my sister Sharon. What a treasure! A forever friend has history with you, and watches your back when life gets rough. I have several close friends in the area and count on them all the time.

• How about non-family adults who mentored you when you were young? How might your life have been different without them? Did you listen to them? Wouldn’t it be nice to chat with them today?

• Last are the people you enjoy spending time with. Different folks fill different slots. Your fishing buddy is not your travel partner. The bridge or mahjong player can’t talk quilting, nor can your hunting pal mess around in the garage with you.

I hope you scored 100 percent on this, but mostly that you thought for a few moments of all those special friends God blessed you with. Keep in touch with each one. All are special folks who added to your life. Return the favor.

Mary Louise Routh Brodie is a freelance writer and Pinedale resident. Her column appears in the Roundup every other week.