Beginning at the beginning: The very first cents-off grocery coupon issued in the U.S. was for:

Ho Hos.

Ha-has.

Chuckles.

Grape-Nuts.

Rolling right along -- you are most likely to clip coupons if you fall into which of the following age ranges?

18- to 24-year-olds, because they're first starting out and struggling a bit.

65- to 85-year-olds, because many are scraping by on fixed incomes.

35- to 44-year-olds, because ...well, we don't rightly know why they snip 'n' save more than others, but they just do.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. Just how many billions would you say our collective clipping has saved this nation's proud and cents-ible snippers?

About $4 billion.

Just under $3 billion.

$2.5 billion, practically on the nose.

Who do you think is more likely to use coupons -- rich folks? Poor folks? Middlin' ones? Let's get a little more precise here -- those earning:

$75,000-plus.

Under $25,000.

$25,000 to $50,000.

$50,000 to $75,000.

September 1998 marked the debut of National Coupon Month. Are we lying or what?

It's the truth, Ruth.

Another bold-faced trick question -- and not even a very good one! I am so not falling for this.

The name Nielsen has a prominent place in the annals of couponing. Who or what does Nielsen refer to?

Ozzie and Harriet's son, and Ricky's brother, David. After going through a rough spell when his family's hit sitcom ended, he famously praised grocery coupons as a ''godsend.''

The first clearinghouse devoted to coupon redemption.

The ''boy band'' that preceded Hanson. Their cherubic faces graced coupons for peanut butter from Hawaii to Maine, contributing to a 15 percent spike in sales for one famous manufacturer.

Say, which grocery category's coups are we most blanketed with, distributionally speaking?

Those durn bran cereals. Forget the heartbreak of psoriasis -- the overarching national heartbreak appears to be that of irregularity.

Those scrubbing, sudsing, foaming, doing the cha-cha household cleaners.

Extruded meat-like products.

What percent of manufacturers send coupons to consumers only upon request?

10 percent.

25 percent.

35 percent.

Let's say you use a manufacturer's coupon toward the purchase of a sale-priced product -- then take advantage of said manufacturer's rebate offer for said product. Whoopee, you just scored a:

Triple lutz.

Triple Lebowksi.

Triple play.

While we're all on the Internet right now -- do you remember when coupons made their debut here? (No fair sneaking off for a Google search!)

1985.

1995.

1999.