(Mental Floss) -- It's hard to walk down the aisle of a liquor store without running across a bottle bearing someone's name. 

A costumed reveler at a Captain Morgan party celebrates the rum named after the 17th century privateer. 

We put them in our cocktails, but how well do we know them? 

Here's some biographical detail on the men behind your favorite tipples: 

1. Captain Morgan 

The Captain wasn't always just the choice of sorority girls looking to blend spiced rum with Diet Coke; in the 17th century he was a feared privateer. 

Not only did the Welsh pirate marry his own cousin, he ran risky missions for the governor of Jamaica, including capturing some Spanish prisoners in Cuba and sacking Port-au-Prince in Haiti. 

He then plundered the Cuban coast before holding for ransom the entire city of Portobelo, Panama. 

He later looted and burned Panama City, but his pillaging career came to an end when Spain and England signed a peace treaty in 1671. 

Instead of getting in trouble for his high-seas antics, Morgan received knighthood and became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica. Mental Floss: 5 drinking stories that put yours to shame 

2. Johnnie Walker 

Walker, the name behind the world's most popular brand of Scotch whisky, was born in 1805 in Ayrshire, Scotland. 

When his father died in 1819, Johnnie inherited a trust of a little over 400 pounds, which the trustees invested in a grocery store. 

Walker became a very successful grocer in the town of Kilmarnock and even sold a whisky, Walker's Kilmarnock Whisky.  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where was Johnnie Walker born?
2. where's that?
3. what;s his name on?
4. Irish?
5. What type?
6. is it only sold in Scotland?
7. where is it sold?
8. how much did Johnnie inherit?
9. what was it invested in?
10. in what town?
11. where is captain morgan from?
12. which century was he active?
13. he was a feared what?
14. who did he marry?
15. who did he work for?
16. of which island?
17. what sorts of jobs did he do?
18. where did he sack?
19. where's that?
20. which city did he ransom?
21. in?
Answer: 1. Ayrshire
2. Scotland
3. whisky
4. No
5. Scotch
6. No
7. liquor store
8. a little over 400 pounds
9. a grocery store
10. Kilmarnock
11. Jamaica
12. 17th century
13. privateer
14. his own cousin
15. the governor
16. Jamaica
17. he ran risky missions
18. Port-au-Prince
19. in Haiti
20. Portobelo
21. Panama

(CNN) -- Police in Texas used a Taser on a 42-year-old pastor and pepper spray to disperse members of his church after police said the pastor interfered with a traffic stop. 

Jose Moran was arrested early Wednesday morning after interfering with the duties of a public servant in the parking lot of a Webster, Texas, building that is being remodeled for the Iglesias Profetica Peniel Church, Webster police said in a written statement. 

Moran's son, Omar, said his father had been trying to help. He added that his father has heart problems. 

Moran approached an officer who was handling a traffic stop in the church's parking lot on Wednesday morning, police said. 

Moran identified himself as the church's pastor and began yelling at the officer, police said. 

The officer told Moran to leave several times, but Moran did not, police said. The officer then tried to arrest him. But Moran pushed the officer and ran into the church building, police said. 

Moran's son said after his father asked the officer if he could help, the officer began yelling. The son said his father went back inside the church. 

The officer followed him and kicked in the church door, he said. The pastor came outside, and a second officer used his Taser twice on the pastor, the younger Moran said. 

The son's account differs from the police version of events. Police said Moran emerged from the church building with dozens of other people who subsequently surrounded the officer. 

The officer used pepper spray to disperse the crowd, the statement said.  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who is Moran's son?
2. where did the incident take place?
Answer: 1. Omar
2. parking lot

There once was a little monkey who lived in a zoo. He was a tiny brown monkey, smaller than all of the others. He was quieter than the others too. He was so quiet, in fact, that his mommy monkey made him wear a small blue bell around his neck so that she could find him. Even when the little monkey was very quiet, whenever he moved, the bell would jingle and his mother could find him. 

One day, this little monkey had been running around under the yellow sun for a long time, with his bell going "jingle jingle." He started to feel tired. But the other monkeys were still having fun and making a lot of noise. They were yelling and banging things together. The little monkey wanted to find somewhere quiet. 

Finally, he knew what to do: he took off his blue bell. He hung it on a branch. Then he sneaked out of his cage in the zoo. He waited. He was very quiet and small. He waited until a young girl came walking through the zoo. She was with her mother and father. Then he jumped into her red backpack. He was so small that she didn't know he was there. The girl and her mother and father got in their car and went home. 

When the girl got home, she set down her backpack. Her brother thought he saw her backpack moving. Her sister thought she heard something. But nobody knew that a tiny, sleepy monkey had come home from the zoo. He was happily sleeping in the girl's backpack in her quiet house, away from all the other noisy monkeys. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What color was the monkey?
2. Where did he live?
3. Was he the same size as the other monkeys?
4. What did his mother make him wear?
5. Where?
6. Why did she make him wear it?
7. Why was he hard to find?
8. Why did the small monkey want to get away from the other monkeys?
9. Where did he put his bell?
10. What did the girl have on?
11. Who else was with the girl at the zoo?
12. Did any of them see the monkey hop into the backpack?
13. Did they take him home?
14. Who noticed movement in the backpack?
15. Was the monkey awake when they discovered him?
Answer:
1. brown
2. a zoo
3. No
4. small blue bell
5. his neck
6. so that she could find him
7. He was so quiet
8. wanted to find somewhere quiet
9. on a branch
10. red backpack
11. her mother and father
12. No
13. Yes
14. Her brother
15. No