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69. USS Langley
70. Samuel Langley was the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and an early aviation pioneer (and, as such, a fierce rival of the Wright Brothers). He was also the first American aviator to fly off a makeshift platform on a U.S. warship, the USS Pennsylvania, but crashed on one of his early flights, IIRC.
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Correct on both counts. (Though I can’t recall whether it was Pennsylvania or not, now.) The other thing I was thinking for 70, was that Langley’s sponsors had been claiming, for years, that he was the person who’d had the first manned powered flight. And as such they’d been denying the Wright brothers’ claim to having had the first powered flight. It wasn’t until the WWI time-frame that Langley’s heavily modified (by Curtiss, I think) aircraft actually made a modest powered flight.
At the time that the USS Langley was launched, the Smithsonian in particular, and the US gov’t as a whole, I believe, were still claiming that Langley had the credit for the first powered flight. Which, at the most generous, is some pretty impressive stubbornes.
But the aircraft flying off the USS Langley owed far more to the Wright Flyer than to Langley’s Aerodrome. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that they were Wright products, actually.
Who is the Baby Ruth candy bar named for (and hint: it wasn’t a baseball player)?
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Actually there is considerable dispute about this and the evidence points to the fact that it was named after Babe Ruth but the company simply did not want to pay the royalties involved with using his name. Supposedly the bar was named after the child was long dead but just as Ruth was coming into his own as a home run hitter. If it was named after a deceased child of a former President I am guessing that it was the first and last time in history this happened.
What major league baseball player was taken on an All-Star team (which included Babe Ruth) tour of Japan prior to WWII because he was conversant in Japanese and was assigned to take pictures of various Japanese sites in Tokyo which were later used in bombing raids?
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If you accept my answer I have a question.
What major league baseball player was taken on an All-Star team (which included Babe Ruth) tour of Japan prior to WWII because he was conversant in Japanese and was assigned to take pictures of various Japanese sites in Tokyo which were later used in bombing raids?
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[81.] What major league baseball player was taken on an All-Star team (which included Babe Ruth) tour of Japan prior to WWII because he was conversant in Japanese and was assigned to take pictures of various Japanese sites in Tokyo which were later used in bombing raids?
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53. Name the Russian Jewish immigrant and Marconi operator who founded RCA and would eventually become 52’s archrival/nemesis in the creation of television.
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Tesla?
Who was the first President born in the United States?
Name both bachelor presidents and which one got married while in office.
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53. Name the Russian Jewish immigrant and Marconi operator who founded RCA and would eventually become 52’s archrival/nemesis in the creation of television.
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I would like to point out that David Sarnoff did not found RCA – he was a middle manager at the time the corporation was set up as a General Electric subsidiary by G.E. vp Owen Young in 1919. Sarnoff worked his way up through the ranks, and became RCA’s third president, succeeding James Harbord in 1930.
What current US state didn’t exist as a state when Stonewall Jackson was born there?
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Mysteriously while on his way to Wshington to tstify before Congress.
West Virginia?
No one has attempted to answer my #75 yet, about the first president to have ridden in a motor vehicle. I gave the hint that he did not know it; a further hint is that he was unconscious.
What is the more common name of Gitchee Gumee? Lake Superior
How did Meriwether Lewis die?
Who replaced MacArthur in Korea after Truman relieved him of his command? Matthew Ridgeway
What current US state didn’t exist as a state when Stonewall Jackson was born there? West Virginia
What infamous pirate and smuggler was a friend to Andrew Jackson, and assisted the US in the defense of New Orleans during the War of 1812? Jean Lafite
In what present-day state was the golden stake driven, symbolically completing construction of the transcontinental railroad? Promontory Summit, Utah
No one has attempted to answer my #75 yet, about the first president to have ridden in a motor vehicle. I gave the hint that he did not know it; a further hint is that he was unconscious.
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Hmm- never heard of this before–but I will guess that it was William McKinley being taken for treatment before he died, after being shot.
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All correct, 5 time champ"Mysteriously" is not a cause of death. (Conspiracy theorist!) But you’re right about him being on his way to Washington.
92. William McKinley was shot at the Pan American Exposition in which US city?
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But you’re right about him being on his way to Washington.