RHS August 2021 Trivia

 

1. The first commercially successful home blender was financed by and later named for what famous American band leader?

Fred Waring [and his Pennsylvanians] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Waring#Waring_blender

2.What first radio announcer, later show host, and later TV presenter who was the announcer for "The Original Amateur Hour," and the second announcer for "The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour," and presenter of TV's "Truth or Consequences" created, produced, and hosted TV's "This is your Life"?

Ralph Edwards  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Edwards

3. Who was the New York State-born, originally Dutch-speaking slave who was the first black woman to win a court suit against a white defendant and who became a prominent Abolitionist and women's rights activist?

Isabel Baumtree aka Sojourner Truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth

4. Can you name the Vienna-born mathematician, American movie star, and inventor who improved traffic stoplights, influenced Howard Hughes' airplane designs, and devised frequency-hopping spread-spectrum communications to prevent German jamming of radio-controlled torpedoes [and which communications technology is critical in today's defense communication satellite networks]?

Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler aka Hedy Lamarr  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

5. What famous American author and wit became a close friend of Nikola Tesla [whose inventions made alternating current the basis of most electrical devices, creating the binary environment for electronic computing] and once while playing with a Tesla generator suddenly found his constipation relieved and who at times borrowed money from his friend Tesla?

Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain   https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/01/11/twain-and-tesla/