Question: The Manhattan Project was started by President Roosevelt in 1942 to ensure that the U.S. beat the Germans in developing a nuclear bomb. Whom did Roosevelt appoint as scientific head the Manhattan Project?
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Correct Answer Leslie R. Groves, however, was the military head of the project and the overall supremo, while Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director. The world's first atomic bomb was exploded in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945.
Question: This African-American woman physical therapist worked with soldiers disabled in World War II. She invented a device that helped the disabled to eat by delivering food through a tube to a mouthpiece.
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Correct Answer Unfortunately Blount could never get anyone to buy her invention. Finally, in 1952 she sold the rights to the French government.
Question: William Frederick is credited with the invention of the modern frisbee in the mid 1950's. In 1957 the Wham-O Company bought his idea and the rest is history. They named the toy after William Frisbie who was a ________?
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Correct Answer Frisbie made a brand of pies that were popular with Yale students in the 1870's. After eating the pies they would throw the pie tins through the air.
Question: Who is the only U.S. President to invent and patent something?
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Correct Answer In 1849 Honest Abe invented a method to aid ships that got stuck on sandbars. He called it A Device for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals. It was never used.
Question: Who was the first American female to patent her invention, a method of weaving straw with silk?
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Correct Answer Mary was not the first American woman inventor to be sure, there were many female inventors before her, but they never bothered to get a patent.
