Questions:
1) Born this date in 1935, she was the first woman nominated for Vice President by a major U.S. political party. Who was she?
2) What color is the most popular in hospital recovery rooms?
3) Dr. Lee DeForest was born today in 1873.You may not recognize his name, but his invention made possible technology that remains in everyday household use today. What did he invent?
Answers:
1) Geraldine Ferraro
2) Mint green, supposedly for its effect of causing minimal eye strain.
3) The three element vacuum tube. Though transistors are much smaller and everything is digital now, neither the television nor radio would have been possible without the vacuum tube.
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