Scientists, astronomers, Inventors, Explorera

Question 1

Buckminster Fuller

Answer 1

“Bucky” (1895-1983)

American architect, systems theorist, inventor, futurist

Popularized the geodesic dome; buckyball; founded Dymaxion corporation

Carbon molecules known as fullerenes names after him for similarity to geodesic domes

Second world president of Mensa

Question 2

Robert Fulton

Answer 2

American engineer and inventor (1765-1815)

Developed commercially successful steamboat

Also commissioned by Napoleon in 1800 to design Nautilus, first practical submarine, and torpedoes for Brits

Steamboat was called “The North River SteAmboat of Clemonts”

Question 3

Sir Francis Drake

Answer 3

Elizabethan sea captain and explorer (1540-1596)

Second circumnavigation of the world, changed his ship’s name from Pelican to the Golden Hind

claimed California for the British and fought Spanish on West Coast (called CA / San Francisco “New Albion”)

In 1573 raises a mule train across the Isthmus of Panama

Second in command in battle against Spanish Armada (1588)

Mayor of Plymouth, where he departed on his last voyage

Spanish saw him as a pirate, “El Draque”

Question 4

Name of Sir Francis Drake’s ship

Answer 4

First called the Pelican, then the Golden Hind

Question 5

Key battle where Sir Francis Drake was second-in-command

Answer 5

Fought off the Spanish Armada in 1588 when they tried to invade England

Question 6

Name of Robert Fulton’s steamboat and submarine (2)

Answer 6

Steamboat: The North River Steamboat of Clermonts

Submarine: Nautilus

Question 7

Charles Lindbergh

Answer 7

1902-1974, American aviator, explorer

Known for first transatlantic flight in 1927, in the monoplane Spirit of St Louis

Question 8

Name of Charles Lindbergh’s plane

Answer 8

Spirit of St Louis

Question 9

Anne Morrow

Answer 9

Charles Lindbergh’s wife, aviator and author