CLAIMS TO FAME

Match each person on the left with his or her accomplishment - as listed in the choices below. (The matched accomplishment may not necessarily reflect the person's other "claims to fame.")

1. Gertrude Ederle

2. Arthur Wynne

3. Anna M. Jarvis

4. Momofuku Ando

5. Thomas Edison

6. Thomas Jefferson

7. Benjamin Franklin 

8. William Howard Taft

CHOICES:

a. Invented swim paddles and swim fins

b. Held over 1,000 patents

c. Read Plato's Republic in the original Greek

d. First woman to swim the English Channel

e. Invented Mother's Day

f. Invented the crossword puzzle

g. Invented the seventh inning stretch

h. Invented instant noodles (Ramen)

Answers:

 

1. d

2. f

3. e

4. h

5. b

6. c

7. a

8. g