During my recent visit to Michigan, I chanced to drop by the Henry Ford Museum at Dearborn. Believe me, it is bursting its walls with proof of human resourcefulness and ingenuity. For every item you instantly recognise, there are umpteen others that make you stop and say, “What is that?”
On display are the George Washington’s camp bed, the rocking chair used by Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre the night he was shot and the car in which JFK was assassinated. You can step inside the bus in which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, breaking existing segregation law.
The moment you think you’ve seen it all, you’ll pick up an old- fashioned telephone receiver and hear Thomas Edison saying “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration!”
And, probably the most amazing of the repositories is Edison’s “last breath”, which is preserved in a test tube. It is an amazing testimony to a strangely beautiful friendship between two of history’s most famous titans.
Such was the case of Henry Ford and his idol Thomas Edison that they would go on camping trips together along with naturalist John Burroughs, Harvey Firestone of Firestone Tires and, occasionally, President Harding. They even bought houses next door to each other in Florida. When Edison, was confined to a wheelchair because of waning health, Ford bought one too, so they could race each other. 
It’s no surprise that Ford wanted something to remember Edison by after he passed away in 1931. As the legend goes, Ford went weird and asked Thomas Edison’s son Charles to sit by the dying inventor’s bedside and hold a test tube next to his father’s mouth to catch his final breath. Ford was a man with many eccentricities and some say that he was attempting to capture Edison’s soul as it escaped his body in hopes of later reanimating the inventor.
The truth of the story may be somewhat less intense, but has a fairly close resemblance to the legend. Based on letters from his son Charles, it’s more likely that this test tube was one of several that Charles Edison noticed standing open in a rack in the bedroom in which his father had just died. The attending physician was asked to seal the tubes, one of which Charles later sent on to Henry Ford who kept it with other Edison mementos at his home, Fair Lane.
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The only male-only core sports at the Commonwealth Games is Rugby 7s. Name the only female-only core sport.
Netball. 


The lamp-posts that line the highway leading to Doha’s Hamad International Airport are works of art, decorated with laser-cut stainless steel cladding. What is it inscribed with in Arabic calligraphy? 
Qatari national anthem.
Name the book-keeper who gave Coca-Cola the unique lettering style in 1896.
Frank Robinson. The official script logo was not used until 1887 where it was featured in adverts in an Atlanta newspaper. This script font went on to be known as ‘Spencerian’.


What is the painting ‘La Gioconda’ more usually known as?
The Mona Lisa.


If a carnivore eats meat, what does a frugivore eat?
Fruit


What colour jersey is worn by the winners of each stage of the Tour De France?
Yellow. At the end of each stage of the Tour de France, the cyclist with the FASTEST OVERALL time from the very start of the race gets to wear the famous Yellow Jersey. This is called the ‘Maillot Jaune’ in French.


How is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta famously known as?
Lady Gaga. Her stage name comes from Queen’s song Radio Ga Ga.


Dr Zamenhof invented an international language which means ‘one who hopes’. Name this language.
Esperanto. 
 
What is the claim to fame of Dennis Anthony Tito, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Wilshire Associates Incorporated?
He is the first space tourist to fund his own trip into space.
Identify the artist in the work below. He died this day in 1973 at the age of 91. 


(Answer next week. Last week’s answer to photo quiz: Greece Drachma.)