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Spartaculous wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:10 pm

wintergreen wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:09 pm

Free guess: Betsy Ross, who made the first US flag.

Beat me to it! I just found Scottish nobility in her first husband's ancestry.

Funnily enough I was thinking about her third husband.

Spartaculous wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:15 pm

Hominidae wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:10 pm

wintergreen wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:09 pm

Free guess: Betsy Ross, who made the first US flag.

You got it! (Well, whether she actually made the first US flag is a bit murky, but Betsy Ross is indeed the correct answer to this round.)

Another good pick by the QM.

Out of curiosity, obviously she is famous for politics/government; how would you have answered a straight-up "famous for inventing something" question?

I think I probably would have said "no" or maybe "pass" since there are probably a lot of people out there who think she invented the US flag.

However, I listened to a podcast episode that has some interesting information about Betsy Ross and the US flag, and makes a (tenuous, but plausible) case that she may have decided to give the US flag five-pointed rather than six-pointed stars, thereby popularizing that kind of star on heraldry around the world.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/flag-days-unfolding-a-moment/