| About Ben Franklin | Answer |
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| Ben was born on January 17, 1706, in this Massachusetts city. | |
| He was the 15th of his father's 17 children. He was the 10th and _____est son. | |
| Ben was one of a group of men who framed and signed the Constitution. Historians collectively call this group the... | |
| A person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, 12 year old Ben worked for his brother James as one. | |
| Franklin was an ______; two items he devised were bifocals and a unique fireplace known as the Franklin stove. | |
| Franklin invented this device to prevent fires and damage to buildings during an electrical storm. | |
| He studied languages, learning French, Spanish, Latin, and this other one. | |
| Ben's brother James started 'The New England Courant' which was this type of daily publication; in 1729, Ben owned his own publication of this type. | |
| Franklin served as the sixth President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. The council was later abolished, and the president was replaced with this elected official. | |
| He conducted experiments on the principle of refrigeration using a mercury _______, ether, and bellows. | |
| Franklin analyzed the best routes for delivering mail by fashioning this mileage reading device and attaching it to his carriage wheels. | |
| In 1723, at 17, Ben ran away to this city, where he eventually helped establish many community programs. | |
| His publication, 'Poor ______'s Almanack' contained many of Franklin's proverbs and witticisms. | |
| In addition to writer and publisher, Franklin also had this job, which is to be in charge of and to determine the final content of a publication. | |
| Silence Dogood is a name Franklin signed to letters he wrote to the newspaper. He often wrote under a false name, called a ___________. | |
| He served as the first U.S. __________ to France. | |
| Although he lived in London from 1757 to 1775, Franklin returned to America soon after this war began, and then served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress. | |
| Franklin conducted many experiments with this form of energy, including his lightning experiment, and was the first to discover the principle of conservation of charge. | |
| In 1753, this Ivy League university gave Franklin an honorary degree. | |
| This was another field of study for Franklin; he was intrigued by the North Atlantic circulation patterns, and he subsequently charted the current which he named the Gulf Stream. | |
| Motivated by his brother John's problems with bladder stones, Ben designed a flexible type of _______ catheter to replace the stiff ones of the time. | |
| Ben was an avid reader and an author of published works; he also wrote his own life story, which is called an.... | |
| Fanklin's maternal grandparents were Puritans who came to Massachusetts for ________ freedom to escape persecution. | |
| His mother, Abiah, was born in Massachusetts. In which country was his father, Josiah, born? | |
| When Ben first came to Pennsylvania, he found work as a _________. In 1728, he opened up his own shop where he produced materials such as pamphlets and books. | |
| Last name of Franklin's common law wife, Deborah. (It somehow seems appropriate for an author and lover of books.) | |
| Franklin's 1749 pamphlet, 'Proposals Relating to the ______ of Youth in Pensilvania', led to the founding of the Academy of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania). | |
| For almost 40 years, Ben was involved with colonial mail service. In 1775, he was appointed the 1st _______ General of the U.S., giving him authority over all of the post offices. | |
| In his later life, Ben made ________ of slavery his final project, writing a petition to Congress and serving as president of the Society for Promoting the _______ of Slavery. | |
| Franklin is often said to be a true '________ Man', a term used for a person who excels in a wide variety of subjects or fields. | |
| He helped draft the Declaration of ________. | |
| Franklin thought that the wild turkey would be better than the bald eagle as the ______ bird of the U.S. | |
| The paper that he owned and published was called 'The Pennsylvania _______'. | |
| Franklin was father to this many children (type number in word form). | |
| Franklin received an honorary doctorate from this university, the oldest in the English speaking world. | |
| Concerned about the safety of Philadelphians, in 1736 he organized the Union ____ Company, the first in the city. | |
| Franklin testified in the British Parliament against the Stamp ____ of 1765. | |
| Franklin composed music and played several _____, including the harp, violin, and guitar; he also invented a glass armonica. | |
| At a time when books were not widely available, he helped establish the public lending ________. | |
| NOW TAKE THE FIRST LETTER OF EACH ANSWER TO REVEAL ONE OF FRANKLIN'S MANY PHILOSOPHICAL WITTICISMS. | |
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