Meeting Famous People

2. One of the Founding Fathers and the second US president.
5. Composed over 600 works for all the musical genres of his day.
6. Physicist and chemist who invented the electric battery and discovered methane.
8. Contributed inventions such as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera.
9. Physicist, cosmologist, and author who studied black holes.
11. Known for her extensive research on the chimpanzees of Tanzania.
13. Invented the first working telephone in 1876.
14. Proved Hitler wrong by breaking world records at the 1936 Olympic games.
15. Developed the assembly line technique to make mass production possible.
18. Brilliant physicist who developed the theory of relativity.
19. Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross.
20. Escape artist whose real name was Erich Weisz.

1. Has been called the "father of observational astronomy".
3. Guide and interpreter for Lewis & Clark on their famous expedition.
4. Polish physicist and chemist who discovered radium and polonium.
7. Broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
10. Pioneer and author of the "Little House on the Prairie" book series.
11. Used nonviolent resistance to help gain India's independence from British Rule.
12. Singer, songwriter and peace activist who was most famous for being a member of the Beatles.
16. Painted the Mona Lisa and developed many science and engineering ideas in his notebook.
17. Abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
18. The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.