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These people straddle the fine line between fame and obscurity.

Obscure Fame: Answers

Some of these inventions made the world better. Others arguably did a lot of damage. That chemist from Beaver Falls was a menace. Not only did he punch a hole in the ozone layer, but he added lead to gasoline. Some people should not be allowed in labs.

Here are the matches.

InventorInvention
  1. Mary Phelps Jacob, New York socialite
  2. George Beauchamp, Texas musician
  3. Jean and Alastair Carruthers, Canadian ophthalmologists
  4. Eugene Polley, radar engineer
  5. Louis Reard, French car engineer
  6. Carl Djerassi, Bulgarian-American chemist, novelist, and playwright
  7. Jules Leotard, French acrobat
  8. Thomas Midgley, Pennsylvania chemist
  9. Ruth Handler, US businesswoman
  10. Reginald Denny, British actor
  1. Bra
  2. Electric guitar
  3. Botox
  4. TV remote
  5. Bikini
  6. Birth control pill
  7. Flying trapeze
  8. Chlorofluorocarbons
  9. Barbie doll
  10. Military drone

Now that you know all this, what are you going to do with the information? Offhand, we'd say, er, nothing. Maybe it will help with your next pub quiz. You could offer this list to Wikileaks, but they'd probably just laugh at you.

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