Wednesday 8th February 2023
Difficulty: Medium
Hedy Lamarr (Quiz #82)
Publicity photo for the film "The Heavenly Body", 1944 (Public domain)
Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor.
1. Lamarr's first film, Ecstasy, made in 1933, was banned in several jurisdictions because of its nudity and sex scenes. What did her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, reportedly spend $280,000 doing?
2. During WWII, Lamarr and pianist George Antheil invented a "frequency-hopping" system to prevent a radio-controlled torpedo's guidance system from being jammed. Although the system was never put into production, its principles are used today in...what?
3. Which of these is NOT named after Hedy Lamarr?
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