What hard-throwing major league pitcher named his firstborn son Gehrig after baseball great Lou Gehrig?
- Curt Schilling, in 1995. Later that year Schilling received the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award, given to players who display character and integrity both on and off the field.
What weapon was invented by and named for retired World War I Brigadier General John Taliaferro Thompson?
- The Tommy gun. More formally known as the Thompson submachine gun, it was the first handheld machine gun.











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