"Indeed," George Washington wrote in his diary in 1985, "some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home." But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lighining-bug . But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Althoug fan became the usual term. sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseballbugs, and the like.

Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, "to install an alarm". Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others' conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant "to cheat", and since the 1940s it has been annoying.

We also know the bug as a _ in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as "little problems and difficulties" that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison "had been up the two previous nights discovering 'a bug' in his invented record player."

1. Who said bugs were eating the plants?
2. What was he also known as?
3. Was somebody already using that word before him?
4. Who?
5. What glowing bug had Americans named?
6. In the 19th and 20th centuries?
7. When did someone find a bug in his record player?
8. Who?
9. How long did it take him to find it?
10. Since when has bug meant to cheat?
11. A hundred years later, what did it mean?
12. Could a lunatic be referred to as a bug?
13. Did the English stop using the word?
14. What's an object you could call a bug?
15. Did they call baseball fans bugs?
16. In what year did he start being used like a computer glitch?
17. When did Washing write about bugs in his diary?
18. What sort of alarm was called a bug?
19. Was something to eavesdrop with known as a bug?
20. How was it used to describe a car?
1. George Washington
2. father of America
3. Yes
4. Englishmen
5. lighining-bug
6. Yes
7. 1889
8. Edison
9. two previous nights
10. 1840s
11. annoying
12. No
13. Yes
14. small machine
15. Yes
16. 1878
17. 1985
18. burglar alarm
19. Yes.
20. unknown