Multiple choice general knowledge

. Who started "Poor Richard's Almanac" in 1732, helped draw up the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution and invented the lightning conductor?

  1. Benjamin Franklin

  2. John Hancock

  3. Thomas Jefferson

  4. John Adams
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Benjamin Franklin began publishing 'Poor Richard's Almanack' in 1732 under the pseudonym Richard Saunders. He was a key figure in drafting both the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the U.S. Constitution (1787). His famous kite experiment proved lightning was electrical, leading to the invention of the lightning rod. Franklin was a polymath - statesman, scientist, inventor, and writer.

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