The following are stories and questions about them. Each story is followed by a question and answer to a given question.

Story: "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."

Question: Who said bugs were eating the plants?
Answer:George Washington

Question: What was he also known as?
Answer:father of America

Question: Was somebody already using that word before him?
Answer:Yes

Question: Who?
Answer:Englishmen

Question: What glowing bug had Americans named?
Answer:lighining-bug

Question: In the 19th and 20th centuries?
Answer:Yes

Question: When did someone find a bug in his record player?
Answer:1889

Question: Who?
Answer:Edison

Question: How long did it take him to find it?
Answer:two previous nights

Question: Since when has bug meant to cheat?
Answer:1840s

Question: A hundred years later, what did it mean?
Answer:annoying

Question: Could a lunatic be referred to as a bug?
Answer:No

Question: Did the English stop using the word?
Answer:Yes

Question: What's an object you could call a bug?
Answer:small machine

Question: Did they call baseball fans bugs?
Answer:Yes

Question: In what year did he start being used like a computer glitch?
Answer:1878

Question: When did Washing write about bugs in his diary?
Answer:1985

Question: What sort of alarm was called a bug?
Answer:
burglar alarm