Questions

From the given options, Though is the only word which gives sense for the sentence. Hence, Though pompous he was an entertaining person.

A filament is a metal wire that glows when electricity is channeled into it. The filament of an electric bulb is made of Tunsten. 

Because of its high melting point and its greatest tensile strength, it makes for a good filament in light bulbs.

The Farmers Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in 1875.

One of the goals of the organization was to end the adverse effects of the crop-lien system on farmers in the period following the American Civil War.

The Farmer's Alliance moved into politics in the early 1890s under the banner of the People's Party, commonly known as the "Populists."