Famous Firsts Top 50 Trivias
🏆 Trailblazer Challenge! Test Your Knowledge of Famous Firsts: Top 50 Trivia! From moon landings to medical breakthroughs, prove you know the pioneers who changed history!
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🏆 Trailblazer Challenge! Test Your Knowledge of Famous Firsts: Top 50 Trivia! From moon landings to medical breakthroughs, prove you know the pioneers who changed history!
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15 Questions
Answer:Neil Armstrong
Answer:New Zealand
Answer:George Washington
Answer:The Tale of Genji (by Murasaki Shikibu)
Answer:Barack Obama
Answer:Laika (the dog)
Answer:Margaret Thatcher
Answer:Smallpox vaccine (by Edward Jenner)
Answer:Charles Lindbergh
Answer:Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Answer:Marie Curie
Answer:V-2 rocket (1944, Germany)
Answer:Roald Amundsen
Answer:Wright Flyer (1903)
Answer:Vasco da Gama
20 Questions
Answer:Amelia Earhart
Answer:Penicillin (by Alexander Fleming)
Answer:Yuri Gagarin
Answer:University of Al Quaraouiyine (Morocco, 859 CE) – or University of Bologna (1088). Commonly: University of Bologna.
Answer:Sidney Poitier
Answer:Netherlands (2001)
Answer:Selma Lagerlöf (1909)
Answer:Tennis for Two (1958) or Pong (1972) – commonly Pong, but earlier: 'Tennis for Two'. I'll use: 'Tennis for Two'.
Answer:Edmund Hillary (and Tenzing Norgay)
Answer:View from the Window at Le Gras (Nicéphore Niépce, 1826)
Answer:Sandra Day O'Connor
Answer:Baseball (1939, a college game)
Answer:Edward VIII
Answer:Sputnik 1
Answer:Marie Curie (Physics 1903, Chemistry 1911)
Answer:Video Killed the Radio Star (The Buggles)
Answer:Jackie Robinson
Answer:Kidney transplant (1954, between twins)
Answer:Maryam Mirzakhani (2014)
Answer:Jamestown (1607)
15 Questions
Answer:Henri Becquerel (1903, shared with Marie and Pierre Curie)
Answer:Venezuela (1863)
Answer:Kushim (Sumerian scribe, c. 3400–3000 BCE)
Answer:The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan, 1678) or Robinson Crusoe (1719) – often 'Robinson Crusoe' is considered first English novel.
Answer:John Michell (1783)
Answer:Mauveine (William Perkin, 1856)
Answer:Margaret Thatcher (Conservative Party, 1975)
Answer:Finland (1990)
Answer:Chuck Yeager (1947)
Answer:Christiaan Barnard (1967, South Africa)
Answer:Mary I (1553–1558)
Answer:Action Comics #1 (Superman, 1938)
Answer:Alexander Graham Bell (1876)
Answer:Luna 2 (Soviet probe, hit the Moon in 1959)
Answer:Aretha Franklin (1987)