| First Person To... | Person | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| ...stand on the Moon | Neil Armstrong | 98%
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| ...reach the peak of Mount Everest | Edmund Hillary | Tenzing Norgay | 73%
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| ...be assassinated while serving as US President | Abraham Lincoln | 67%
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| ...win two Nobel Prizes | Marie Curie | 58%
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| ...see a moon of Jupiter | Galileo Galilei | 56%
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| ...land in the Americas (from Europe) | Leif Erikson | 44%
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| ...serve as Prime Minister of India | Jawaharlal Nehru | 25%
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| ...serve as Prime Minister of Great Britain (de facto) | Robert Walpole | 17%
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| ...formulate a principle relating to buoyancy | Archimedes | 15%
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| ...rule for over 70 years | Louis XIV | 15%
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| ...rule over all of modern Japan | Emperor Meiji | 8%
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| ...rule over an area of 2,100,000 square miles | Darius I | 6%
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| ...reach Challenger Deep | Jacques Piccard | Don Walsh | 4%
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| ...observe a microorganism | Robert Hooke | 2%
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| ...survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel | Annie Edson Taylor | 0%
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