Historic Firsts - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
7) She was the first woman pilot to fly solo across theAtlantic in 1932	Amelia Earhart	100%
2) Genoese explorer who is credited for"discovering" America, but landed in the Bahamas	Christopher Columbus	100%
8) Brothers Orville and Wilbur were credited withinventing the first powered ______ in Kitty Hawk, NC	Airplane	94%
10) War general who was elected first presidentof the newly formed United States	George Washington	94%
11) She was the first woman Prime Minister of theUK, known as the Iron Lady	Margaret Thatcher	94%
6) English settlers on this ship established the first colony in Massachusetts in 1620	Mayflower	94%
5) This country was the first to establish a colonyin Brazil, claiming it for their own	Portugal	94%
3) Portuguese explorer whose expedition was thefirst to circumnavigate the globe in 1522	Ferdinand Magellan	89%
12) Famous author who was the first blind and deafwoman to receive a Bachelors Degree	Helen Keller	89%
23) This astronaut was the first to set foot on the moon,declaring it as a giant leap for mankind	Neil Armstrong	89%
21) In 1896 Athens Greece held the first modern versionof these famous games	Olympics	89%
22) Johannes Gutenberg invents the first ______ _____,which revolutionizes mass book production in 1440	Printing Press	89%
9) This physicist was the first woman to receivethe Nobel Prize	Marie Curie	83%
20) Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovered this asthe first antibiotic in 1928	Penicillin	83%
14) In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and local nativescelebrated the first ________ feast	Thanksgiving	83%
16) This massive park was the first to be designateda National Park in the US in 1872	Yellowstone	83%
25) First place to develop an early form of Democracy inthe 5th century BC	Athens	78%
4) Location of the first permanent English colony in America, est. in 1607 in present day Virginia	Jamestown	78%
17) This Portuguese explorer was the first Europeanto reach India by sea, around the Cape of Good Hope in 1498	Vasco De Gama	78%
24) She became the first queen of England, reigning from1553-1558	Mary	72%
13) First Black player to break the MLB color barrierin 1947	Jackie Robinson	61%
1) Norse explorer who was the first Europeanto set foot in North America around 1000 AD	Leif Erikson	61%
18) In 1911, this Norwegian explorer was the firstperson to reach the South Pole	Roald Amundsen	61%
15) This famous jazz musician was the first Black womanto win a Grammy in 1959	Ella Fitzgerald	22%
19) The first telescope was invented by this scientist in 1688	Issac Newton	0%

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