Historic Firsts

1) Norse explorer who was the first European to set foot in North America around 1000 AD

2) Genoese explorer who is credited for "discovering" America, but landed in the Bahamas

3) Portuguese explorer whose expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe in 1522

4) Location of the first permanent English colony in America, est. in 1607 in present day Virginia

5) This country was the first to establish a colony in Brazil, claiming it for their own

6) English settlers on this ship established the first colony in Massachusetts in 1620

7) She was the first woman pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932

8) Brothers Orville and Wilbur were credited with inventing the first powered ______ in Kitty Hawk, NC

9) This physicist was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize

10) War general who was elected first president of the newly formed United States

11) She was the first woman Prime Minister of the UK, known as the Iron Lady

12) Famous author who was the first blind and deaf woman to receive a Bachelors Degree

13) First Black player to break the MLB color barrier in 1947

14) In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and local natives celebrated the first ________ feast

15) This famous jazz musician was the first Black woman to win a Grammy in 1959

16) This massive park was the first to be designated a National Park in the US in 1872

17) This Portuguese explorer was the first European to reach India by sea, around the Cape of Good Hope in 1498

18) In 1911, this Norwegian explorer was the first person to reach the South Pole

19) The first telescope was invented by this scientist in 1688

20) Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovered this as the first antibiotic in 1928

21) In 1896 Athens Greece held the first modern version of these famous games

22) Johannes Gutenberg invents the first ______ _____, which revolutionizes mass book production in 1440

23) This astronaut was the first to set foot on the moon, declaring it as a giant leap for mankind

24) She became the first queen of England, reigning from 1553-1558

25) First place to develop an early form of Democracy in the 5th century BC