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Who Did it First? - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 113 times
- The average score is 8 of 35
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| First man to step on the moon. | 1969 | Neil Armstrong | 91%
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| First woman to win a Nobel Prize. | 1903 | Marie Curie | 78%
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| First person to fly solo across the Atlantic. | 1927 | Charles Lindbergh | 70%
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| First person to reach the summit of Mt. Everest and return safely. He achieved this together with Tenzing Norgay. | 1953 | Sir Edmund Percival Hillary | 63%
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| First person to orbit the earth in a spacecraft. | 1961 | Yuri Gagarin | 51%
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| First person to reach the South Pole. | 1911 | Roald Amundsen | 44%
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| First person to win five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles. | 1980 | Bjorn Borg | 40%
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| First man to run a mile in under four minutes. | 1954 | Roger Bannister | 37%
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| First US President to die in office. | 1841 | William Henry Harrison | 36%
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| First British Monarch crowned in the 20th Century. | 1901 | Edward VII | 35%
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| First person to sign the US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | John Hancock | 35%
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| First person to travel faster than the speed of sound. | 1947 | Chuck Yeager | 28%
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| First woman to win an Indy car race. | 2008 | Danica Patrick | 25%
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| First person to use a "back first" style of high jump at an Olympic Games. | 1968 | Richard "Dick" Fosbury | 25%
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| First person to rediscover the tomb of Tutankhamun. | 1921 | Howard Carter | 24%
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| First portrait of a woman to be pictured on a US postage stamp. | 1902 | Martha Washington | 23%
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| First British Prime Minister (although the term wasn't officially used then) | 1721 | Sir Robert Walpole | 21%
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| First person to perform a successful human heart transplant. | 1967 | Christiaan Barnard | 20%
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| First woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director. | 2009 | Kathryn Bigelow | 17%
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| First person to cross the Antarctic Circle. | 1773 | James Cook | 12%
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| First person to win five consecutive Tour de France cycle races. | 1995 | Miguel Indurain | 11%
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| First professional football (soccer) player to be knighted. | 1964 | Sir Stanley Matthews | 11%
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| First 'Test Tube' baby. | 1978 | Louise Brown | 10%
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| First man to cycle through the Channel Tunnel. | 2014 | Chris Froome | 5%
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| First Formula One World Drivers' Champion | 1950 | Emilio Giuseppe "Nino" Farina | 4%
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| First person to propose the "Big Bang" theory for how the universe began. | 1931 | Georges Lemaître | 4%
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| First person to swim the English Channel unaided. | 1875 | Matthew Webb | 4%
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| First person to discover the wreck of the Titanic. | 1985 | Robert Ballard | 4%
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| First recipient of a "gold record" award for music sales. | 1942 | Glenn Miller | 3%
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| First person to 'rediscover' Macchu Pichu, the 'lost city of the Incas'. | 1911 | Hiram Bingham | 2%
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| First woman to fly solo around the world, | 1964 | Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock | 1%
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| First man to cross the Niagara Falls on a tightrope. | 1859 | Jean François "Blondin" Gravelet | 1%
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| First person to die in a crash of a powered aeroplane. | 1908 | Thomas Selfridge | 1%
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| First female individual Olympic champion. | 1900 | Charlotte Cooper | 0%
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| First woman to ride in and complete the Grand National horse race. | 1982 | Geraldine Rees | 0%
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