Which came first?

The directions are simple. You are given two choices, and you guess which had an earlier origin.

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1. The...

Chicken, or the... ✓

Egg ✓

Amniotic eggs have existed in reptiles well before chickens evolved

2. The...

Animal, or the... ✓

Plant ✓

Green plants, which is usually what someone means when they say "plant", evoled 400 million years before animals.

3. The planet...

Jupiter, or the... ✓

Earth ✓

Jupiter was the first planet in the solar system to form

4. The religion...

Buddhism, or... ✓

Christianity ✓

Buddhism: 5th century BC; Chistianty: 1st century AD

5. The invention of the...

Microscope, or the... ✓

Hot air balloon ✓

Microscope: ~1590; Hot air balloon: 1786

6. The...

Triassic, or the... ✓

Jurassic ✓

7. The show...

SpongeBob Squarepants, or... ✓

The Simpsons ✓

SpongeBob first aired in 1999; The Simpsons aired in 1989.

8. The domestication of the...

Bee, or the... ✓

Cat ✓

The bee was domesticated around 8000 BC; the cat around 7500 BC.

9. The...

Bird, or... ✓

Grass ✓

Archaeopteryx, which is often considered the first bird, existed 40 million years before the first grasses.

10. The discovery of...

Titanium, or... ✓

Uranium ✓

Uranium: 1789; Titanium: 1791

11. The website...

4Chan, or... ✓

Wikipedia ✓

Wikipedia: 2001; 4Chan: 2003

12. The American president...

Grover Cleveland, or... ✓

Benjamin Harrison ✓

Ceveland's first term: 1885-89; Harisson's term: 1889-93

13. The founding of...

North Korea, or... ✓

South Korea ✓

South Korea gained independence a month before the north

14. The publishing of...

The Communist Manifesto, or... ✓

On the Origin of Species ✓

The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848; On the Origin of Species in 1859

15. The continent...

Gondwana, or... ✓

Pangea ✓

Pangea formed from a merger of Gondwana, Siberia and Laurasia

16. The extinction of the...

Mammoth, or the... ✓

Mastodon ✓

The mastodon went extinct 7300 years before the mammoth.

17. The first writings of...

Latin, or... ✓

Arabic ✓

Old Arabic dates back to 800 BC, 100 years before Latin

18. The launching of...

The Internation Space Station, or... ✓

Voyager 1 ✓

Voyager 1 was launched 2 decades before the ISS

19. The...

Metric system, or the... ✓

Imperial system ✓

The metric system was first officialy adopted in 1799, but the "Exchequer Standards", their original name, weren't adopted until 1824

20. The release of...

Toy Story, or... ✓

Independence Day ✓

Toy Story released in 1995, a year before Independence Day

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