Except that those people come from cultures where people are identified by their family names, not by their given names. 'Tenzing Norgay' wasn't his birth name, it was a name he was given later and has a specific meaning (which I can't remember off the top of my head), so neither 'Tenzing' nor 'Norgay' are his given or family names. He was often referred to as 'Sherpa Tenzing', so I reckon Tenzing should be accepted as well :o)
Also, Kathmandu airport is called Tenzing-Hillary, so I think it would be fair to think that people who know Hillary could think of Tenzing and not Norgay.
I think Washington is in some ways not the first president... I do not know much about this matter, but isn't he the first president since a change in the constitution?
but... not presidents of the United States. And not a chief executive. Though the name of the title is similar the two offices don't have much else in common. The president of the Continental Congress had almost no power at all.
Why make a relevant comment that people might gain something from reading when you could passive aggressively snipe at someone you have a silly gripe with?
^ .. you are *still* doing this? Seriously? It has been *months* that you are copy/pasting this quote, which when originally written made perfect sense, but every time you have pasted it has made none. Is it really so important for you that everyone know that you are too thick to discern the difference between relevant comment and passive aggressive sniping? I have no gripe with "What." I'm not following him around posting nasty things directed at him. I'm responding to his comment with relevant information. Can we please get that block feature up and running QM? Pretty please?
someone else above had commented that there were other presidents.. of... things.. the Continental Congress, I think, and perhaps other things. But these presidents never held the title of President of the United States of America.
And, significantly, there have been no radical changes to the US Constitution since its ratification in 1788, only amendments, making it the oldest living still-in-use constitution in the world by a comfortable margin. The American Revolution ended in 1783. George Washington was elected first American president in 1789. Between 1781 and 1789 the 13 colonies/states were largely independent from one another, though they did send representatives to Congress. Though there were "presidents" of Congress before the adoption of the US Constitution, they were not chief executives of a unified country the way that Washington was. If interested, read about it here. Pretty cut and dry.
Realistically the Everest ascent was made possible by a great team of climbers and a couple of hundred sherpas....... the two to the top were just the pair chosen to do the last little hop!
I kind of doubt Hilary was part of a lucky pair to be chosen. It was his trip. No one else of the 200 would've bothered to go on their own or all together in a group without him.
this question about everest really shouldn’t be in this quiz if there are two of them imo. i understand they did it together so you can’t pick one, but in that case leave out the category altogether and get another one of the many hundreds of others you could have
I kind of doubt Hilary was part of a lucky pair to be chosen. It was his trip. No one else of the 200 would've bothered to go on their own or all together in a group without him.
This isn't true. It was Sir John Hunt's expedition, deputy-led by Charles Evans; and within that expedition, Hillary and Tenzing weren't even the first climbing pair to assault the summit, but the second.
Now, neither Tenzing nor Hillary were "just" lucky; they were the strongest climbers on the team.
Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth but Gagarin became both the first human to travel into space, and the first to orbit the earth, beating John Glenn by over 10 months.
John Glenn wasn't even the second person to orbit the Earth. That was actually cosmonaut Gherman Titov on Vostok 2 on August 6, 1961. He completed 17 orbits and spent more than a full day in space (and was the first person to vomit in space, too!) John Glenn was actually third, completing three orbits on February 20, 1962.
I knew it, but for some reason this morning I couldn't spell it. Must have tried six or seven times before finally giving up. Gugarin, Gegarin, Gregarin...
After a little reading, I see that this obscure little fact is true. Nelson's Bond was a television character, and he was (gasp) an American spy. Adding "in film" to the clue should correct it. That is how it is shown on Connery's Wikipedia page.
I typed in Barry Nelson and was chagrined to find it was not the answer, or even an acceptable alternate answer. Nitpicking, maybe. But the question/answer needs a fix.
Looking back at the other answers, I'm not surprised. Not to take anything away from Chuck, but the other things on here generally have more historical significance than breaking the sound barrier. Plus I'm guessing he's not well-known outside the U.S.
Without breaking the sound barrier there would have been no moon landing. It was of major historical significance and was rightly branded as so when I was growing up in the '50s and '60s, but it paved the way to so many more historical feats in more recent history that its importance is no longer recognized as it should be. As samiamco said, apparently more people should watch "The Right Stuff" for perspective. I still remember hearing the sonic booms when I was growing up. They frightened people at first, and the first time my aunt heard one she thought my cousin had fallen out of the barn loft. To say we've come a long way is an understatement, but that doesn't lessen the significance of what Yeager did, or all those pilots before him who died trying.
Except that the sound barrier is not about some arbitrary speed to get past, it's a point at which the physical effects of drag makes it very difficult to continue accelerating. You quite literally can't take a regular subsonic plane and just give it more and more powerful engines; it'll either not be able to push past the speed of sound, or it'll get torn apart in the attempt. The very specific technological and design improvements that allowed aircraft to safely travel faster than sound did indeed represent a very particular and important milestone in aviation.
@ander217 - interestingly enough, his feat was a state secret and not revealed until some later. And even though we look upon it as a great milestone, Sputnik, Glenn, and the moon landing are the milestones we remember from history. I don't know how it happened, but John Glenn even overshadows Alan Shepherd.
They circumnavigated the Earth, but they didn't orbit it. An orbit specifically means a body revolving around an attracting center of mass. While Magellan and his crew were held onto the Earth by gravity, that was not the main force behind their trajectory.
Is there some dispute about whether Lindbergh made the first transatlantic flight? I only ask because the question is so specifically worded as the first to go "from New York to Paris." I always learned he was just the first person to fly solo from mainland North America to mainland Europe (i.e., "transatlantic"). The inclusion of the cities suggests to me that the clue had to be worded that way to avoid disputes over who actually flew across the Atlantic first, but I've never heard of anyone before Lindbergh.
As Roleybob mentioned above, there was an American actor who played Bond in 1954, knew there was one but couldn't remember the name, but I do remember in the mid 50's, there was a Bond tale as a radio play, and Bond was played by a guy called Bob Holness, who later went on to present a British television youth quiz show called Blockbusters
And don't forget Bob Simmons who played Bond at the very beginning of Dr No. (and the next two films) in the gun barrel sequence where he shoots at the camera. Arguably just a stunt double, but he's fairly often included in lists of people to portray Bond where other stuntmen aren't.
Strictly speaking, I believe the Christian interpretation is that God is a person, so technically he would be the first in the Bible. Adam would be the first *human* person.
I love that one of the most established historical figures still can get questioned...There are no facts after all, only discourse
I kind of doubt Hilary was part of a lucky pair to be chosen. It was his trip. No one else of the 200 would've bothered to go on their own or all together in a group without him.
This isn't true. It was Sir John Hunt's expedition, deputy-led by Charles Evans; and within that expedition, Hillary and Tenzing weren't even the first climbing pair to assault the summit, but the second.
Now, neither Tenzing nor Hillary were "just" lucky; they were the strongest climbers on the team.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_run_world_record_progression
Incidentally, one of only two Bond films I've actually seen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orteig_Prize