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Famous Firsts #3 - The United States

Guess these American people, places, and things that came first.
One question from Wolfcam's First Person quiz
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Last updated: September 13, 2018
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First submittedMay 27, 2018
Times taken7,078
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U.S. State
Delaware
Team to win the Super Bowl
Green Bay Packers
Black Major League player
(modern era)
Jackie Robinson
Signer of the U.S.
Declaration of Independence
John Hancock
National park
Yellowstone
College in the U.S.
Harvard
City to have a Starbucks
Seattle
American to orbit Earth
John Glenn
Permanent English colony in
North America
Jamestown
Woman to fly solo across
the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart
College football bowl game
Rose Bowl
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Catholic U.S. President
John F. Kennedy
"American Idol" winner
Kelly Clarkson
Person with a net worth
over $1 billion
John D. Rockefeller
Person with a net worth
over $100 billion
Jeff Bezos
African-American woman with a
net worth over $1 billion
Oprah Winfrey
Female Supreme Court justice
Sandra Day O'Connor
Black Supreme Court justice
Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Civil War battle
Battle of Fort Sumter
Person to assassinate a
U.S. President
John Wilkes Booth
American woman in space
Sally Ride
U.S. city to host the Olympics
St. Louis
kapulani3
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Level 71
May 27, 2018
I don't know much about sports but I actually would have gotten the first super bowl correct (shockingly) if I had said Packers instead of just Green Bay. Bummer.
jm
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Level 77
Nov 4, 2018
That was my first answer too - should be city or team, in my opinion.
ander217
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Level 78
Nov 4, 2018
I tried Green Bay first, also, but I knew it was the correct answer because I watched it with my dad. (We could only get one TV channel back then - CBS - so I had no choice.) Because of that I realized I had to add Packers, but I agree, city or team should be enough. BTW, it wasn't called the Super Bowl then, only the AFL-NFL championship game.
cpgatbyu
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Level 81
May 29, 2018
I put "First Battle of Bull Run", because I wasn't sure that Fort Sumter was big enough to be considered a battle. Zero casualties? May all battles be thus.
buck1017
+2
Level 73
Jun 4, 2018
That's pretty commonly taught that the battle of Ft. Sumpter was really what kicked off the US civil war. Casualties or not, it was obviously an important event that changed American history.
Algernon
+1
Level 70
Jun 10, 2018
12 out of 22, happy enough with that as a Brit. I have no idea on American sport or American Idol (I couldn't tell you the UK idol equivalent either).

Interesting quiz though.

emanroga
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Level 61
Aug 4, 2018
Agree with kapulani3, you should accept "Green Bay".
jmellor13
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Level 66
Nov 4, 2018
I agree. I think the city should be enough if a given sport only has one team in that city, *especially* Green Bay because the only reason most people know it exists is that the Packers play there.
roadrage
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Level 65
Nov 4, 2018
I was guessing Olympics host cities and got the answer for Starbucks.
cornflakesfu
+1
Level 82
Nov 4, 2018
Ah yes, the St. Louis Olympics. The one that was so bad, they almost stopped having them. https://www.thesportsbank.net/history/dumbest-worst-olympics-event-ever-1904-st-louis-marathon/
EytanMelech
+1
Level 67
Nov 5, 2018
I thought the lost colony of Roanoke was the first English settlement in North America
benzeller
+2
Level 61
Nov 5, 2018
The question says the first permanent settlement, which doesn't count Roanoke because it, obviously, wasn't permanent.
vitriden
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Level 73
Feb 2, 2021
Hmmm, according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_Grace), Harbour Grace in Canada would be the first permanent English settlement in North America, established even before Roanoke.
JWC1202
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Level 70
Nov 5, 2018
It is, perhaps, worth noting that the distinction of first permanent English settlement in the New World nearly fell to St. John's, Newfoundland. Explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert declared it as such in 1583, but was subsequently lost at sea, and so plans to settle the area were delayed until after 1620. Canada foiled again!
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Jun 14, 2019
got yellowstone, harvard, oprah and earhart and seriously allways used to think she was british, her being american hadnt even crossed my mind.

I would ve expected the scores to be much higher though, this being an all american quiz. With reasonably significant questions.

jayrod
+1
Level 84
Sep 11, 2020
I am both shocked and impressed that I got them all.
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