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Famous Firsts #3 - The United States

Guess these American people, places, and things that came first.

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Last updated: September 13, 2018

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First...	Answer
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

First...	Answer
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

level 69

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.

level 66

Nov 4, 2018

That was my first answer too - should be city or team, in my opinion.

ander217

level 74

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

level 75

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

level 72

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

level 67

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

level 56

Aug 4, 2018

Agree with kapulani3, you should accept "Green Bay".

jmellor13

level 58

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

level 54

Nov 4, 2018

I was guessing Olympics host cities and got the answer for Starbucks.

cornflakesfu

level 76

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/

ItsDaBunnyYT

level 41

Nov 5, 2018

I thought the lost colony of Roanoke was the first English settlement in North America

benzeller

level 57

Nov 5, 2018

The question says the first permanent settlement, which doesn't count Roanoke because it, obviously, wasn't permanent.

JWC1202

level 61

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!