Based on my short cladistical analysis, Panthera tigris (Tiger) is more ancient than Panthera leo (Lion). This is due to lions being more steps away from the base of Panthera than tigers
True, but the Qaran isn't, so most people won't be able to compare the dates. Meanwhile whilst Dickens isn't as well studied as Shakespeare there have been enough adaptations of his books (Oliver, Christmas Carol etc.) that most people will know he's Victorian.
It makes sense. Insects are capable of existing without flowers, but most flowers can't function without insects. Flowers couldn't evolve if there were no insects already present.
I liked all of them except for the Armstrong/Davis question. They were born 25 years apart and died 20 years apart. You need to specifically know jazz history to know who came first among people who were alive at the same time.
right... because the authors of the Old Testament clearly knew a lot about radiation, ionized plasma and ancient cosmology and that's probably what they were referring to. Makes sense to bring this up in a conversation about the order that things appeared on planet Earth, too.
Easy - Quantum Mechanics. Sliced bread (in a package) wasn't invented until the late 1920's. Einstein wrote his four famous papers in 1905, which formed the foundation for general relativity, Brownian motion, quantum mechanics, and mass-energy equivalence. By 1924, quantum mechanics had been pretty well formalized into the set of ideas we still use to define it today (although, like any branch of science, it's grown quite a bit since then).
Brain Surgery. The first successful removal of a tumor from the brain was in 1887, and the first liquid fueled rocket was made by Robert Goddard in 1926.
"Very popular to some people" is a contradiction. Actually, the movie is a bit of a niche cult semi-classic for more or less recent generations. If that sounds very specific, it's cause it is. The movie is not really popular at all, except apparently here in Jetpunk, as I've seen it in quizzes more times than it merits.
I also had a flashback from that movie. On my part it is because we were taught in school in Finland, that the machine that flies is "aeroplane" (in Finnish it is lentokone, literally flying machine). When I was a child, word "Airplane" (with capital letter) was always connected to that movie, and I wondered, how it is written (and I of course thought that it is logical with word "air" as part of it). It was long before I learned about spelling differences in British and American English.
The photo is related to the first question. According to Google/ Wikipedia, it's from the Three Barons Renaissance Fair in Anchorage. File here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lady_at_Three_Barons_Renaissance_Fair_Anchorage_(IMG_7768a).jpg
(actually this will make it easier to remember for me)
and almost existed before insects but we're 50 million years away.
PS. Woman's photo on front page, in which question is she connected to?