Statistics for Famous Firsts - United Kingdom

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First female prime minister	Margaret Thatcher	99%
First university	Oxford	88%
First actor to play James Bond	Sean Connery	74%
The first ever vaccine treated this disease	Smallpox	69%
First wife of Henry VIII	Catherine of Aragon	64%
First postage stamp	Penny Black	50%
First official queen regnant	Mary I	41%
First prime minsiter	Sir Robert Walpole	39%
First actor to play Doctor Who	William Hartnell	27%
First bridge made of cast iron	The Iron Bridge	26%
First singer to win Eurovision	Sandie Shaw	23%
First building to overtake the Great Pyramid as world's tallest building	{Lincoln} Cathedral	15%
First football team	Sheffield F.C.	11%
First Shakespeare play performed	Henry VI Part 2	7%
Inventor of first steam locomotive	Richard Trevithick	2%
First woman elected to Westminster Parliament	Constance Markievicz	0%
First book published in English	The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye	0%