Statistics for Historical Firsts

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Who were the first people to make a powered flight?	Wright brothers	91%
Who became the first woman to single handedly fly across the Atlantic?	Amelia Earhart	89%
Who became the first European from a major power to land in the Americas?	Christopher Columbus	87%
Who became the first person to reach the summit of Everest?	Sir Edmund Hillary	82%
Who became the first person to win 2 Nobel prizes?	Marie Curie	78%
Who became the first person to fly in outer space?	Yuri Gagarin	69%
Who became the first person to reach the South Pole?	Roald Amundsen	64%
Who became the first footballer to score 1,000 goals?	Pele	62%
Who was the star of the first talking movie?	Al Jolson	22%
Who invented the first reflecting telescope?	Sir Isaac Newton	22%
Who became the first person to cross the Antarctic circle?	Captain James Cook	7%
Which US runner became the first to run 100M in under 10 seconds?	Jim Hines	2%