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Hint		Answer	% Correct
First man to step on the moon.	1969	Neil Armstrong	91%
First woman to win a Nobel Prize.	1903	Marie Curie	78%
First person to fly solo across the Atlantic.	1927	Charles Lindbergh	72%
First person to reach the summit of Mt. Everest and return safely. He achieved this together with Tenzing Norgay.	1953	Sir Edmund Percival Hillary	65%
First person to orbit the earth in a spacecraft.	1961	Yuri Gagarin	52%
First person to win five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles.	1980	Bjorn Borg	44%
First person to reach the South Pole.	1911	Roald Amundsen	42%
First man to run a mile in under four minutes.	1954	Roger Bannister	37%
First person to sign the US Declaration of Independence	1776	John Hancock	34%
First British Monarch crowned in the 20th Century.	1901	Edward VII	30%
First US President to die in office.	1841	William Henry Harrison	30%
First woman to win an Indy car race.	2008	Danica Patrick	27%
First person to use a "back first" style of high jump at an Olympic Games.	1968	Richard "Dick" Fosbury	27%
First person to travel faster than the speed of sound.	1947	Chuck Yeager	24%
First person to perform a successful human heart transplant.	1967	Christiaan Barnard	23%
First person to rediscover the tomb of Tutankhamun.	1921	Howard Carter	23%
First portrait of a woman to be pictured on a US postage stamp.	1902	Martha Washington	23%
First woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director.	2009	Kathryn Bigelow	19%
First British Prime Minister (although the term wasn't officially used then)	1721	Sir Robert Walpole	19%
First person to cross the Antarctic Circle.	1773	James Cook	14%
First professional football (soccer) player to be knighted.	1964	Sir Stanley Matthews	11%
First person to win five consecutive Tour de France cycle races.	1995	Miguel Indurain	10%
First 'Test Tube' baby.	1978	Louise Brown	8%
First man to cycle through the Channel Tunnel.	2014	Chris Froome	6%
First Formula One World Drivers' Champion	1950	Emilio Giuseppe "Nino" Farina	5%
First person to swim the English Channel unaided.	1875	Matthew Webb	4%
First person to discover the wreck of the Titanic.	1985	Robert Ballard	4%
First person to propose the "Big Bang" theory for how the universe began.	1931	Georges Lemaître	3%
First recipient of a "gold record" award for music sales.	1942	Glenn Miller	3%
First person to 'rediscover' Macchu Pichu, the 'lost city of the Incas'.	1911	Hiram Bingham	3%
First woman to fly solo around the world,	1964	Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock	1%
First man to cross the Niagara Falls on a tightrope.	1859	Jean François "Blondin" Gravelet	1%
First person to die in a crash of a powered aeroplane.	1908	Thomas Selfridge	1%
First female individual Olympic champion.	1900	Charlotte Cooper	0%
First woman to ride in and complete the Grand National horse race.	1982	Geraldine Rees	0%