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Hard Famous Firsts 2 Trivia
Jennifer Curtis
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Copyright 1996, Softdisk Publishing
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Famous Firsts 2
Hard
4
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$QUEST
The first black cabinet member was:
Robert C. Weaver
Clifton R. Wagner
Frederick Douglass
Jonathan Smyth
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$QUEST
The first Jewish cabinet member was:
Oscar Strauss
Roger Taney
George Humphrey
Ezra Benson
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$QUEST
The first cabinet member who was a brother of the President was:
Robert Kennedy
Jerry Johnson
Jim Ford
Roger Harding
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$QUEST
The first female cabinet member was:
Frances Perkins
Polly Ford
Elizabeth Taney
Veronica Stall
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$QUEST
The first person to be sentenced to capital punishment by authorization of federal law was:
John Paul Chase
Peter Jones
Carl Sacks
Theodore Bundy
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$QUEST
The first person to die of capital punishment authorized by federal law was:
George Barrett
Bryan Howe
Kevin O'Connell
Charles Mason
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$QUEST
The first person to die of capital punishment authorized by federal law was:
hanged
shot
drawn and quartered
electrocuted
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$QUEST
The first news cartoon was drawn by:
Benjamin Franklin
Charles Schultz
Kevin Chalin
Thomas Jefferson
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The first newspaper cartoon strip was entitled:
"Professor Tigwissel's Burglar Alarm"
"A Day at the Circus"
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
"Loretta's Day at Market"
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$QUEST
The first Congressional cemetery was established in:
Washington, DC
Arlington, VA
Port Smythe, VT
Bar Harbor, ME
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$QUEST
The first year that the census population exceeded 10 million was:
1830
1880
1900
1940
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$QUEST
The inventor of the rocking chair was:
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Franklin Carver
Theodore Trighton
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$QUEST
The first American chess champion was:
Paul Murphy
Frank Marshall
James Humphreys
Alfred Klahre
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$QUEST
The act that marked the inauguration of the Civil War was:
The firing upon the Star of the West
Attack on Hanover, PA
Union soldiers were stoned in Baltimore
Blood was shed at Fort Dixon
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The first attack of the Civil War was at:
Fort Sumter
Hanover
Morris Island
Buford
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The first Conferate forts to surrender were:
Fort Clark and Fort Hatteras
Fort Morris and Fort Sumter
Fort McHenry and Fort Dix
Fort Beaufort and Fort Charleston
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$QUEST
The first skirmish in the Civil War took place at
Fairfax Court House
Appotomax Court House
Bull Run Creek
Philippi
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$QUEST
The first college to be established was:
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Pennsylvania State University
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$QUEST
The first coeducational college was:
Oberlin Collegiate Institute
Loyola College
Mount St. Mary's College
St. Benedictine College
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$QUEST
The first college for women was:
Mount Holyoke Seminary
St. Joseph's College
University of Maryland
Westminster College
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$QUEST
The first permanent English settlement in America was:
Jamestown, VA
St. Augustine, FL
Calais, ME
Charlottesville, VA
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$QUEST
The first cotton gin was invented by:
Eli Whitney
Fred Cook
Will Morris
Thomas Foster
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$QUEST
The first bank credit card was issued by:
Franklin National Bank
Mercantile Bank
Bank of America
National Bank of Davenport
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$QUEST
The first crossword puzzle book was published by:
Simon & Schuster
Alfred Knopf & Sons
Curtis & Co.
Crossword Publishing, Ltd.
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The date that the Declaration of Independence was signed was:
July 4, 1776
July 4, 1876
September 3, 1787
January 31, 1824
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The first American flag was sewn by:
Betsy Ross
Rita Lynn
Jennifer Madison
Patricia Henry
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The first no-fault divorce was granted in:
California
Mississippi
Alabama
Washington
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$QUEST
The man who discovered Antarctica was:
Nathaniel Brown Palmer
Theodore Bunting
Matthew Henson
Alex Schwartz
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$QUEST
The first person to sign the Declaration of Independence was:
John Hancock
Charles Thompson
John Dunlop
Thomas McKean
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$QUEST
The first electrical experiment was run by:
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Eli Whitney
Jack Daniels
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The first state to enact an absentee vote was:
Vermont
Texas
Oregon
Maryland
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$QUEST
The explorers credited with the discovery of the North Pole are:
Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
John Dunn and Matthew Henson
Michael McCarthy and Matthew Henson
Theodore Bundy and James Caan
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The first American to set foot and plant a pole at the South Pole was:
Rear Admiral George Dutek
Lt. Col. Richard Byrd
Nathaniel Palmer
Robert Peary
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The first state to hold a primary statewide election was:
Wisconsin
Illinois
Idaho
Florida
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The Emancipation Act was first passed by:
Vermont
Idaho
Wisconsin
California
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$QUEST
The Declaration of Independence was signed in:
Philadelphia, PA
Hanover, PA
Los Angeles, CA
Beverly Hills, CA
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The President who signed the Emancipation Proclamation was:
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Lyndon Johnson
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$QUEST
The first cylinder lock (Yale) was invented in:
1851
1822
1892
1913
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$QUEST
The first American flag flown in battle was flown at:
Cooch's Bridge
Fort Dix
Fort Bragg
Fort Baines
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The first Congressional Confederate States flag had:
3 bars and 7 stars
13 stars
10 stars
48 stars and 1 bar
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