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People/Events in History
People's Firsts in History
100

Who was the president in the early 60's but was Assassinated

John F Kennedy

100

Who sang the 1978 hit, YMCA?

The Village People

100

Which 1980s US president survived an assassination attempt?

Ronald Reagan

100

What is the first college founded in America, in 1636. 

Harvard 

100

Who became the first black associate justice of the Supreme Court on October 2, 1967.

Thurgood Marshall 

200

What popular 4-man band sang "Yellow Submarine"?

The Beatles

200

Which Sound System required the use of large, rectangular tape cartridges

8 track

200

Which 1982 Spielberg classic was about a little boy and his pet alien?

E.T.

200

Who received the first gold record ever awarded to a recording artist (1942). It was for selling more than 1 million copies of this hit song

Glenn Miller

Chattanooga Choo-Choo

200

Charlotte Cooper was the first woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal in 1990 in which sport?  

Tennis 

300

Pants in the 1960's that become wider from the knee downwards are called?

Bell-Bottoms

300

The Sears Tower in what US city became the worlds tallest building in 1974

Chicago

300

Who sang about his Prerogative in the 1980s?

Bobbyy Brown

300

Who became the world's first billionaire in 1916.

John D. Rockefeller  

300

Who became the first female Supreme Court Justice in 1981? She was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

Sandra Day O'Connor

400

A 1960's T.V. show about a stone age mans life

The Flintstones

400

in 1978, who was the minister who became known around the world for ordering his followers to kill their children and commit suicide?

Jim Jones

400

In which 80s film did Meryl Streep play a Polish holocaust survivor?

Sophies Choice

400

The world’s first skyscraper was built in what city in 1885. The 10-story Home Insurance Company Building had two more floors added to it in 1890.

Chicago 

400

Who was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1906) and who was the first person ever to win two Nobel Prizes. Her first was in physics (1903) and the second was in chemistry (1911).  

Theodore Roosevelt and Marie Sklodowska Curie

500

What state did Woodstock take place?

New York

500

What was the highest grossing movie of the 70's

Star Wars

500

Which all-girl group had 80s No 1s with Walk Like An Egyptian and Eternal Flame?

Bangles

500

Who was the first American woman in space. First blasting off on June 18, 1983, Ride flew a total of three flights before retiring from NASA in 1987.

Sally Ride 
500

Who was the first guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (1962), she starred in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane

Joan Crawford 

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