Famous Firsts
He was the first man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
This internet browser, released in 1995 by Microsoft, was dominant during the late 1990s
Internet Explorer
This artist holds the record for the most streamed song on Spotify with “Blinding Lights.”
The Weekend
This ancient port city in Lebanon, once known for its purple dye, gave its name to a civilization famous for seafaring and trade.
Tyre/Sidon
Guarded by a figure name plutus, lay those whose attitude towards material goods deviated from the appropriate mean. They include miserly people who hoarded possessions who squandered them. They joust using great weights as weapons which they push with their chests: Here too I saw a nation of souls far more than were above. They strained their chests against enormous weights and with mad howels rolled them at one another. Then in haste they rolled them back one party shouting out: “Why do you hoard?” and the other “Why do you waste?”. This is the _____ circle
the fourth circle of hell from Dante’s inferno
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Marie Curie
This invention, first developed by the Wright brothers in 1903, revolutionized transportation and made long-distance travel much faster.
Airplane
This British band famously crossed Abbey Road on their album cover.
The Beatles
This secret World War II project led to the development of the first nuclear weapons and involved top scientists working in Los Alamos.
Manhattan Project
Wishing to test if the gods really did know everything and could tell what they were eating even if it was forbidden food, Tantalus cooked up a stew with this "ingredient" and planned to serve it to all the gods at dinner.
His son
This was the first fully computer-animated 3D feature film, released in 1995
Toy Story
This device, invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, changed how we access information forever.
The internet/World Wide Web
The traditional Lebanese instrument called a 'derbakeh' belongs to this family of instruments.
percussion instruments
This empire, predating the Roman Republic, introduced the concept of roads as a state project and was defeated at the Battle of Gaugamela.
What is the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire?
In the third episode of this show, a shrimp calls the hotline after being dumped by his true love, Shrimpina. In attempt to help him, Pim and Charlie have very different ideas about how to handle the situation.
Smiling Friends
She was the first woman in history to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
Amelia Earhart
This programming language, created in the 1990s, is named after a type of coffee.
Java
This legendary band’s guitarist, who has a PhD in astrophysics, used a sixpence coin instead of a guitar pick.
Queen
Napoleon Bonaparte was finally defeated at this 1815 battle, which marked the end of his rule.
Battle of Waterloo
Almost a billion years old, this alien species were
galactic nomads, masters of genetic and
nanotechnological manipulation. With this ability to control the
material world, they assumed a religious, self-imposed mission to
“remake the universe as they saw fit.”
To them humanity, with all of its relative glories, was nothing more
than a transmutable subject. Within less than a thousand years of their arrival to the galaxy, every
human world was destroyed, depopulated or even worse; changed.
Despite the fervent rearmament, the human colonies could achieve nothing
against its billion-year-old foes, save for a few flashes of ephemeral
resistance.
Qu
This is widely considered the first video game
Pong
This first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, marked the beginning of the space age
Sputnik 1
Before settling on their iconic name, this British band briefly went by “The New Yardbirds.”
Led Zeppelin
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced this calendar reform, which eliminated 10 days from the year and is still in use today. The change led to this year being followed directly by the 15th.
Gregorian Calendar
2 + 2 =
4