Firsts
This was the first music video ever played on MTV (yes, they used to show these!).
What is "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles?
This is considered the most important thing to do when first meeting someone.
What is make eye contact?
This is a plan you make to spend your money.
What is a budget?
These are what the police are supposed to read if someone is being arrested.
What are Miranda rights?
In a pinch, this can treat minor cuts on your skin. It's also good for fixing many things around the house.
What is super glue?
This person was the first to use a "typemachine" or typewriter to write a book.
Who was Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)?
Eye contact, how you sit, and whether or not you cross your arms or legs are all considered this kind of communication.
What is non-verbal communication?
This account you use for everyday spending is typically where your paycheck is deposited.
What is a checking account?
These are what we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is how often you should change the oil in your car (in general).
What is every 5,000 miles?
This person was the first to circumnavigate the globe (he went around it in a ship) in 1522 AD.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
This is when you are fully engaged in what someone has to say typically by repeating/paraphrasing what the person is saying, using eye contact, and not answering your phone (to name a few).
What is active listening?
This number (or a set of numbers) helps determine your ability to secure a loan for a house, car, or other expensive item.
What is a credit score?
Name three of the five rights listed in the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights.
What are religion, speech, press, peaceable assembly, and petitioning the government for a redress of grievances?
This is the date that your taxes are due every year.
What is April 15th?
These two bicycle makers made the first powered flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.
Who were the Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur)?
This is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others.
What is empathy?
This is where you spend a company's money with the expectation that it will be paid back, typically with interest.
What is credit?
These are rights that most people believe each person, regardless of who they are and where they come from, is guaranteed.
What are basic human rights?
This is the largest mountain/volcano in the solar system.
What is Olympus Mons (Mars)?
Neil Armstrong famously said this line: "That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind." as he became the first person to do this.
What is step foot (walk) on the moon?
This is a simple way to show others you are friendly and have good social skills. Just try not to look like the Joker when you do it...
What is smiling?
This is what you need to do to a paycheck before you can deposit it.
What is sign it?
This is a right in the United States that helps determine who speaks for the people.
What is voting?
This is the furthest planet from the sun since Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet.
What is Neptune?