Answers to Trivia Quiz: "Famous Firsts"

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1. First person to reach the summit of Mt. Everest?

Sir Edmund Hillary (1953)

2. First woman into outer space?

Valentina Tereschkova (1963)

3. First vessel to transit the North Pole under the ice?

USS Nautilus (SSN-571) in 1958

4. First person to reach the South pole?

Roald Amundsen (1911)

5. First "Miss America"? (Hint: 1921)

Margaret Gorman of Washington D.C. Her measurements: 30-25-32

6. First athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals?

Mark Spitz (USA) in 1972

7. First American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Theodore Roosevelt in 1906

8. First US President to speak on television?

Franklin D. Roosevelt at NY World's Fair in 1939

9. First person to pilot an aircraft faster than sound?

Charles (Chuck) Yeager in Bell X-1 rocket in 1947

10. First man to run a mile in under four minutes?

Sir Roger Bannister (1954)

11. First living creature to orbit the earth?

Laika (female dog) in Sputnik II in 1957

12. First man to walk on the moon?

Neil Armstrong (1969)

13. First state to ratify the US Constitution?

Delaware on Dec 7, 1787

14. First image of an actual person on a US coin?

Abraham Lincoln on US one-cent coin (1909)

15. First American woman into space?

Sally Ride aboard space shuttle CHALLENGER (1983)

Airborne! Steve / 82Rigger