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- Hard Famous Firsts 5 Trivia
- Jennifer Curtis
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- Copyright 1997, Softdisk Publishing
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- Famous Firsts 5
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- Vivien Leigh received her first Oscar for:
- Gone with the Wind
- Rebel without a Cause
- Sunrise
- Treasure of Sierra Madre
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- Vivien Leigh received her second Oscar for:
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Seventh Heaven
- Treasure of Sierra Madre
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- The first drive-in motion picture was located in:
- Camden, NJ
- Baltimore, MD
- Cape Hatteras, NC
- Eugene, OR
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- The first newspaper publisher was:
- Benjamin Harris
- John Adams
- Benjamin Franklin
- Theodore Roosevelt
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- The first female motion picture star to win a lifetime achievement award was:
- Bette Davis
- Nora Gill
- Lillian Gish
- Clara Barton
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- The first daily newspaper was the:
- Pennsylvania Packet
- New York Herald
- New York Tribune
- Democratic Press
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- The first American-born composer was:
- Francis Hopkinson
- William Handy
- Johann Graupner
- Louis Gottschalk
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- The first motion picture actress to appear on a postage stamp was:
- Grace Kelly
- Theda Bara
- Lynda Levine
- Vivian Leigh
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- The piano was invented by:
- John Harris
- Jacob Henley
- Michael Savage
- Michael Crichton
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- The piano was originally called a:
- Spinet
- Tabler
- Pano
- Benchkey
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- The first American to receive the Nobel Prize was:
- President Theodore Roosevelt
- Dr. Linus Pauling
- President Lyndon Johnson
- John Henry
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- The first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to:
- Sinclair Lewis
- Robert Frost
- Robert Browning
- e.e. cummings
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- The first recipient of two full Novel Prizes was:
- Dr. Linus Pauling
- Saul Bellow
- Burton Richter
- Milton Friedman
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- The first fashion weekly was:
- Harper's Bazaar
- Ladies Home Journal
- Family Circle
- New Yorker
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- The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for a novel was:
- Edith Wharton
- Anne Rice
- Joanna Spinner
- Emma Thompson
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- The first female-written novel to win the Pulitzer Prize was:
- Age of Innocence
- The Lamb
- Toddy's House
- Tale of Two Cities
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- The first American athlete to win 4 Olympic medals in one year was:
- Jesse Owens
- Ralph Metcalfe
- Foy Draper
- Frank Wykoff
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- The first news photographer of distinction was:
- Matthew Brady
- Andrew Jackson
- Kevin O'Conner
- Theodore Travis
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- The first winter Olympics took place in:
- Lake Placid, NY
- Denver, CO
- Eugene, OR
- Killington, VT
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- The inventor of the phonograph was:
- Thomas Edison
- Alexander Bell
- Benjamin Franklin
- Carol Clark
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- The first magazine for women was:
- Ladies' Magazine
- Woman's Day
- Women's Weekly
- The Ladies Home Journal
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- The first paint prepared with standard formulas was developed by:
- Sherwin-Williams
- Dutch Boy
- Hechingers
- Parnon's Paints
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- The first poet to win the Pulitzer Prize four times was:
- Robert Frost
- Henry Longfellow
- William Bryant
- Benjamin Tompson
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- The first President to pitch a baseball to open baseball season was:
- William Taft
- Rutherford Hayes
- William Harrison
- Lyndon Johnson
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- The first President to broadcast by radio was:
- Warren Harding
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Calvin Coolidge
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- The first American woman depicted on a postage stamp was:
- Martha Washington
- Betsy Ross
- Linda Coolidge
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- The first President born as a citizen of the United States was:
- Martin Van Buren
- Rutherford Hayes
- Abraham Lincoln
- James Madison
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- The first President of the Confederate States was:
- Jefferson Davis
- John Henry
- Thomas Taylor
- Warren Wilson
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- The first President elected under the Constitution was:
- George Washington
- John Q. Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
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- The first President born on Independence Day was:
- Calvin Coolidge
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren Harding
- Thomas Jefferson
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- The first President buried in Washington, DC was:
- Woodrow Wilson
- Calvin Coolidge
- Warren Harding
- Thomas Jefferson
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- The first revolving restaurant was:
- the Top of the Needle
- Empire Towers
- Empire State Restaurant
- Gallant Galaxy
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- The first President elected by the House of Representatives was:
- Thomas Jefferson
- John Tyler
- James Madison
- George Washington
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- The first baseball World Series broadcast was between the:
- Giants and Yankees
- Dodgers and Giants
- Red Sox and Yankees
- Orioles and White Sox
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- The first President to get married while in office was:
- John Tyler
- Calvin Coolidge
- James Madison
- Abraham Lincoln
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- The first world heavyweight to regain his crown was:
- Floyd Patterson
- Ingemar Johansson
- Rocky Marciano
- Archie Moore
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- The first American lightweight champion of the world was:
- Kid Lavigne
- Dick Burge
- Bill Richmond
- Jack Holmes
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- The first President to be assassinated was:
- Abraham Lincoln
- John Kennedy
- Warren Harding
- Richard Nixon
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- The first President to be broadcast by radio was:
- Warren Harding
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Lyndon Johnson
- Gerald Ford
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- The first President elected for a fourth term was:
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Abraham Lincoln
- Theodore Roosevelt
- William Taft
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- The first black Presidential candidate nominated in a political convention was:
- Frederick Douglass
- George Washington Carver
- Jack Henry Mason
- Harry Tubman
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