Quiz #1 - Famous Firsts

[SVCBeercats]

I dispute "Enterprise". The key word in the question is "Spacecraft". Enterprise was never intended to be a spacecraft. So, the correct answer is the shuttle. Colombia was the first?

I looked this up. Depends on the definition of spacecraft and if it was carrying a human. The unmanned Soviet Union's Luna 9 made the first successful landing on the moon on 2/3/1966. I thought for sure it was the Lunar Lander. Never heard of the Luna 9. If it traveled into space, it is a spacecraft for me.

 

[Ozimoto]

Yes, the USSR landed Luna 9 on the moon first. It was, however, unmanned. If I remember correctly, the full first message sent from the Apollo mission after the Eagle landed was "Tranquility Base, the Eagle has landed." And of course that was followed by Neil Armstrong's famous message as he stepped onto the moon's surface.

 

[WiseWillie]

Some if the questions are tricky as you mention. DelCanonavigator and inherited the captaincy after Magellan was killed. So he is credited as the first to circumnavigate the globe. The entire surviving crew could be credited as you suggest (and they probably deserve it). But think of it this way, if Magellan had survived, he would be the only one credited.

After this I'm heading to the library to see what they might have on little known DelCano. We need more of these brain teasers.

 

[Skeets]

Yes, the USSR landed Luna 9 on the moon first. It was, however, unmanned. If I remember correctly, the full first message sent from the Apollo mission after the Eagle landed was "Tranquility Base, the Eagle has landed." And of course that was followed by Neil Armstrong's famous message as he stepped onto the moon's surface.

Nope. Something was said before "tranquility base". I'll give it another day and then revel the answer. I suppose if you want to cheat there's got to be an audio online of the landing.

 

[Skeets]

While we are having fun, what is the real, official name of the Hudson River? Hint it was named by Henry Hudson, thus that's the official name. New Yorkers should be able to get this...

 

[Bigboote]

While we are having fun, what is the real, official name of the Hudson River?

The Fiorello LaGuardia-Daniel Patrick Moynihan Hudson Outfitters River presented by Subway sponsored by Capital One?

 

[Skeets]

The Fiorello LaGuardia-Daniel Patrick Moynihan Hudson Outfitters River presented by Subway sponsored by Capital One?

Close, but not quite correct. I thoroughly expect @PAHuskyfan to get it correct. He probably doesn't want to respond because that would be like kicking a puppy.

 

[Skeets]

Nope. Something was said before "tranquility base". I'll give it another day and then revel the answer. I suppose if you want to cheat there's got to be an audio online of the landing.

Contact light! First words spoken from the moon.

 

[FairView]

Madame Curie is the answer to both 1 and 6 (one of the three or four answers I knew without looking them up), and she is still the only person (man or woman) to win in two different categories (although it was basically for the same work). I knew the expedition was led by Magellan before he was killed, but didn't know who completed it. I knew Smallpox too.

Others I never would have gotten without research. No one has given the correct answer for 3, 4, or 8 yet. Fairview got 7 basically right but Enterprise was not the first shuttle.

Space Shuttle Enterprise - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[CB360]

Thanks for putting this together. I've had about a third of a quiz several times since the NCAA season ended and haven't finished any.

1. Marie Curie?

2. Snow White?

3. --

4. --

5. Smallpox

6. This is definitely Marie Curie (chemistry and physics)

7. Mercury?

8. Apollo 11 lunar lander (if it had another name, that escapes me)

9. --

10. Francis Drake

"Tranquility Base here, "The EAGLE " has landed....

 

[Skeets]

"Tranquility Base here, "The EAGLE " has landed....

No, the first words spoken from the moon were: "Contact light", followed soon after with "Tranquility Base here..."

 

[VAUConnFan]

Okey-doke, this is my first attempt at constructing a quiz. Be nice. I had some help from ChatGPT (AI) which suggest topics and questions. I tried to make a women’s college basketball quiz, specifying difficult questions but about a third of the questions involved UConn or were so easy that it wouldn’t be any kind of a challenge (“What team had a 111 game win streak?” )

No Google searches, good people.

1. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? Madame Curie

2. What was the first full-length animated film ever to be released? Steamboat Willie

3. What was the first product to have a bar code?

4. Who was the first artist to win a Grammy for album of the year? Frank Sinatra

5. What was the first successful vaccine ever introduced? Yellow Fever

6. Who was the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes in different scientific fields?

7. What was the name of the first reusable spacecraft? Voyager

8. What was the first spacecraft to land on the moon? Gemini

9. What was the first commercially available personal computer?

10. What explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe by boat? Magellan

 

[Kaizen]

The first words spoken on the moon after the Apollo 11 lunar module landed were "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed," spoken by Neil Armstrong. These words were transmitted back to mission control in Houston after the lunar module, nicknamed "Eagle," touched down on the moon's surface. Shortly after, Armstrong famously added, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind," as he took his first steps onto the lunar surface.

Google Search

 

[Skeets]

Henry Hudson discovered and explored the river most people call the "Hudson River". Henry named the river the "North River". The convention is the person who does the discovery gets to name the thing discovered.

Don't know how true this is, but I was told that an early explorer, maybe old Henry himself, was taking sounding of the river to ensure that they would not run aground. When they got to the bend in the river just south of where West Point is now, they couldn't find the bottom. They named this spot in the river "World's End".