Quiz #1 - Famous Firsts

[HuskyNan]

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?

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

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?

5. What was the first successful vaccine ever introduced?

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?

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

9. What was the first commercially available personal computer?

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

 

[Bigboote]

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

 

[BBallF]

Thanks Nan. I believe #10 is Magellan. For #9 I will guess Macintosh.

 

[FairView]

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

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

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?
Sinatra (guess)

5. What was the first successful vaccine ever introduced?
Polio

6. Who was the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes in different scientific fields?
Curie (is there a second?)

7. What was the name of the first reusable spacecraft?
The Space Shuttle prototype was named Enterprise

8. What was the first spacecraft to land on the moon?
The Eagle has landed

9. What was the first commercially available personal computer?
Something Apple?

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

 

[Bigboote]

Thanks Nan. I believe #10 is Magellan.

DOH! My brain was stuck on first English circumnavigator.

 

[Henry]

I think the 1st commercially available PC was from Radio Shack. I don't remember the model name.

 

[HuskyNan]

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

AI is perfect for this type of thing. “Suggest topics for trivia quizzes “ and - poof - a list pops out. Follow up with “give me 20 questions and answers in ______ category”

 

[Forego]

Juan Sebastian DelCano was the first person to circumnavigate the globe. Magellan died before he could complete the voyage. Believe he was killed by the natives on one of the islands he stopped at

 

[SandrasGuy]

Was the 1st pc the radio shack TRS-80 (the trash-80)?

 

[SVCBeercats]

QUIZ Answers

1. Marie Curie
2. Fantasia
3. Wrigley's gum
4. ???
5. For smallpox, name? don't know
6. Marie Curie - physics and chemistry
7. Space Shuttle
8. Apollo 11 Lunar Lander
9. Altair
10. Magellan, By boat? What were the other options in the 16th century?

 

[SVCBeercats]

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

The bar code was first invented for what industry (unsuccessfully)?

 

[WiseWillie]

#9 First commercially successful PC? Showing my age here, but I think the Altair 8800. Wow. You couldn't get it in a store. Had to order a kit (or assembled) by mail order. (Mail order! Oh, brother. Where was Amazon? How we have advanced. LOL.)

 

[temery]

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

Alcohol?

 

[SVCBeercats]

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

For what industry was the bar code invented (unsuccessfully)?
Hint: stationary groceries proved easier to scan successfully.

 

[SVCBeercats]

#9 First commercially successful PC? Showing my age here, but I think the Altair 8800. Wow. You couldn't get it in a store. Had to order a kit (or assembled) by mail order. (Mail order! Oh, brother. Where was Amazon? How we have advanced. LOL.)

Great job? I knew Altair but no model number even entered my mind. Kudos to you!

 

[WiseWillie]

Re #9: Radio Shack followed the 8800 a little after the 8800 came out I think around 1975 or 1976 with the popular TRS-80 with a video monitor that was a huge success. The Commodore 64 (those old enough to remember) came out five or six years later.

 

[fomalhaut]

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.

 

[Bigboote]

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).

Linus Pauling won in chemistry and peace.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Linus Pauling won in chemistry and peace.

Thank you, Big - back when I was in high school, the Advance Placement advisor took a small group of us to hear him speak at Newark - I think Rutgers Newark but am not sure. He was on a vitamin C kick. But due to that, I actually knew he did that.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

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.

Mostly with you on the ones I could answer easily. I did remember "The Eagle has Landed" - I hope correctly.

Oddly enough, the 1st space shuttle name was a recent Jeopardy question - I agree it wasn't Enterprise, which was my guess when we were watching Jeopardy. Don't remember the answer, unfortunately.

 

[Skeets]

Alcohol?

I was going to say something like Joe's bar and grill. Some of these questions are tricky. The first space craft to land on the moon definitely wasn't Apollo 11. At least a half dozen space craft landed on the moon before Apollo 11. As pointed out earlier, Magellan never made it, but wouldn't his surviving crew be the first?

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?

Here's one that 95% of the people get wrong, what were the first words spoken from the moon?

 

[temery]

Here's one that 95% of the people get wrong, what were the first words spoken from the moon?

It's in how the question is worded. I believe it's intended to be what were the first words spoken while standing on the moon.

 

[Skeets]

It's in how the question is worded. I believe it's intended to be what were the first words spoken while standing on the moon.

OK, fair enough. Here's a clarification and a big hint, not necessarily standing on the moon.

 

[WiseWillie]

Thank you, Nan, for this opportunity to clear out some of the cobwebs while we do anything to keep ourselves entertained while waiting for November to come.

 

[Forego]

I was going to say something like Joe's bar and grill. Some of these questions are tricky. The first space craft to land on the moon definitely wasn't Apollo 11. At least a half dozen space craft landed on the moon before Apollo 11. As pointed out earlier, Magellan never made it, but wouldn't his surviving crew be the first?

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?

Here's one that 95% of the people get wrong, what were the first words spoken from the moon?

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.