The Post Quiz: The Inventive 20th Century

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The 20th Century. Love it or hate it, we've left it.

The Post Quiz: The Inventive 20th Century

The special effects were awesome.

It was a century that started with nothing in the sky but birds and balloons – and ended with men on the moon and SCUD missiles. What a wild ride.

How well do you know the 20th Century? That's a trick question. Can you put these events in the order in which they happened? You might find it harder than you think.

  • First personal computers
  • First satellite in orbit
  • First powered airplane flight
  • First commercial radio station
  • First men on moon
  • First tractor
  • First commercial Zeppelin flight
  • First atomic bomb
  • First public TV stations
  • First mobile phone call

Check your chronology: click on the picture below.

An answering machine
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