This week's quiz tests your knowledge of groundbreaking events.

Short answers. (Keep it brief.)

1. What did Robert Gibbon Johnson of Salem, New Jersey, do in public in 1820 that scandalised his neighbours?
2. When Annette Kellerman of Australia was arrested on a Massachusetts beach in 1907, what was she wearing?
3. When George Washington was President, what breed was the First Dog?
4. Where was the first recorded bicycle accident? (And what were the consequences?)
5. What was said in the world's first telephone conversation?
6. What were the first words spoken by the first man in space, upon returning to Earth?
7. What is Canadian cinema actress May Irwin famous for? (Hint: She did this in 1896.)
8. 17th-century playwright and novelist Aphra Behn is famous as the first woman to earn a living by writing. But what was she doing in Antwerp in the 1660s?
9. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first photo in 1826. Where did he point his camera?
10. Okay, full circle: it is a well-known fact that Friedrich Wilhelm I, King of Prussia, liked potatoes. A LOT. What did he threaten to do to peasants who refused to grow this wonderful tuber?

If you knew all that, you're just full of fun factoids. If you're not sure, click on the delicious picture below to check your answers.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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