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This month's theme is 'Pioneers'. How much do you know about them?

Famous Firsts: Answers

Here are the famous people who did things for the first time.

Famous FirstFamous Firster
  1. First explorer to cross Antarctic Circle
  2. Inventor of reflecting telescope
  3. First person to receive two Nobel Prizes
  4. First marathon runner
  5. First human to make paper
  6. First talking movie star
  7. First to build a bicycle
  8. First to build a transatlantic steamship
  9. First woman to earn a doctorate
  10. First woman to climb Mt Everest
  1. James Cook
  2. Isaac Newton
  3. Marie Curie
  4. Pheidippides
  5. Cai Lun
  6. Al Jolson
  7. Karl von Drais
  8. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  9. Juliana Morell
  10. Junko Tabei

Pretty impressive. Puts our first in the shade. 'First person to land a minidrone on the back of a five-pound dog' doesn't sound so earth-shattering. . .

Craig Doyle in a Sinclair C5 car.
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