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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Started conversation Apr 3, 2011
I was the first!
The first what?
When was I first?
Where was I the first?
No Goole or Wiki.
Yes, there are the inevitable tripwires!
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toybox Posted Apr 3, 2011
Could you be just a little bit less specific?
I was Louis Bleriot, first aviator to cross the Channel, around 1909, North of France. And my moustache provoked jealousy of many a Russian aristocrat.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 3, 2011
OK Toybox!
It is not a person!
Try again!
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 3, 2011
OOooo!
Near a tripwire there!
Not a festival!
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toybox Posted Apr 3, 2011
The first marathon of Jerusalem? It was like a week ago, and in Jerusalem.
By the way, this is a good reason for the British to switch to metric instead of miles: the marathon is 42km long 
(And I'm not sure that googling "first" would be of much help 
)
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 3, 2011
Nope Toybox, Googling 'First' is no help at all!!
That is why I am devious. Googling helps later on, as we come close to the answer!
Marathon though has gained you a 
-5....
!
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toybox Posted Apr 3, 2011
The danger of answering before Taff 
Is it sports? Or technology?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 3, 2011
Fishing Toybox???
Already???
We know it is not a person!
Try a few guesses!
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toybox Posted Apr 3, 2011
Fishing? Oh no, just trying to move the Schmilblick forward. But we still need a bit of information!
So this first something was the way it was done that was new. For example, people used to play the "Jeu de paume" in the, er, long ago (18th Century?), and one day it became tennis.
In a nutshell: it wasn't quite new, but the way it was done was a premiere?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 3, 2011
OK!!
The 'thing' that the QI relates to was the first of its kind in the UK.
Try now!
No more clues till later!
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 3, 2011
Driving on the right?
Never been done!!
We already know it is not a person as such!
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 3, 2011
Yes Toybox!
It is a company we are seeking here!
DGI +1
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toybox Posted Apr 3, 2011
Ok now, a company... We do mean a business, not bunch of people? (Company as in, er, Miele, as opposed to the Fellowship of the Rings say.)
So it has to be Citroen.
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toybox Posted Apr 3, 2011
Perview is my fiend? Or should I turn my fingers seven times in my hands before typing? Citroen has little to do with the UK 
Cadbury's?
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shagbark Posted Apr 3, 2011
Oh, and in post 1 you say no goole so doesw that rule out zombies?
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toybox Posted Apr 3, 2011
The first company: h2g2, who invented online encyclopedias, social networks, and so much more! 
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