It’s a new year and to celebrate our January Quiz is featuring Famous Firsts of all kinds. Do you know the opening lines for some of the greatest works in literature or the most iconic songs of the last 50 years? We’re also looking for the first person to invent, discover, say or do the things listed below.

Word Bank (not all words will be used):

John Jay                            Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

Internet protocol             Manon Rheaume

“1999” by Prince              Michelle Green and Amanda Donohoe

Yuri Gagarin                     NBC

Sandra Day O’Connor    Madeleine Albright

Turtle                                  Lt. Uhura and Spock

“Kiss my A**”                    Mandy Patinkin

CBS                                     Lisa Leslie

George Orwell, 1984       Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Dot-com domain             Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Chuck Yeager                    “I Kissed a Girl” by Katy Perry

World Wide Web            NHL Tampa Bay Lighting

Thurgood Marshall        J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

L.A. Law                             NYPD Blue

Tim Berners-Lee              “Heart of Glass” by Blondie

Ray Tomlinson                 electronic communication message

Wendell Young               Café Terrace at Night

Star Trek                            “All to Myself” by Baby Rose

Katherine Johnson          internet web browser

pet alligator                      Lt. Uhura and Captain Kirk

Mark Harmon                  “Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel

Vincent van Gogh            Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner

Chicago Hope                   Bulova Watch Company

"s**t happens"                  Abby Perkins and C.J. Lamb                                   

Leave It to Beaver           Hector Elizondo                                            

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. ______________________

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.______________________________

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. ______________________________

I am a sick man … I am a spiteful man. ______________________________

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

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I was dreaming when I wrote this… ______________________________

Once I had a love and it as a gas… ______________________________

You could have a steam train if you’d just lay down your tracks…______________________________

It's 3:00am and I am alone in this apartment… ______________________________

This was never the way I planned, not my intention. ______________________________

In 1947, ____________________became the 1st person to fly faster than the speed of sound (670 mph in the Bell X-1 rocket).

___________________ became the first man to travel to outer space – completing an orbit of the earth on April 12, 1961.

In 1789, _______________ became the 1st US Supreme Court chief justice.

In 1967, ____________________ became the 1st African American Supreme Court justice.

In 1981, _____________________became the 1st female US Supreme Court justice.

The first ____________________ was established in 1982. In 1985, the first _______________________ was registered and in 1990, __________________________ developed the ______________________- the first ______________________________.

In 1971, ________________________of the United States developed the first ______________________________. The email was sent between two computers on the same network.

On September 23, 1992, ________________________ made history as the starting goalie for the ______________________________ in a preseason exhibition game, making her the first woman to play in any of the major men’s sports leagues in the U.S. Though she deflected seven of nine shots, she was replaced by goalie _________________________ and never played in an NHL regular-season game.

______________________________ (1888) was the first painting of ___________________________ in which he used a starry sky.

 _________________________ was the first African-American woman to attend graduate school at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. She also calculated the trajectory for the May 5, 1961 space flight of Alan Shepard, the first American in space.

In 1968, actors ______________________________, playing characters _________________________ kissed for the first time on ______________________________. Their kiss made history as the first kiss between characters of two different races.

On July 1, 1941, the first television commercial in the United States aired on ______. It was a ten second commercial for ______________________________ during a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies. It cost the company a total of $9.

The first scripted curse word on network television happened in 1999 when actor _________________ uttered the phrase _________________ on an episode of __________________________.

The first toilet to be shown on an American television program happened on ___________________________ in 1957, when the kids bought a ________________________ and hid it in the toilet tank.

The first kiss between a same sex couple aired on network TV on February 7, 1991 during an episode of   ___________________. Actors, ______________________________, playing characters, ______________________________, kissed. Advertisers threatened to pull their ads over the scene.

For the answers to this quiz, go to https://www.thisawfulawesomelife.com/home/2019/12/31/next-month-in-this-awful-awesome-life-february-2020