Trivia - History

[NaMeaHou]

Test your knowledge of information with limited value!

Who was:


1789 --- 1st Speaker Of the US House Of Representatives.


1790 --- holder of US Patent #1. Thousands of patents were issued before his, but his was the first when the numbering started. He patented a process for making potash and pearl ashes.


1900 --- 1st woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal (for tennis).


1907 --- 1st American Indian to become a US Senator. (Kansas)


ADD MORE IF you want!

[MuseRider]

1. Althea Gibson tennis I think

I am from Kansas and off the top of my head I can't think of who it is, I'll have to look it up.

[NaMeaHou]

3. Nice try, but

nope.

hint: Her first name was a book that spins a web.

[MuseRider]

6. Hmmmm

I think AG was the first African American to win a slam. Just confused here.

[NaMeaHou]

12. Don't tell anybody, but

it was Charlotte Cooper.

[underpants]

13. Charlotte

What I win what I win???

[NaMeaHou]

14. Half a Mini Cooper!

If you can make it to the chop shop on third and main before 3:00pm!

[dobak]

2. Here's one....

1921 - First Governor to be recalled (North Dakota)

[NaMeaHou]

4. Lynn J. Frazier

yup

[dobak]

5. yes!

Do you know why he was recalled?

[NaMeaHou]

7. I can't remember

I'm sure it's got to be an interesting story!

[NaMeaHou]

17. I had to look it up

He was ousted as the economy faltered and his Nonpartisan League party's socialist policies fell into disfavor. The voters were exercising a power they had attained just a year earlier.

"It was a symptom of the whole time of discontent because we were going into a time of lower agriculture prices, the wheat market plummeted, then we had a lot of banks that were starting to fail," said Marilyn Snyder, curator of education at the State Historical Society of North Dakota. "You've got a perfect parallel going on there."

Can you believe he was elected to the Senate as a Repub and served until losing re-election in 1940?

Some things never change.

[Padraig18]

8. Ummm

Not sure about the first 3, but the first American Indian to be a senator was Charles Curtis, who subsequently became Herbert Hoover's VP.

[NaMeaHou]

10. Ding ding ding!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice!

[underpants]

9. Frederick Muehlenberg of Pennsylvania

:hi:

[NaMeaHou]

11. First Speaker of the House

VERY good!

[maveric]

15. First patent was Samuel Hopkins.

His process was for soapmaking.

[NaMeaHou]

16. Way to go!

This completes my section of the trivia. Please feel free to add to it with your own. I get a kick out of learning these obscure facts!

:)