Which came first — the Gutenberg Bible or rounding the Cape of Good Hope?
The Gutenberg Bible.
Gutenberg printed his Bible in 1455. Dias didn't round the Cape until 1488. The printing press beat the Age of Exploration by 33 years.
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Which came first — the stock exchange or blood types?
The stock exchange.
The Amsterdam Stock Exchange opened in 1602. Blood types weren't discovered until 1901. Humans traded stock three centuries before knowing why transfusions killed.
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Which came first — nylon or King Kong?
King Kong.
King Kong hit screens in 1933. DuPont didn't announce nylon until 1938. A giant ape climbed the Empire State Building five years before the fabric in your stockings existed.
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Which came first — the Olympics or the founding of Rome?
The Olympics.
The first Olympics were held in 776 BC — 23 years before Rome was founded in 753 BC. The games are older than the Eternal City.
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Which came first — the Haitian Revolution or Beethoven's Ninth Symphony?
The Haitian Revolution.
In 1791, enslaved Haitians launched history's most successful slave revolt. Beethoven didn't premiere his Ode to Joy until 1824.
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Which came first — the Suez Canal or the periodic table?
Neither — they both happened in 1869.
Both 1869. Mendeleev organized every known element into the periodic table. That same year, engineers finished carving a shortcut between two seas.
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Which came first — Rhapsody in Blue or the discovery of vitamins?
The discovery of vitamins.
In 1912, a biochemist coined the word 'vitamine.' Twelve years later in 1924, Gershwin fused jazz and classical into Rhapsody in Blue.
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Which came first — the first TV commercial or the first McDonald's?
The first McDonald's.
The McDonald brothers opened a barbecue stand in 1940. A year later in 1941, Bulova paid $9 for a ten-second TV ad — the birth of TV advertising.
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Which came first — the zipper or the first Oscars?
The zipper.
The zipper was patented in 1893. Hollywood wouldn't hand out its first Oscar until 1929 — a fifteen-minute ceremony, thirty-six years later.
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Which came first — Ada Lovelace's algorithm or Darwin's Origin of Species?
Ada Lovelace's algorithm.
In 1843, a countess wrote code for a machine that wouldn't exist for a century. Darwin's Origin of Species came sixteen years later, in 1859.
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Which came first — the microwave oven or Pepsi-Cola?
Pepsi-Cola.
A North Carolina pharmacist mixed up 'Brad's Drink' in 1893. It took two world wars and a radar accident in 1945 before someone figured out you could reheat yesterday's pizza.
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Which came first — the Battle of Verdun or the film Nosferatu?
The Battle of Verdun.
The Battle of Verdun (1916) raged just six years before Nosferatu (1922)
brought horror to German cinemas.
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Which came first — the Great Fire of London or coffee reaching Amsterdam?
Coffee reaching Amsterdam.
Dutch merchants brought coffee to Amsterdam (1616) a full fifty years
before the Great Fire of London (1666).
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Which came first — the publication of Frankenstein or Napoleon's retreat
from Moscow?
Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.
Napoleon's retreat from Moscow (1812) came six years before Mary Shelley
published Frankenstein (1818).
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Which came first — the Kennedy-Nixon televised debate or the Beatles
forming in Liverpool?
Neither — they both happened in 1960.
The debate aired in 1960 — the same year four lads in Liverpool formed a
band that changed music.
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Which came first — the Salem Witch Trials or Newton's laws of motion?
Newton's laws of motion.
Newton published his Principia in 1687 — five years before Salem's witch
hysteria began in 1692.
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Which came first — Disney's Snow White or Orson Welles' War of the Worlds
broadcast?
Disney's Snow White.
Snow White (1937) hit theaters just one year before Welles' War of the
Worlds broadcast (1938) panicked America.
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Which came first — the first rabies vaccine or the first Wimbledon
Championship?
The first Wimbledon Championship.
Wimbledon's first championship (1877) predates Pasteur's rabies vaccine
(1885) by eight years.
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Which came first — Wagner's Ring Cycle premiere or Italian unification?
Italian unification.
Italy unified under King Victor Emmanuel in 1870 — six years before Wagner
premiered the Ring Cycle at Bayreuth in 1876.
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Which came first — the Statue of Liberty or Coca-Cola?
Neither — they both happened in 1886.
America's most iconic statue and its most iconic drink arrived the same
year.
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Which came first — the first Tour de France or Ford Model T production?
The first Tour de France.
Sixty cyclists raced across France in 1903 — five years before Ford's Model
T in 1908.
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Which came first — Einstein's special relativity or the first airplane
flight?
The first airplane flight.
The Wrights flew in 1903 — two years before Einstein published special
relativity in 1905.
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Which came first — the Communist Manifesto or Howe's sewing machine?
Howe's sewing machine.
Howe patented it in 1846 — two years before the Communist Manifesto in
1848.
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Which came first — the invention of basketball or the first cinema
screening?
The invention of basketball.
Naismith invented basketball in 1891 — four years before the Lumieres held
the first cinema screening in 1895.
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Which came first — Bell's telephone or the espresso machine?
Bell's telephone.
Bell patented the telephone in 1876 — eight years before Moriondo patented
the first espresso machine in Turin in 1884.
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Which came first — the first professional baseball team or
the patenting of the typewriter?
The patenting of the typewriter.
Sholes patented it in 1868 — a year before the Red Stockings
became the first pro team in 1869.
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Which came first — Prohibition in America or insulin first
treating a patient?
Prohibition in America.
The U.S. banned alcohol in 1920 — two years before insulin
first saved a life in 1922.
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Which came first — the first spacewalk or a woman orbiting
Earth?
A woman orbiting Earth.
Tereshkova orbited Earth 48 times in 1963 — two years before
Leonov's first spacewalk in 1965.
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Which came first — Bavaria's beer purity law or Cortés
tasting chocolate at the Aztec court?
Bavaria's beer purity law.
Duke Wilhelm IV signed it in 1516 — three years before Cortés
encountered chocolate with the Aztecs in 1519.
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Which came first — the modern Olympic Games or pizza Margherita?
Pizza Margherita.
Legend says Esposito baked it for Italy's queen in 1889 —
seven years before Athens hosted the first modern Olympics in
1896.
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