Look Smart Trivia: Famous Firsts

JasonToon posted some pics said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 9:46am ET

Do you like trivia? Do you have eyes? Could you use the occasional five bucks to throw around at Meh? Then I think you’re gonna like this new thing I’m doing. It’s called Look Smart Trivia, it happens in the Meh forums every Monday through Friday, and it gives me a great excuse to mingle among the Mehterati once again!

Here’s how it works: we show you five things. You tell us what they are in a comment in the thread. The first player to name all five will get a $5 coupon code from your favorite online store! Which is Meh, right? RIGHT?

For our first quiz, it made sense to me to celebrate famous firsts. Here are five illustrious trailblazers whose ranks are sure to be joined by Look Smart Trivia in history’s annals. Take a look at them. Discuss with your fellow Mehtizens. Kvetch. Parley. Accuse. Deny. Google, if you’re really lame. Then post your best stab at naming all five in a comment below.

Tomorrow (yes! we do this EVERY weekday!), we’ll announce who nailed it first, and award that genius a $5 token of esteem for their brilliance. See you then! Insert signoff catchphrase here!

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lichme said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 10:04am ET:
1. Laika - First Dog in Space
2. Wings: The First Oscar Best Picture
3. Delaware State Flag: Date (Dec 7, 1787) in which Delaware was the first state to ratify the United States constitution
4. Roger Bannister, First Athlete to Break the 4-Minute Mile
5. Sandra Day O’Connor - First woman to serve on supreme court
Another first: Me, to win the trivia
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  shahnm said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 10:23am ET
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dave said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 10:46am ET:

I just learned that for the 1st Academy Awards there were two Best Picture categories:
Best Picture, Production (which is the above one)
and Best Unique and Artistic Picture (which went to “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” which I’ve never heard of).

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Mothersnakes said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 11:07am ET:

When I was in my early teens I loved me some Barbara Feldon.

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medz said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 12:04pm ET:
1. Laika
2. Alas, William A. Wellman (1927)
3. Delaware Flag
4. Roger Bannister, First Athlete to Break the 4-Minute Mile
5. Sandra Day O’Connor
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medz said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 12:08pm ET:
1. Dog Massage Machine
2. Saving Ryan’s Privates
3. Settlers of Catan (first edition)
4. Early Electric Fence Human Trials
5. Professor at HFU (High Five University)
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medz said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 12:13pm ET:

LMGTFY
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medz said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 12:17pm ET:

Next time crop, skew, and otherwise obscure the images to confuse google image search. Or maybe hand-draw them so they are originals. Now THAT would be a contest.

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- @medz Working on it! Some of the quiz formats (including the next one!) will have search prevention built into them…
  
  JasonToon said Tue, Jan 8th 2019 at 8:15am ET
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- aetris said Tue, Jan 8th 2019 at 9:21am ET
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cinoclav said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 12:46pm ET:

Hoping you limit this to one win per user. Many of us can’t check often enough to get answers in as fast as others.

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- @cinoclav Me too, otherwise @lichme is going to be the new @bsmith1 of meh.
  
  therealjrn said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 2:46pm ET
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- @Bsmith1 @cinoclav @therealjrn Not true. It took me 29 minutes to see this comment, even with email notifications enabled.
  
  lichme said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 3:16pm ET
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- @Bsmith1 @lichme @therealjrn It took me three hours before I could go online and I saw this thread.
  
  cinoclav said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 4:13pm ET
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Barney said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 12:52pm ET:
1. Purple
2. Purple
3. Purple
4. Purple
5. Purple
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- @Barney Oh, so close. But #5 is actually lavender.
  
  cinoclav said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 12:53pm ET
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- @cinoclav Doesn’t #5 say lavender? Why, yes it does. There must be something wrong with your computer.
  
  Barney said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 1:07pm ET
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shahnm said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 1:20pm ET:
1. Battery operated device with a cute puppy included in the picture just because
2. “Do you boys refrigerate your batteries?”
  “Why yes ma’am we surely do!”
3. Flag commemorating the first time some freedom loving 'mericans first realized that someday batteries would be invented, and some other day refrigerators would be invented, and after a long, dark interval in our country’s history to come, a wise soul would eventually come along and lead our great nation into refrigerating the batteries of our people.
4. “OH MY GOD I HAVE TO GET THESE BATTERIES BACK IN THE REFRIGERATOR BEFORE THEY GET TOO WARM!!!”
5. “I solemnly swear to refrigerate my batteries, as all great 'mericans must do. That’s why they created that fabulous flag, after all.”
When do I get my $5 coupon?
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djslack said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 1:46pm ET:

I’m late for trivia, just wanted to say “Holy Crap, it’s @JasonToon!”

WB mate!

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- @djslack Thanks, man!
  
  JasonToon said Tue, Jan 8th 2019 at 8:12am ET
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medz said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 5:16pm ET:
1. First commercial deep fat fryer
2. First documented devil’s triangle
3. First image created by Billy (age 5) using clipart and Microsoft Paint fill tool
4. First sneeze captured on film
5. First “talk to the hand” gesture to be photographed
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speediedelivery said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 6:25pm ET:

Maybe whisper replies and reveal later?

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  Something. Otherwise no participation. Maybe a second coupon for one that Toon finds humorous or informative by going above and beyond.
  
  medz said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 8:16pm ET
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Limewater said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 6:39pm ET:
1. “Get away from her, you bitch!” The original all-dog feature film, of which Aliens is a remake.
2. First lady-doctor. Related fun fact-- all clinical trials for gynecological drugs and procedures were originally done on men, since women were deemed to delicate for untested medical procedures.
3. Cover of first indie rock album released on phonograph cylinder. Release date: December 7, 2018
4. First sub-four minute mile run by a doctor.
5. First pinky ring worn by a Supreme Court Justice.
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- @Limewater ah… I thought #5 was the first female NASA employee known for coining the phrase featured in that Bruno Mars song. “put your pinky rings up to the Moon”
  
  medz said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 8:19pm ET
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- @Limewater @medz And I thought #5 was the first major fail for the Vulcan, “Live long and prosper.”
  
  Barney said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 8:38pm ET
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- @Limewater your answer to # 1 is the best line in this thread so far …
  
  stolicat said Tue, Jan 8th 2019 at 1:51am ET
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squirrelmeh said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 8:58pm ET:
1. Laika
2. wings
  3)Delaware flag
3. roger bannister finishing a 4 minute mile
4. tbe swearing in of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
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  /image wings tv
  
  medz said Mon, Jan 7th 2019 at 11:05pm ET
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connorbush said Tue, Jan 8th 2019 at 12:37am ET:

This is neat.

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stolicat said Tue, Jan 8th 2019 at 1:53am ET:

@JasonToon approximately what time of the day will this feature appear? Apparently I missed it by 16 hours …

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- @stolicat I’d guess approximately 16 hours before you posted this then.
  
  lichme said Tue, Jan 8th 2019 at 9:00am ET
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aetris said Tue, Jan 8th 2019 at 8:54am ET:

1: Laika, first dog to wear a thong.

2: WWI, first time pilots agreed on a threesome

3: Delaware, first state to agree it’s seal was too busy

4: Rogeria von Bannister, first East German woman to use steroids competitively

5: Sandra Day O’Connor, first judge to wear a pinkie ring

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