1. What first was introduced by Grisold Lorilland at an Autumn ball at the Tuxedo Club in New York in 1886?
2. Prisoners of which nationality carried out the world's first hunger strike?
3. House numbers first appeared in which city?
4. Which historical family introduced the world's first income tax?
5. The world's first innoculations were practised with which disease?
6. What first was achieved by Andre-Jacques Garnerin in 1797?
7. The first buses appeared in which city in 1662?
8. The first motorway appeared in which city?
9. What was introduced by Arthur Wynne in 1913?
10. Which year saw the first steamship crossing of the Atlantic, the introduction of canned Sardines and the first book for the blind with raised type in English?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

1. Dinner Jacket (Tuxedo)
2. Russian
3. Paris
4. Medici's (1451)
5. Small Pox
6. First Parachute Descent
7. Paris
8. Germany
9. First Crossword
10. 1819