Firsts

1 What was the title of the first number one hit single for The Jam?

2 Who was the winner of the first I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here reality TV show?

3 What is the first name of Lady Chatterley in the novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover?

4 Who was Cilla Black’s first manger in her pop music career?

5 Who became the first female Prime Minister of France?

6 Who was the first woman to be voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year?

7 In 1860, which Covent Garden firm became the first dresswear hire outlet in the UK?

8 Who was the first US President to receive a Nobel Prize?

9 What was the first number one hit single for Status Quo?

10 Who was the first black man to host a TV show in the USA?

11 In 1967 which American football team became the first winners of the Super Bowl?

12 Who was Margaret Thatcher’s first Chancellor?

13 Which cartoon dog was the star of the first animated TV show to win an Emmy Award?

14 Whose death warrant was signed on February 1st, 1587 by Queen Elizabeth I?

15 Who was the first singer to sell one million copies of a record?

16 Who was the first Viceroy of India?

17 In 1909, who became the first person to reach the North Pole?

18 Who was the first English monarch to hold the title Defender of the Faith?

19 The UK’s first elevator was seen in which department store in 1898?

20 Whose was the first royal funeral to be televised in Britain?

…And Lasts

21 What was the nationality of the last non Italian Pope before John Paul II?

22 What was the last album recorded by John Lennon in his lifetime?

23 Whose last film role saw him playing an ancient Roman called Proximo?

24 Who wrote Last of the Mohicans?

25 What was the last number one hit for The Jam?

26 Idris I was the last king of which country?

27 What would your profession be if using a model called a last?

28 What was John Wayne’s last film?

29 The Last Man in Europe was the original working title of which novel?

30 Whose reputed last words were, “I am just going outside and I may be some time”?

31 If all the Carry On films were listed alphabetically which would come last?

32 The last episode of which US TV show was entitled, Goodbye, Farewell and Amen?

33 What was the last completed novel of Charles Dickens?

34 Which 70s heartthrob returned to the charts in 1986 with the song, The Last Kiss?

35 In 1955 who became the last woman to be executed by hanging in Britain?

36 Which movie icons last spoken words on film were, “How do you find your way back in the dark”?

37 What made its last Trans-Atlantic flight on October 24, 2003?

38 Who painted the Last Supper?

39 The last episode of which TV comedy ended with the words, “Sorry we’re closed”?

40 The last line of which novel reads, “Until we have wiped the last one of them from the face of the Earth they have usurped”?

Answers to Firsts

1 Going Underground
2 Tony Blackburn
3 Constance
4 Brian Epstein
5 Edith Cresson
6 Anita Lonsbrough
7 Moss Brothers
8 Theodore Roosevelt
9 Down Down
10 Nat King Cole
11 Green Bay Packers
12 Geoffrey Howe
13 Huckleberry Hound
14 Mary Queen of Scots
15 Enrico Caruso
16 Warren Hastings
17 Robert Peary
18 Henry VIII
19 Harrods
20 George VI

… And Lasts

21 Dutch
22 Double Fantasy
23 Oliver Reed in Gladiator
24 James Fenimore Cooper
25 Beat Surrender
26 Libya
27 Cobbler or shoemaker, a last being a model of a human foot
28 The Shootist
29 1984
30 Captain Lawrence Oates
31 Carry On Up the Khyber
32 MASH
33 Our Mutual Friend
34 David Cassidy
35 Ruth Ellis
36 Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits
37 Concorde
38 Leonardo da Vinci
39 Cheers
40 The Day of the Triffids