100% | CLARINET | 8 | Mozart was the first major composer to write specifically for it |
39% | BLAZEATRAIL | 11 | Be the first to accomplish something (and do it spectacularly!) |
39% | STATEDEPARTMENT | 15 | Thomas Jefferson was the first to lead it |
39% | SECRETBALLOT | 12 | Australia was the first country to implement it |
39% | MBA | 3 | Harvard was the first to offer it (1908) |
39% | TELEPHONE | 9 | Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent it |
38% | RADIO | 5 | It was used to play music for the first time in 1906 |
38% | GEHRIG | 6 | Yankee who was the first major-leaguer to have his number retired |
38% | SNL | 3 | Buck Henry was the first to host it five times, briefly |
38% | IMAC | 4 | Apple device that was the first to employ its "i" prefix |
38% | JAWS | 4 | First major film to be shot on the ocean |
37% | MILE | 4 | Roger Bannister was the first to run it in under four minutes |
37% | EDITH | 5 | Wharton who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature |
37% | ERNANI | 6 | Verdi work that was the first opera to be recorded in its entirety |
37% | EDITH | 5 | Wharton who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
37% | LUISE | 5 | Rainer who was the first person to win two Academy Awards for acting |
37% | PGA | 3 | Babe Zaharias was the first woman to compete on its tour, in brief |
37% | NORTHWESTPASSAGE | 16 | The SS Manhattan was the first commercial ship to cross it |
37% | SAMESEXMARRIAGE | 15 | The Netherlands was the first country to legalize it |
36% | SUTTERSMALL | 11 | Historic shopping center that was the first to be called "a gold mine for investors"? |
36% | SARAZEN | 7 | Gene who was the first man to win all four of golf’s modern majors |
36% | ANNE | 4 | Sci-fi writer McCaffrey, who was the first woman to win a Hugo for fiction |
36% | INC | 3 | Business magazine that, in 1981, was the first to feature Steve Jobs on its cover |
36% | FATE | 4 | It is said to be written in the stars |
36% | JACOBY | 6 | Ellsbury who was the first Native American of Navajo descent to play in Major League Baseball |
35% | PROSPECT | 8 | Candidate for being brought up to the Majors |
35% | SING | 4 | "Of Thee I ___," Broadway musical that was the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
35% | CARRIERPIGEONNAMEDGIJOE | 23 | The first non-British to receive Britain's Dickin Medal for Gallantry was a _____ |
35% | ERIECANAL | 9 | The Seneca Chief was the first to travel its full length |
35% | ANGELA | 6 | Bassett who was the first person to be nominated for an Oscar for acting in a Marvel movie |