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Which Came First?
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Which came first: teaching at Oxford University or the founding of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?
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Which came first: teaching at Oxford University or the founding of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?
Answer: Teaching at Oxford
Teaching at Oxford existed by 1096. Tenochtitlan was founded around 1325.
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Which came first: the Great Pyramid of Giza or the founding of Rome?
Answer: The Great Pyramid
The Great Pyramid dates to about 2560 BC. Rome’s traditional founding date is 753 BC.
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Which came first: Gutenberg’s printing press or Columbus reaching the Americas?
Answer: The printing press
Gutenberg was printing around 1440, about 50 years before Columbus sailed in 1492.
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Which came first: the first Super Bowl or the first Moon landing?
Answer: The first Super Bowl
The first Super Bowl was played in January 1967. Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in July 1969.
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Which came first: the founding of Harvard or Isaac Newton’s work on calculus?
Answer: The founding of Harvard
Harvard was founded in 1636. Newton worked out calculus in the 1660s.
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Which came first: the Statue of Liberty or the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in 1886. The Eiffel Tower opened in 1889.
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Which came first: the fax machine or the telephone?
Answer: The fax machine
Alexander Bain patented an early fax device in 1843, decades before Bell’s telephone patent in 1876.
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Which came first: the Great Pyramid or the extinction of the woolly mammoth?
Answer: The Great Pyramid
A small group of mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago, after the pyramid was built.
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Which came first: the founding of Nintendo or the first Ford Model T?
Answer: Nintendo
Nintendo started as a playing-card company in 1889. The Model T arrived in 1908.
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Which came first: the first Apple computer or the first Star Wars film?
Answer: The Apple I computer
The Apple I went on sale in 1976. The first Star Wars film came out in 1977.