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Originally Posted by pdurrant
OK, a new quiz.
1. Who was the second person to break the 4 minute mile after Roger Bannister
2. Who reached the top of Everest after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
3. Who was the third person on the moon, after Neil Amstrong and Buzz Aldrin? (Bonus point for the 4th)
4. Who was the second pilot to fly a heavier than air aeroplane non-stop across the Atlantic
5. Who was the second man to break the 10-second barrier at 100m, by electronic timing (bonus point for the first)
That'll do. Good luck!
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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
I think we have run out of puff on this one, Your Mousiness.
(Does that mean I managed to win with one point? It's getting to be like QI!)
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Yes! Bookpossum wins with 1 point.
1. John Landy (Bookpossum)
2.
Ernst Reiss and
Fritz Luchsinger (in 1956, three years after Hilary and Norgay)
3. Charles "Pete" Conrad, Alan L. Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar D. Mitchell, David Randolph Scott, James B. Irwin, John Watts Young, Charles M. Duke Jr., Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, Eugene A. Cernan
4. Charles Lindburgh. The first non-stop flight (but not solo) was by two British airmen, Capt.
John Alcock and Lieut.
Arthur Whitten Brown in 1919.
5. The first two were
1. 14 October 1968 Jim Hines, 9.95
2. 11 August 1977 Leonard Silvio, 9.98
Over to you, Bookpossum!