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1. What was the name of the American fighter pilot who flew the most missions in World War II?
2. What is the name of the first female reported to have been struck by a meteorite?
3. Who was the first person to announce on network television that President John F. Kennedy had been shot?
4. What is the only animal that can see both ultra-violet and infra-red light?
5. Who was the first person to take his shirt off on television?
6. What was the first city in the United States to use 911 as an emergency telephone number?
7. Who was the first pilot to land a plane onto a ship?
8. Who was the only vice president of the United States who wasn't white?
9. How much did it cost to bury Rembrandt?
10. How much did Rembrandts first painting sell for after his death?

2006-12-01 15:42:13 · 3 answers · asked by Serinity4u2find 6 in Education & Reference Trivia

3 answers

1. What was the name of the American fighter pilot who flew the most missions in World War II?
Might have been David McCampbell

2. What is the name of the first female reported to have been struck by a meteorite?
Ann Elizabeth Hodges (1923 - 1972) of Sylacauga, Alabama is the only person of record to have been hit by a meteorite.

3. Who was the first person to announce on network television that President John F. Kennedy had been shot?
Alan Jackson is thought to have been the first newscaster to announce the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. According to Dan Rather in his book The Camera Never Blinks, Rather advised Jackson from Dallas that there were unconfirmed reports that the President was dead; Jackson immediately went on air with the announcement.

4. What is the only animal that can see both ultra-violet and infra-red light?
The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infrared and ultra-violet light

5. Who was the first person to take his shirt off on television?
Some European I imagine as nudity has been on television there far longer than the US.

6. What was the first city in the United States to use 911 as an emergency telephone number?
The first US 911 emergency phone system was set up in Alabama in 1968.

7. Who was the first pilot to land a plane onto a ship?
Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning, DSC (17th July 1892 - 7th August 1917) was the first pilot to land an aircraft on a moving ship.

8. Who was the only vice president of the United States who wasn't white?
No exactly an African American but Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996), born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in Towson, Maryland.
The 39th Vice President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard M. Nixon. His was the highest-ranking United States political office ever reached by a Greek-American citizen.

9. How much did it cost to bury Rembrandt?
Not very much I wouldn’t think, Rembrandt died soon after his son, on October 4, 1669 in Amsterdam, and was buried in an unmarked grave in Westerkerk.

10. How much did Rembrandts first painting sell for after his death?
How much his first painting sold for or the painting sold first after his death?
Some information found at Wikipedia.

2006-12-01 16:34:20 · answer #1 · answered by Yellowstonedogs 7 · 3 0

2- Hulett Hodges
5- henry Morgan
9- $5.20
6- haleyville

Sorry but those are the ones I know.
Cheers

2006-12-01 15:53:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

chuck yeager
unk
walter cronkite
owl
m.jackson
LA
chuck yeager
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2006-12-01 15:53:12 · answer #3 · answered by ticketoride04 5 · 0 0

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