It's Monday... another one.

[vakkotaur]

This one might not be so easy...

Achievements

1. In 1866, his invention was a stabilized explosive originally intended for mining and excavation work.
2. In 1875, Captain Matthew Webb was the first person to do this.
3. In 1911, Roald Amundsen's group was first to reach this remote location.
4. In 1942, Enrico Fermi was in charge of the first manmade one of these.
5. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin was the first person to do this.
6. In 1967, Christiaan Barnard performed this operation successfully on a human for the first time.
7. July 20, 1969 was when this dream was realized.
8. In 1980, a United Nations body announced that this was no longer a threat in the wild.
9. In 1982, Barney Clark was the first person to use this.
10. In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee came up with this. Most heard of it in the 1990s...

1. Alfred Nobel (dynamite)
2. Swim across the English Channel
3. South Pole
4. Nuclear reactor / sustained fission reaction
5. Orbit the earth
6. Heart transplant
7. Man landing on the moon
8. Smallpox
9. Artificial heart
10. World Wide Web

Comments

[melskunk.livejournal.com]

Wow.... 7 right!
I need a life.

[jmaynard.livejournal.com]

8 right. Missed 2 entirely, and guessed the wrong pole for 3. Strictly speaking, Barney Clark was the first person to use a *total* artificial heart; there had been previous successful implantations of partial artificial hearts, usually only replacing the left side (the side that drives the entire body).

[yakko.livejournal.com]

Didn't #10 happen in 1989?

His bio says so...

D'oh!

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

How'd I mess that up? I even saw Mosaic before 1994, sheesh. Anyway, that's fixed now.

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

6 right! Or 7 if I can count my answer of "fly into space" for #5. Can I?

Whoops, in keeping with the space theme, I mistyped my answer to #6 as "heart transplanet".