| First word of "Stairway to Heaven" | 44 |
| First word of "Send in the Clowns" | 44 |
| First word of "Scarborough Fair" | 42 |
| First word of "Rock Around the Clock" | 47 |
| First word of "Richard III" | 37 |
| First word of "Paul Revere's Ride" | 48 |
| First word of "Old Folks at Home" | 43 |
| First word of "Nowhere Man" | 37 |
| First word of "Marseillaise" | 38 |
| First word of "Lycidas" | 33 |
| First word of "Jabberwocky" | 37 |
| First word of "Huckleberry Finn" | 42 |
| First word of "Home, Sweet Home" | 42 |
| First word of "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" | 49 |
| First word of "Greensleeves" | 38 |
| First word of "Citizen Kane" | 38 |
| First word of "Cheek to Cheek" | 40 |
| First word of "Blowin' in the Wind" | 49 |
| First word of "Billie Jean" | 37 |
| First word of "Aeneid" | 32 |
| First word of "A Lost Chord" | 38 |
| First word of "A Hard Day's Night" | 48 |
| First word of 'Send in the Clowns' | 42 |
| First word of ''The Raven'' | 43 |
| First word of ''The Aeneid'' | 44 |
| First word of ''Nowhere Man'' | 45 |
| First word of ''Cheek to Cheek'' | 48 |
| First word learned by Helen Keller | 34 |
| First word in U2's "Vertigo" | 42 |
| First word in the Treasure State's motto | 44 |
| First word in the Lord's Prayer | 35 |
| First word in the first crossword | 33 |
| First word in Oregon's motto | 32 |
| First word in North Carolina's motto | 40 |
| First word in Montana's motto | 33 |
| First word in Massachusetts' motto | 38 |
| First word in many newspaper names | 34 |
| First word in many a California city name | 41 |
| First word in Connecticut's motto | 37 |
| First word in children's stories | 36 |
| First word in a tropical drink name | 35 |
| First word in a Travolta film title | 35 |
| First word in a tongue twister about seashells | 46 |
| First word in a story from Clement Clarke Moore | 47 |
| First word in a Springsteen title | 33 |
| First word in a George Bush quote | 33 |
| First word in a Ewan McGregor title | 35 |
| First word in a Dostoyevsky title | 33 |
| First word in a D.H. Lawrence title | 35 |
| First word in a children's selection rhyme | 46 |
| First word in a celebratory song title | 38 |
| First word in a celebratory song | 32 |
| First word in a borough's name | 34 |
| First word in "Would It Be Loverly?" | 46 |
| First word in "The Banana Boat Song" | 46 |
| First word in "Send in the Clowns" | 44 |
| First word after a sneeze, often | 32 |
| First woman to win Best Director | 32 |
| First woman to teach at the Sorbonne | 36 |
| First woman to swim the English Channel | 39 |
| First woman to sit in Parliament | 32 |
| First woman to sit as a member of Parliament | 44 |
| First woman to lead a seat-winning Federal Party | 48 |
| First woman to land a triple axel in competition | 48 |
| First woman to host the Oscars solo | 35 |
| First woman to fly across the Atlantic | 38 |
| First woman to be named Attorney General | 40 |
| First woman on the Supreme Court | 32 |
| First woman in the House of Commons | 35 |
| First woman in the British Parliament | 37 |
| First woman director of U.S. Mint | 33 |
| First woman director of the U.S. Mint | 37 |
| First winner of consecutive Oscars | 34 |
| First winner of a Best Animated Feature Oscar | 45 |
| First Western televised in color | 32 |
| First volume of an encyclopedia, perhaps | 40 |
| First video broadcast on MTV2 (8/1/96) | 38 |
| First vehicle in a funeral procession | 37 |
| First variable star to be discovered | 36 |
| First US university to award a Ph.D. | 36 |
| First United States vice president | 34 |
| First U.S. woman governor __ Tayloe Ross | 40 |
| First U.S. vice president not to become president | 49 |
| First U.S. state to abolish slavery | 35 |
| First U.S. screen portrayer of Dr. Fu Manchu | 44 |
| First U.S. pres. to travel in a submarine | 41 |
| First U.S. paper to run KenKen puzzles | 38 |
| First U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame gymnast | 39 |
| First U.S. journalist to interview Gorbachev | 44 |
| First U.S. college to give degrees to women | 43 |
| First U.S. college to award degrees to women | 44 |
| First U.S. astronaut to circle the earth | 40 |
| First two words of a 1964 Impressions hit | 41 |
| First two words of "Waltzing Matilda" | 47 |
| First two words of "Green Eggs and Ham" | 49 |
| First two words of "Dixie," often | 43 |
| First two reindeer named in Rudolph's song | 46 |
| First two of "three little words" | 43 |
| First two notes of a descending scale | 37 |
| First TV series to show a baby being born, 1955 | 47 |