What was the subject of the first photograph ever taken?
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A bustling city street
A tree-lined boulevard
A view from an upstairs window
A busy market square
Which war is captured in the earliest known war photograph?
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American Civil War
Crimean War
World War I
Mexican-American War
What famous shipwreck was first photographed underwater in 1911?
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RMS Titanic
USS Maine
RMS Lusitania
SS Great Eastern
Who took the iconic photo “Migrant Mother” during the Great Depression?
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Ansel Adams
Margaret Bourke-White
Dorothea Lange
Gordon Parks
Which event was the focus of the oldest known aerial photograph?
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Boston, as a city
The aftermath of an earthquake
A royal parade
A battlefield
What groundbreaking technology was used to take the first color photograph?
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Autochrome
Tintype
Daguerreotype
Calotype
Which President of the United States was the first to be photographed while in office?
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George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
John Quincy Adams
James Polk
In what year was the first photographic image of Earth from space taken?
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1946
1959
1961
1972
What iconic structure is featured in the oldest surviving photograph of New York City?
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Statue of Liberty
Empire State Building
Brooklyn Bridge
Central Park
Who captured the first known photographs of the South Pole?
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Robert Falcon Scott
Roald Amundsen
Ernest Shackleton
Herbert Ponting
Who took the first known photograph of Machu Picchu?
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Hiram Bingham
Che Guevara
Alberto Korda
Annie Leibovitz
What year was the iconic Times Square Kiss photograph taken?
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1941
1945
1950
1960
Which photographic process was invented by Louis Daguerre?
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Daguerreotype
Collodion
Tintype
Polaroid
Who photographed the construction of the Empire State Building?
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Lewis Hine
Margaret Bourke-White
Ansel Adams
Dorothea Lange
What was the first major conflict to be photographed?
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Crimean War
American Civil War
Franco-Prussian War
World War I
Which explorer’s expedition was famously captured by Frank Hurley?
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Robert Falcon Scott
Roald Amundsen
Ernest Shackleton
Richard Byrd
What was the first animal to be photographed?
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Horse
Cat
Dog
Bird
Who captured the first photographs of Yosemite National Park?
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Ansel Adams
Carleton Watkins
Edward Weston
William Henry Jackson
Which historical event was captured in the photo “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima”?
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Pearl Harbor attack
D-Day landings
Battle of Midway
Battle of Iwo Jima
What was the main subject of the earliest known photograph taken in Africa?
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A marketplace
A village
A river
A desert
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