$50 QUESTION -- Category: Tough Questions

1. Oil was struck for the first time in the Middle East at Mas jid-I-Suleiman in Iran, then called Persia.

2. Using four large hot air balloons shaped like flying pigs, the world's first regularly-scheduled "passenger airline" began flying New Yorkers between Brooklyn and the Bronx.

3. Anthracite coal was experimentally burned in a home in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, by Judge Jesse Fell. Until then, most people thought that type of coal was worthless.

   
   

   Congratulations! You got that one correct. Anthracite coal was experimentally burned in a home in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania by Judge Jesse Fell.

   The first Middle Eastern oil strike took place a century later, on May 25, 1908.

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