Which came first? · Counterintuitive
Which came first: the Boston Tea Party or The jigsaw puzzle?
The jigsaw puzzle came first, in c. 1760 (invented). The Boston Tea Party followed about 13 years later, in 1773.
- Second1773
The Boston Tea Party
event · happenedProtesters dumped about 340 chests of East India Company tea into Boston Harbor in December 1773.
- Firstc. 1760
The jigsaw puzzle
game · inventedJigsaw puzzles began around 1760 as wooden maps cut into pieces to teach children geography.
More pairs that fool people
- Which came first: the Boston Tea Party or the birth of Mozart?
- Which came first: The jigsaw puzzle or Pepsi?
- Which came first: the Boston Tea Party or The Encyclopaedia Britannica?
- Which came first: the Boston Tea Party or Columbia University?
- Which came first: The jigsaw puzzle or the US Declaration of Independence?
- Which came first: The jigsaw puzzle or Washington, D.C.?
- Which came first: the Guinness brewery or Miami?
- Which came first: the Guinness brewery or Swan Lake?
All which-came-first pairs · About Older Than You Think · Quiz games
Years from Wikidata, each checked against the item’s English Wikipedia article on 2026-10-18. A year stands for what its label says: a founding, a first patent, a premiere.