History Quiz on First in the World with Answers - Round 1 to 7


HISTORY Quiz
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan
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Quiz on First in the World with Answers - 1

1.      Who was the First President of United States of America?
2.      Who was the First President of the Republic of China?
3.      Who was the First President of India?
4.      Who was the First woman Prime Minister of England?
5.      Who was the First woman Prime Minister of Sri Lanka?
6.      Who was the First woman Prime Minister of India?
7.      Who was the First woman Prime Minister of Pakistan?
8.      Name the world first pregnant man?
9.      Who made the first English Dictionary in 1552?
10.  When was the first detergent developed?
11.  Which German scientist developed the first detergent?
12.  When was the first metal coin made?
13.  Who wrote the first encyclopaedia in 338 B.C.?
14.  Name the first country to host the modern Olympic Games.
15.  Name the first country to send human to the Moon.

Answer to Quiz on First in the World 1

1.      George Washington.
2.      Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
3.      Dr. Rajendra Prasad,
4.      Margaret Thatcher.
5.      S. Bandaranayke.
6.      Indra Gandhi.
7.      Benazir Bhutto.
8.      Thomas Beatie.
9.      Richard Huloet.
10.  1916.
11.  Fritz Guntherin.
12.  800 B.C.
13.  Speusippus- The brother of Plato. 
14.  Greece.
15.  USA.


Quiz on First in the World with Answers -2

1.      Where and when was the first fair of the world held?
2.      When was the first Space Shuttle, ‘Columbia’ launched?
3.      When was the first Skylab Project of USA launched?
4.      Which country launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite in 1957?
5.      Who is the first person in the world to sail around the world?
6.      Who built the first Planetarium in 1923?
7.      Name the first city to be attacked with an Atom bomb?
8.      Which country launched the first Radio Telescope Satellite into space?
9.      Name the first to climb Mt. Everest.
10.  Name the first person to die in space flight.
11.  Name the first person to observe sun spot.
12.  Which is the world first National Park?
13.  Name the first Zoo to display Marine Life to the public.
14.  Name the first space ship landed on Mars.
15.  Who is the first person to fly an aeroplane?

Answer to Quiz on First in the World 2

1.      Hyde Park, London, 1851
2.      12th April, 1981
3.      14th May, 1973
4.      Russia
5.      Ferdinand Magellan
6.      Walther Bauersteld
7.      Hiroshima (Japan)
8.      Japan
9.      Junko Tabei (Japan)
10.  Col. Komrov
11.  Galileo
12.  Yellowstone National Park
13.  London Zoo
14.  Viking –I, July, 1976
15.   Wright Brothers


Quiz on First in the World with Answers -3

1.      Name the first European to visit China.
2.      Which animal is the first animal to be domesticated in the world?
3.      What is the name of the first wind-driven commercial ship?
4.      Name the first man to set foot on the Moon.
5.      Name the first woman to reach the North Pole.
6.      Name the first woman to reach Antarctica.
7.      Name the first woman Space Tourist.
8.      Name the first woman president of UN General Assembly.
9.      Name the first woman cosmonaut in space.
10.  Name the first country to print books.
11.  Name the first country to start Civil Services Competition.
12.  Name the first country to issue paper currency.
13.  Name the first country to win the world cup Football.
14.  Name the first country to make a constitution.
15.  Name the first country to make education compulsory.

Answer to Quiz on First in the World 3

1.      Marco Polo.
2.      Dog.
3.      Shin Aituko Maru.
4.      Nell Armstrong, U.S.A.
5.      Ms. Fran.
6.      Caroline Michelson.
7.      Mrs. Anousheh Ansari.
8.      Smt. Vijayalakshmi Pandit, 1953.
9.      Valentine Tereshkova, USSR.
10.  China.
11.  China.
12.  China.
13.  Uruguay, 1930.
14.  USA.
15.  Prussia.


Quiz on First in the World with Answers -4

1.      Who is the first man to win the Nobel Prize for Peace?
2.      Who is the first man to win the Nobel Prize for Physics?
3.      Who is the first man to win the Nobel Prize for Medical Science?
4.      Who is the first man to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
5.      Who is the first man to win the Nobel Prize for Economics?
6.      Who is the first man to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
7.      Name the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
8.      What was the first religion of the world?
9.      Name the first men to climb Mt. Everest.
10.  Name the first men to reach North Pole.
11.  Name the first men to reach the South Pole.
12.  Who is the first person to recognize the problem of water pollution?
13.  Who is the first person to study the effect of chemical nutrients on plant growth?
14.  Name the first mammal to be cloned in the world.
15.  Who is the first person to establish the link between cancer and smoking?


Answer to Quiz on First in the World 4

1.      Jean H. Dunant, Switzerland, & Frederic Peiry, France.
2.      Wilhelm C. Roentgen, Germany.
3.      A.E. Von Behring, Germany.
4.      Jacobs H. Wenthoff, Holland.
5.      Ranger fish, Norway, & John Tinbergen, Holland.
6.      Rene F.A. & Suilt Pradhom, France.
7.      Marie Curie.
8.      Santosh Dharma.
9.      Tenzin Norgay Sherpa & Sir Edmund Hillary, 29th May, 1953.
10.  Robert E. Peary, USA, (1909).
11.  Ronald Amundsen, Norway,  (1911).
12.  Hippocrates.
13.  Justus Liebig.
14.  Sheep.
15.  Richard Doll.



Quiz on First in the World with Answers -5

1.      Where is the world first permanent underground disposal site for nuclear waste located?
2.      Which country first used the geothermal energy to generate electricity?
3.      Who is the first man to go into space?
4.      Who is the first Governor General of Pakistan?
5.      Name the first man to draw the map of earth.
6.      Which Russian (Soviet) Prime Minister first visited India?
7.      Name the first University of the world.
8.      Who was the first secretary general of the United Nations?
9.      Name the first male Space Tourist?
10.  Who was the first Governor General of India?
11.  Name the first Test Tube Baby of India.
12.  Name the first Indian to climb Mt. Everest without using Oxygen cylinder.
13.  Name the first Prime Minister of Independent India.
14.  When was first Olympiad in Greece held?
15.  Name the first woman to reach North Pole.
Answer to Quiz on First in the World 5

1.      Near Stockholm
2.      Italy
3.      Major Yuri Gagarin, USSR
4.      Mohammed Ali Jinnah
5.      Anaximander
6.      V.I. Bulganin
7.      Taxila University
8.      Robert Walpole
9.      Dennis Tito
0.      Lord William Benthic (1833-35)
10.  Indira (Baby Harsha)
11.  Sherpa Phu Dorji
12.  Pt. Jawaharlal Lal Nehru
13.  776 BC
14.  Mrs. Karoline Mikkelsen, Norway, (1935)


Quiz on First in the World with Answers -6

1.      Name the first woman to reach the South Pole.
2.      Name the first man to sail around the world.
3.      Who was the first woman Cosmonaut to travel to Space?
4.      Name the first man to have skied to both North and South Poles, and climbed Mount Everest.
5.      Name the first woman to climb Mount Everest.
6.      Name the first movie star to appear on a postage stamp?
7.      Name the first woman to take tobacco in a mixture of snuff.
8.      Name the first woman to sail around the world from Asia.
9.      Name the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1928.
10.  Name the first person to make the map of the world.
11.  Name the first Japanese journalist to go into space in 1990.
12.  Name the first Indian woman to scale Mount Everest.
13.  Name the first lady to start the Girl Guides Movement in 1910.
14.  Name the first ruler of the Holy Roman Empire?
15.  Name the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence.

Answer to Quiz on First in the World 6

0.      Mrs. Fran Phipps, Canada, 1971
1.      Ferdinand Magellan, Portugal
2.      Valentina Tereshkova
3.      Erring Kagge, Norway, 1994
4.      Junko Tabei, Japan, 1975
5.      Grace Kelly
6.      Catherine de Medici, from Europe
7.      Ujwala Patil
8.      Amelia Ear hart
9.      Ptolemy, 150 A.D
10.  Toyohiro Akyama
11.  Bacchendri Pal, 1984
12.  Lady Agnes Baden-Powell
13.  Charlemagne
14.  John Hancock, the president of Congress


Quiz on First in the World with Answers -7

1.      Name the first European in America to see the Pacific Ocean.
2.      Name the first writer to produce a significant work in a vernacular language
3.      Name the first Republican President of America.
4.      Name the first explorer to reach the South Pole.
5.      Name the first man from Pakistan to receive the Nobel Prize
6.      Name the first woman Prime Minister of Britain.
7.      Name the first Secretary General of the UNO.
8.      Name the first person to write the modern detective story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ published in 1841.
9.      Name the first drug ever used to treat malaria.
10.  Name the first person to travel in space.
11.  Name the first man to use a parachute in 1797 in Paris.
12.  Name the first person to discover blood circulation in the human body.
13.  Name the first person to invent Barometer in 1643.
14.  Name the first person to create world’s first jigsaw puzzles.
15.  Name the first golf course.

Answer to Quiz on First in the World 7

1.      Balboa
2.      Dante
3.      Abraham Lincoln
4.      Cap. Ronald Amundsen
5.      Abdul Salam
6.      Margaret Thatcher
7.      Trygve Lie
8.      Edgar Allan Poe
9.      Quinine
10.  Yuri Gagarin
11.  André-Jacques Garnerin
12.  William Harvey
13.  Evangelista Torricelli
14.  Map maker John Salisbury
15.  St. Andrews

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