A list of 35 general knowledge questions for everything first in the world that will definitely improve your GK. These questions are the type of “who was the first in the world” and “which was the first in the world”.
Questions and their answers are colored for the purpose of learning it easily.
1. Which was the first country to print a book…?
China
2. Who was the first president of the U.S.A…?
George Washington
3. Which was the first country to win a football world cup…?
Uruguay
4. Which was the first country to prepare the constitution…?
The United States of America
5. Who was the first person to fly an airplane…?
Wright brothers (Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright)
6. Which was the first country to use paper money…?
China
7. Who was the first person to land on the moon…?
Neil Armstrong
8. Which was the first spacecraft to reach on the mass…?
Viking-I
9. Who was the first U.S. president to resign from the presidency…?
Richard Nixon
10. Who was the first person to reach the north pole…?
Robert Peary (1909)
11. Who was the first person to reach the south pole…?
Roald Amundsen
12. Which was the first country to win a cricket world cup…?
West Indies
13. Who was the first person to climb on Mount-Everest…?
Edmund Hillary
14. Which was the first country to launch an artificial satellite in space…?
Russia
15. Who was the first person to sail around the world…?
Ferdinand Magellan
16. Who was the first woman Olympic marathon champion…?
Joan Benoit, in 1984 California (United States)
17. Who was the first man to draw a map of the earth…?
Anaximander
18. Who was the first woman president of a country…?
Marma Estela Peron (Argentina)
19. Who was the first woman to climb on Mount-Everest…?
Junko Tabei (Japan)
20. Who was the first woman cosmonaut in the world…?
Valentina Tereshkova
21. Who was the first person to win Nobel Prize for physics…?
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1901 Germany)
22. Who was the first person to win a Nobel prize for chemistry…?
Jacobus Henricus Van ‘t Hoff (1901 Netherland)
23. Who was the first person to win a Nobel prize for medicine…?
Emil Adolf von Behring (1901 Germany)
24. Who was the first person to win a Nobel prize for peace…?
Henry Dunant and Frederic Passy (shared Nobel prize)
25. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel prize…?
Marie Curie (1903 in Physics) (-Marie Curie again got a Nobel prize in chemistry in 2011. She was the first and only person to win Nobel prizes in two different fields.)
26. Who was the woman to win a Nobel prize in medicine…?
Gerty Theresa Cori (1947)
27. Who was the first woman prime minister in the world…?
Sirimavo Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka)
28. Who was the first human being to travel into space…?
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
29. The first country which printed the first book? (Check:- Best Property Investment Books)
China
28. Who was the first governor-general of the united nations…?
Trygve Lie
30. Who was the first space tourist in the world…?
Dennis Anthony Tito
31. Who was the first European to visit China…?
Marco Polo
32. Which was the first motion picture film (movie) in the world…?
Roundhay Garden Scene(1888)
33. Who was the first woman to reach Antarctica ….?
Caroline Mikkelsen(1935)
34. Who was the first man to win Oscar for actor …?
Emil Jannings
35. Who was the first woman to win Oscar for the best actress…?
Janet Gaynor
So these were the most important 35 general knowledge questions for the first in the world topic. I hope you have liked it. If you want to ask or share something regarding the general knowledge, comment below.
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