Famous Firsts

General Knowledge · 10 questions

Who or what did it first? Pioneers, discoveries and world premieres.

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1. Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?

   1. Neil Armstrong
   2. Buzz Aldrin
   3. Yuri Gagarin
   4. Alan Shepard
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   A) Neil Armstrong

2. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

   1. Rosalind Franklin
   2. Dorothy Hodgkin
   3. Ada Lovelace
   4. Marie Curie
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   D) Marie Curie

3. Which explorer led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe (completed after his death)?

   1. Christopher Columbus
   2. Ferdinand Magellan
   3. Vasco da Gama
   4. James Cook
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   B) Ferdinand Magellan

4. Which country was the first to give women the right to vote in national elections (1893)?

   1. United Kingdom
   2. United States
   3. New Zealand
   4. Finland
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   C) New Zealand

5. Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?

   1. Tim Berners-Lee
   2. Bill Gates
   3. Vint Cerf
   4. Steve Jobs
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   A) Tim Berners-Lee

6. Which animal was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell?

   1. Snuppy the dog
   2. Dolly the sheep
   3. Cumulina the mouse
   4. Copycat the cat
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   B) Dolly the sheep

7. Which was the first artificial satellite launched into orbit?

   1. Explorer 1
   2. Vostok 1
   3. Sputnik 1
   4. Telstar 1
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   C) Sputnik 1

8. Which city hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896?

   1. Paris
   2. London
   3. Rome
   4. Athens
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   D) Athens

9. The first Harry Potter book was published in the 1990s.

   1. True
   2. False
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   A) True

10. Thomas Edison invented the very first electric light bulb from scratch.

    1. True
    2. False
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    B) False