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Question 1: Who was the first person to climb Mount Everest?
A) George Mallory
B) Reinhold Messner
C) Edmund Hillary
D) Tenzing Norgay
Explanation: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953.
Question 2: Who was the first person to set foot on the Moon?
A) Yuri Gagarin
B) Neil Armstrong
C) Buzz Aldrin
D) Michael Collins
Explanation: Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969, during the Apollo 11 mission.
Question 3: Who was the first person to reach space?
A) Yuri Gagarin
B) Alan Shepard
C) Neil Armstrong
D) Valentina Tereshkova
Explanation: Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to space on April 12, 1961, aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
Question 4: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Bertha von Suttner
B) Marie Curie
C) Mother Teresa
D) Florence Nightingale
Explanation: Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for her groundbreaking research on radioactivity.
Question 5: Who was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic?
A) Amelia Earhart
B) Charles Lindbergh
C) Wiley Post
D) Alcock and Brown
Explanation: Charles Lindbergh achieved the first solo transatlantic flight in 1927, flying from New York to Paris.
Question 6: Who was the first person to invent the telephone?
A) Thomas Edison
B) Guglielmo Marconi
C) Nikola Tesla
D) Alexander Graham Bell
Explanation: Alexander Graham Bell invented the first practical telephone in 1876.
Question 7: Who was the first woman to climb Mount Everest?
A) Junko Tabei
B) Arunima Sinha
C) Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
D) Bachendri Pal
Explanation: Junko Tabei of Japan became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1975.
Question 8: Who was the first person to swim across the English Channel?
A) Gertrude Ederle
B) Florence Chadwick
C) Matthew Webb
D) Lynne Cox
Explanation: Captain Matthew Webb swam across the English Channel in 1875.
Question 9: Who was the first person to propose the heliocentric model of the universe?
A) Nicolaus Copernicus
B) Galileo Galilei
C) Johannes Kepler
D) Isaac Newton
Explanation: Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the heliocentric model in the 16th century, revolutionizing astronomy.
Question 10: Who was the first person to sail around the world solo?
A) Christopher Columbus
B) Ferdinand Magellan
C) Joshua Slocum
D) Sir Francis Drake
Explanation: Joshua Slocum was the first person to sail solo around the world between 1895 and 1898.
Question 11: Who was the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle?
A) Roald Amundsen
B) Ernest Shackleton
C) Robert Falcon Scott
D) James Cook
Explanation: Roald Amundsen crossed the Antarctic Circle during his expeditions in 1911.
Question 12: Who was the first person to complete the seven summits (the highest mountains on each of the seven continents)?
A) Kilian Jornet
B) Richard Bass
C) Reinhold Messner
D) Tenzing Norgay
Explanation: Richard Bass was the first person to complete the seven summits in 1985.
Question 13: Who was the first person to break the sound barrier?
A) Chuck Yeager
B) Albert William
C) Yuri Gagarin
D) John Glenn
Explanation: Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, becoming the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.
Question 14: Who was the first female to win an Olympic gold medal?
A) Florence Griffith Joyner
B) Hélène de Pourtalès
C) Jackie Joyner-Kersee
D) Wilma Rudolph
Explanation: Hélène de Pourtalès was the first female Olympic gold medalist in 1900 at the Paris Olympics.
Question 15: Who was the first person to set foot on the South Pole?
A) Robert Falcon Scott
B) Roald Amundsen
C) Ernest Shackleton
D) James Cook
Explanation: Roald Amundsen's expedition reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
Question 16: Who was the first person to swim across the English Channel without a swimsuit?
A) Florence Chadwick
B) Annette Kellerman
C) Gertrude Ederle
D) Lynne Cox
Explanation: Annette Kellerman was the first person to swim across the English Channel without a swimsuit in 1905.
Question 17: Who was the first person to break the 4-minute mile?
A) Roger Bannister
B) Michael Johnson
C) Usain Bolt
D) Carl Lewis
Explanation: Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes on May 6, 1954.
Question 18: Who was the first person to discover the structure of DNA?
A) Albert Einstein
B) James Watson
C) Linus Pauling
D) Gregor Mendel
Explanation: James Watson, along with Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA in 1953.
Question 19: Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
A) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
B) Marie Curie
C) Rosalind Franklin
D) Ada Lovelace
Explanation: Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her work on radioactivity.
Question 20: Who was the first person to successfully fly a powered airplane?
A) Wright Brothers
B) Charles Lindbergh
C) Amelia Earhart
D) John Glenn
Explanation: The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, flew the first successful powered airplane on December 17, 1903.
Question 21: Who was the first person to receive a patent for the invention of the telephone?
A) Guglielmo Marconi
B) Alexander Graham Bell
C) Nikola Tesla
D) Thomas Edison
Explanation: Alexander Graham Bell was granted the patent for the telephone in 1876.
Question 22: Who was the first person to successfully perform a heart transplant?
A) Michael DeBakey
B) Christiaan Barnard
C) Paul Winchell
D) René Favaloro
Explanation: Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful heart transplant in 1967 in South Africa.
Question 23: Who was the first person to successfully fly a solo nonstop transatlantic flight?
A) Amelia Earhart
B) Charles Lindbergh
C) Howard Hughes
D) John Glenn
Explanation: Charles Lindbergh made the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927.
Question 24: Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic?
A) Amelia Earhart
B) Beryl Markham
C) Jacqueline Cochran
D) Ruth Nichols
Explanation: Beryl Markham was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1936.
Question 25: Who was the first person to discover the New World (America)?
A) Christopher Columbus
B) Ferdinand Magellan
C) Vasco da Gama
D) Leif Erikson
Explanation: Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering the New World (the Americas) in 1492.
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