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Who was the first American to orbit Earth?
A. John Glenn
B. Buzz Aldrin
C. Neil Armstrong
D. Alan Shepard
Correct Answer: A
John Glenn orbited Earth aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.
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Who was the first person to orbit Earth?
A. Yuri Gagarin
B. John Glenn
C. Alan Shepard
D. Neil Armstrong
Correct Answer: A
Gagarin completed one orbit aboard Vostok 1 in 1961.
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Which was the first country to adopt a written national constitution still in force today?
A. Switzerland
B. United Kingdom
C. United States
D. France
Correct Answer: C
The U.S. Constitution was drafted in 1787 and remains in force, with amendments.
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Who was the first Asian Nobel laureate?
A. C. V. Raman
B. Rabindranath Tagore
C. Amartya Sen
D. Mother Teresa
Correct Answer: B
Tagore won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Which country was the first to use paper money on a large scale historically?
A. Britain
B. Rome
C. Egypt
D. China
Correct Answer: D
Paper currency developed in China and was used extensively by the Song dynasty.
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Who was the first woman to serve as prime minister of a country?
A. Golda Meir
B. Margaret Thatcher
C. Sirimavo Bandaranaike
D. Indira Gandhi
Correct Answer: C
Sirimavo Bandaranaike became Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1960.
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Who was the first person to reach the South Pole?
A. Ernest Shackleton
B. Edmund Hillary
C. Roald Amundsen
D. Robert Falcon Scott
Correct Answer: C
Amundsen's Norwegian expedition reached the South Pole in December 1911.
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Which was the first successful powered, controlled airplane flight generally credited in aviation history?
A. Wright Flyer flight by Orville and Wilbur Wright
B. Bell X-1 flight
C. Spirit of St. Louis flight
D. Concorde flight
Correct Answer: A
The Wright brothers achieved sustained powered controlled flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.
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Who was the first President of the United States?
A. George Washington
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. John Adams
Correct Answer: A
George Washington became the first U.S. president in 1789.
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Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
A. Bessie Coleman
B. Amelia Earhart
C. Harriet Quimby
D. Valentina Tereshkova
Correct Answer: B
Amelia Earhart completed the solo transatlantic flight in 1932.
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Who completed the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean?
A. Wright brothers
B. Howard Hughes
C. Amelia Earhart
D. Charles Lindbergh
Correct Answer: D
Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris in 1927.
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Which country launched the first artificial satellite?
A. France
B. United States
C. China
D. Soviet Union
Correct Answer: D
Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
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Which was the first artificial satellite placed in Earth orbit?
A. Sputnik 1
B. Vostok 1
C. Apollo 8
D. Explorer 1
Correct Answer: A
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957.
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Who was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations?
A. Trygve Lie
B. Dag Hammarskjöld
C. Kurt Waldheim
D. U Thant
Correct Answer: A
Norwegian diplomat Trygve Lie served as the first UN Secretary-General.
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Which country was the first to grant women the right to vote in national parliamentary elections?
A. United Kingdom
B. United States
C. New Zealand
D. France
Correct Answer: C
New Zealand granted women parliamentary voting rights in 1893.
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Who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes?
A. Niels Bohr
B. Albert Einstein
C. Linus Pauling
D. Marie Curie
Correct Answer: D
Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911).
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Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A. Marie Curie
B. Mother Teresa
C. Dorothy Hodgkin
D. Rosalind Franklin
Correct Answer: A
Marie Curie won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Who was the first woman in space?
A. Mae Jemison
B. Sally Ride
C. Svetlana Savitskaya
D. Valentina Tereshkova
Correct Answer: D
Valentina Tereshkova flew aboard Vostok 6 in 1963.
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Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
A. Michael Collins
B. Yuri Gagarin
C. Neil Armstrong
D. Buzz Aldrin
Correct Answer: C
Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon during Apollo 11 in July 1969.
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Who was the first human to travel into outer space?
A. Yuri Gagarin
B. Alan Shepard
C. Neil Armstrong
D. John Glenn
Correct Answer: A
Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961.