World’s First – Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who invented the world’s first telephone?
A) Alexander Graham Bell
B) Thomas Edison
C) Nikola Tesla
D) Michael Faraday
✅ Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
2. Which country launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik 1?
A) USA
B) Russia (USSR)
C) Germany
D) China
✅ Answer: Russia (USSR)
3. What was the name of the world’s first computer?
A) UNIVAC
B) ENIAC
C) Mark I
D) Altair
✅ Answer: ENIAC
4. Who was the first person to step on the Moon?
A) Buzz Aldrin
B) Neil Armstrong
C) Yuri Gagarin
D) Michael Collins
✅ Answer: Neil Armstrong
5. Which is the world’s first university?
A) Nalanda University
B) Takshashila University
C) Oxford University
D) Bologna University
✅ Answer: Takshashila University
6. Who made the world’s first airplane?
A) Wright Brothers
B) Alexander Fleming
C) Henry Ford
D) Charles Babbage
✅ Answer: Wright Brothers
7. What was the world’s first country to grant women the right to vote?
A) USA
B) Finland
C) New Zealand
D) Canada
✅ Answer: New Zealand
8. Which country printed the first paper money?
A) China
B) India
C) Egypt
D) Greece
✅ Answer: China
9. Who was the first man in space?
A) Yuri Gagarin
B) Neil Armstrong
C) Rakesh Sharma
D) John Glenn
✅ Answer: Yuri Gagarin
10. Which is the world’s first artificial satellite?
A) Explorer 1
B) Sputnik 1
C) Voyager 1
D) Apollo 11
✅ Answer: Sputnik 1
11. Which is the first city in the world to host the Olympics?
A) Paris
B) London
C) Athens
D) Rome
✅ Answer: Athens
12. What was the first vaccine ever developed for?
A) Cholera
B) Smallpox
C) Polio
D) Tuberculosis
✅ Answer: Smallpox
13. Who invented the first electric bulb?
A) Thomas Edison
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) James Watt
D) Graham Bell
✅ Answer: Thomas Edison
14. Which was the world’s first country to have a constitution?
A) USA
B) France
C) England
D) India
✅ Answer: USA
15. Who wrote the world’s first novel “The Tale of Genji”?
A) Murasaki Shikibu
B) Homer
C) Shakespeare
D) Tolstoy
✅ Answer: Murasaki Shikibu
16. What was the world’s first cloned animal?
A) Cow
B) Sheep (Dolly)
C) Dog
D) Monkey
✅ Answer: Sheep (Dolly)
17. Which country started the first railway system?
A) England
B) USA
C) France
D) Japan
✅ Answer: England
18. Which was the first manned mission to the Moon?
A) Apollo 11
B) Apollo 12
C) Apollo 10
D) Apollo 13
✅ Answer: Apollo 11
19. What was the first message sent over the internet?
A) Hello World
B) Login
C) Lo
D) Hi
✅ Answer: Lo
20. Which was the world’s first country to industrialize?
A) USA
B) England
C) Germany
D) Japan
✅ Answer: England
21. Who was the first person to discover gravity?
A) Galileo
B) Isaac Newton
C) Einstein
D) Kepler
✅ Answer: Isaac Newton
22. Who built the world’s first steam engine?
A) James Watt
B) George Stephenson
C) Rudolf Diesel
D) Robert Fulton
✅ Answer: James Watt
23. Which was the first country to launch a man-made satellite?
A) USSR
B) USA
C) India
D) Japan
✅ Answer: USSR
24. What was the world’s first email message?
A) Test 123
B) Hello
C) QWERTY
D) Random letters
✅ Answer: Random letters
25. Who was the first woman in space?
A) Valentina Tereshkova
B) Kalpana Chawla
C) Sally Ride
D) Peggy Whitson
✅ Answer: Valentina Tereshkova
26. Who invented the first printing press?
A) Johannes Gutenberg
B) Thomas Edison
C) Galileo
D) Newton
✅ Answer: Johannes Gutenberg
27. Which was the first country to host the FIFA World Cup?
A) Brazil
B) Uruguay
C) Italy
D) France
✅ Answer: Uruguay
28. Which was the first country to use nuclear power for electricity?
A) USA
B) USSR
C) UK
D) Canada
✅ Answer: USSR
29. Who was the first President of the United States?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) George Washington
C) John Adams
D) Thomas Jefferson
✅ Answer: George Washington
30. What was the world’s first feature film?
A) The Story of the Kelly Gang
B) The Great Train Robbery
C) Birth of a Nation
D) Gone With the Wind
✅ Answer: The Story of the Kelly Gang
31. Who invented the first camera?
A) Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
B) Louis Daguerre
C) Eastman Kodak
D) Charles Babbage
✅ Answer: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
32. Which is the world’s first democracy?
A) Greece
B) Rome
C) France
D) USA
✅ Answer: Greece
33. Which was the world’s first airline?
A) KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
B) Lufthansa
C) British Airways
D) Air France
✅ Answer: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
34. What was the first country to introduce paper?
A) China
B) Japan
C) Egypt
D) India
✅ Answer: China
35. Which is the first country to legalize same-sex marriage?
A) Canada
B) Netherlands
C) France
D) Spain
✅ Answer: Netherlands
36. Who was the first man to climb Mount Everest?
A) Edmund Hillary
B) Tenzing Norgay
C) George Mallory
D) Reinhold Messner
✅ Answer: Edmund Hillary
37. What was the world’s first YouTube video titled?
A) Me at the Zoo
B) First Vlog
C) Welcome to YouTube
D) Hello World
✅ Answer: Me at the Zoo
38. Who invented the first car?
A) Karl Benz
B) Henry Ford
C) Rudolf Diesel
D) James Watt
✅ Answer: Karl Benz
39. Which is the world’s first search engine?
A) Google
B) Yahoo
C) Archie
D) AltaVista
✅ Answer: Archie
40. Who invented the first mobile phone?
A) Martin Cooper
B) Steve Jobs
C) Bill Gates
D) Tim Berners-Lee
✅ Answer: Martin Cooper
41. Which is the world’s first smartphone?
A) IBM Simon
B) iPhone
C) Nokia 9000
D) Blackberry
✅ Answer: IBM Simon
42. Which was the world’s first country to ban plastic bags?
A) Bangladesh
B) India
C) Sweden
D) Canada
✅ Answer: Bangladesh
43. Who was the first Indian in space?
A) Kalpana Chawla
B) Rakesh Sharma
C) Sunita Williams
D) Vikram Sarabhai
✅ Answer: Rakesh Sharma
44. Which is the first country to host the Olympic Games twice?
A) France
B) Greece
C) England
D) USA
✅ Answer: France
45. Who was the first person to circumnavigate the Earth?
A) Ferdinand Magellan
B) Vasco da Gama
C) Marco Polo
D) Columbus
✅ Answer: Ferdinand Magellan
46. What was the world’s first social media platform?
A) Facebook
B) MySpace
C) SixDegrees
D) Orkut
✅ Answer: SixDegrees
47. Who invented the first computer mouse?
A) Douglas Engelbart
B) Steve Jobs
C) Charles Babbage
D) Bill Gates
✅ Answer: Douglas Engelbart
48. What was the first country to launch a Mars mission successfully?
A) USA
B) USSR
C) India
D) China
✅ Answer: USA
49. Which is the world’s first digital currency?
A) Ethereum
B) Bitcoin
C) Ripple
D) Litecoin
✅ Answer: Bitcoin
50. Who created the first website in the world?
A) Tim Berners-Lee
B) Bill Gates
C) Steve Jobs
D) Larry Page
✅ Answer: Tim Berners-Lee
