1. Who was the first President of India?
a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
c) V.V. Giri
d) Zakir Hussain
Answer: a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Explanation: He served as the first President of India from 1950 to 1962.
2. Who was the first Prime Minister of India?
a) Sardar Patel
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Lal Bahadur Shastri
d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Answer: b) Jawaharlal Nehru
Explanation: Nehru became India’s first Prime Minister on 15 August 1947.
3. Who was the first Vice President of India?
a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
d) Zakir Hussain
Answer: b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
Explanation: He was India’s first Vice President (1952–1962).
4. Who was the first woman President of India?
a) Pratibha Patil
b) Indira Gandhi
c) Sarojini Naidu
d) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Answer: a) Pratibha Patil
Explanation: Pratibha Patil became India’s first woman President in 2007.
5. Who was the first woman Prime Minister of India?
a) Pratibha Patil
b) Indira Gandhi
c) Sarojini Naidu
d) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Answer: b) Indira Gandhi
Explanation: Indira Gandhi became PM in 1966 and served till 1977 (first term).
6. Who was the first Governor-General of independent India?
a) Lord Mountbatten
b) C. Rajagopalachari
c) Lord Wavell
d) Warren Hastings
Answer: a) Lord Mountbatten
Explanation: He served as India’s first Governor-General (1947–1948).
7. Who was the first Indian Governor-General of India?
a) Rajendra Prasad
b) C. Rajagopalachari
c) S. Radhakrishnan
d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: b) C. Rajagopalachari
Explanation: He became the first and last Indian Governor-General in 1948.
8. Who was the first Indian to win the Bharat Ratna?
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) C.V. Raman
c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
d) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
Answer: b) C.V. Raman
Explanation: Nobel laureate physicist C.V. Raman received Bharat Ratna in 1954.
9. Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize?
a) C.V. Raman
b) Rabindranath Tagore
c) Amartya Sen
d) Mother Teresa
Answer: b) Rabindranath Tagore
Explanation: He received Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali.
10. Who was the first Indian to win Nobel Prize in Physics?
a) Homi Bhabha
b) S. Chandrasekhar
c) C.V. Raman
d) Hargobind Khurana
Answer: c) C.V. Raman
Explanation: C.V. Raman won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for Raman Effect.
11. Who was the first Indian woman to win Nobel Prize?
a) Mother Teresa
b) Sarojini Naidu
c) Indira Gandhi
d) Amartya Sen
Answer: a) Mother Teresa
Explanation: Mother Teresa received Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for humanitarian work.
12. Who was the first Indian to go into space?
a) Kalpana Chawla
b) Rakesh Sharma
c) Sunita Williams
d) Neil Armstrong
Answer: b) Rakesh Sharma
Explanation: Rakesh Sharma flew aboard Soviet spacecraft Soyuz T-11 in 1984.
13. Who was the first Indian woman to go into space?
a) Sunita Williams
b) Kalpana Chawla
c) Pratibha Patil
d) Indira Gandhi
Answer: b) Kalpana Chawla
Explanation: Kalpana Chawla first flew to space in 1997 on Space Shuttle Columbia.
14. Who was the first Indian to receive the Oscar Award?
a) Satyajit Ray
b) Bhanu Athaiya
c) A.R. Rahman
d) Resul Pookutty
Answer: b) Bhanu Athaiya
Explanation: Bhanu Athaiya won an Oscar for costume design in Gandhi (1983).
15. Who was the first Indian film director to win an honorary Oscar?
a) Raj Kapoor
b) Satyajit Ray
c) Bimal Roy
d) Guru Dutt
Answer: b) Satyajit Ray
Explanation: Satyajit Ray received an honorary Oscar in 1992 for lifetime achievement.
16. Who was the first Indian to climb Mount Everest?
a) Tenzing Norgay
b) Bachendri Pal
c) Avtar Singh Cheema
d) Edmund Hillary
Answer: c) Avtar Singh Cheema
Explanation: He was the first Indian to climb Mount Everest in 1965.
17. Who was the first woman to climb Mount Everest?
a) Junko Tabei
b) Bachendri Pal
c) Santosh Yadav
d) Arunima Sinha
Answer: b) Bachendri Pal
Explanation: Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to summit Everest in 1984.
18. Who was the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold medal?
a) Milkha Singh
b) Abhinav Bindra
c) Leander Paes
d) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Answer: b) Abhinav Bindra
Explanation: Abhinav Bindra won gold in shooting (10m air rifle) at Beijing 2008.
19. Who was the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal?
a) Mary Kom
b) Karnam Malleswari
c) P.T. Usha
d) Saina Nehwal
Answer: b) Karnam Malleswari
Explanation: She won bronze in weightlifting at Sydney Olympics 2000.
20. Who was the first Indian to receive Magsaysay Award?
a) Vinoba Bhave
b) Mother Teresa
c) Mahatma Gandhi
d) C. Rajagopalachari
Answer: a) Vinoba Bhave
Explanation: Vinoba Bhave received the Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1958.
21. Who was the first Indian woman IPS officer?
a) Kiren Bedi
b) Kiran Majumdar Shaw
c) Indira Nooyi
d) Rani Gaidinliu
Answer: a) Kiren Bedi
Explanation: Kiran Bedi became India’s first woman IPS officer in 1972.
22. Who was the first Indian woman Chief Minister of a state?
a) Indira Gandhi
b) Sucheta Kripalani
c) Sarojini Naidu
d) Jayalalithaa
Answer: b) Sucheta Kripalani
Explanation: Sucheta Kripalani became CM of Uttar Pradesh in 1963.
23. Who was the first Indian to win the Booker Prize?
a) Arundhati Roy
b) Salman Rushdie
c) Kiran Desai
d) Jhumpa Lahiri
Answer: b) Salman Rushdie
Explanation: Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981 for Midnight’s Children.
24. Who was the first Indian woman to win the Booker Prize?
a) Kiran Desai
b) Jhumpa Lahiri
c) Arundhati Roy
d) Anita Desai
Answer: c) Arundhati Roy
Explanation: Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for The God of Small Things.
25. Who was the first Indian to become Miss World?
a) Aishwarya Rai
b) Reita Faria
c) Sushmita Sen
d) Priyanka Chopra
Answer: b) Reita Faria
Explanation: Reita Faria became the first Indian to win Miss World in 1966.
26. Who was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army after Independence?
a) Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa
b) General Manekshaw
c) General Roy Bucher
d) Field Marshal Thimayya
Answer: a) Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa
Explanation: General Cariappa took charge on 15 January 1949; that day is now celebrated as Army Day.
27. Who was the first Indian Chief of the Air Staff?
a) Subroto Mukerjee
b) Arjan Singh
c) Om Prakash Mehra
d) Aspy Engineer
Answer: a) Subroto Mukerjee
Explanation: He became the first Indian Chief of the Air Staff in 1954 after British officers retired.
28. Who was the first Indian Chief of Naval Staff?
a) R. D. Katari
b) Nilakanta Krishnan
c) Sureesh Mehta
d) Arun Prakash
Answer: a) R. D. Katari
Explanation: Vice-Admiral R. D. Katari became India’s first indigenous Naval Chief in 1958.
29. Who was the first Field Marshal of India?
a) Sam Manekshaw
b) K. M. Cariappa
c) Thimayya
d) Sundarji
Answer: a) Sam Manekshaw
Explanation: Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw was promoted in 1973 after India’s victory in the 1971 war.
30. Who was the first Indian to receive the Param Vir Chakra?
a) Major Somnath Sharma
b) Captain Vikram Batra
c) Havildar Abdul Hameed
d) Lance Naik Albert Ekka
Answer: a) Major Somnath Sharma
Explanation: He received it posthumously for gallantry in the 1947 Indo-Pak war.
31. India’s first aircraft carrier was:
a) INS Vikrant
b) INS Viraat
c) INS Arihant
d) INS Chakra
Answer: a) INS Vikrant
Explanation: Commissioned in 1961, INS Vikrant was India’s first aircraft carrier.
32. India’s first nuclear submarine is:
a) INS Arihant
b) INS Chakra
c) INS Vikrant
d) INS Kalvari
Answer: b) INS Chakra
Explanation: The leased Soviet sub (1988) was the first nuclear-powered vessel operated by India.
33. The first indigenous nuclear submarine built in India is:
a) INS Arihant
b) INS Vikramaditya
c) INS Kalvari
d) INS Chakra II
Answer: a) INS Arihant
Explanation: Launched in 2009, INS Arihant made India part of the elite group with a nuclear triad.
34. Who was the first Indian to become a Field Marshal in the Indian Army?
a) K. M. Cariappa
b) Sam Manekshaw
c) Sundarji
d) Bipin Rawat
Answer: a) K. M. Cariappa
Explanation: Although promoted later ceremonially (1986), he was India’s first Field Marshal after retirement.
35. Who was the first Indian to reach the South Pole?
a) Col. Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
b) Squadron Leader D. K. Sharma
c) Lt. Ram Charan
d) Dr. Har Govind Khorana
Answer: a) Col. Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
Explanation: He reached the South Pole in 1989 as part of the Indian Antarctic Expedition.
36. Who was the first Chief Justice of India?
a) Justice Harilal J. Kania
b) Justice M. C. Mahajan
c) Justice Patanjali Sastri
d) Justice B. K. Mukherjee
Answer: a) Justice Harilal J. Kania
Explanation: He served as the first CJI from 1950 to 1951.
37. Who was the first woman Chief Justice of a High Court in India?
a) Leila Seth
b) Fatima Beevi
c) Sujata Manohar
d) Ruma Pal
Answer: a) Leila Seth
Explanation: She became Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court in 1991.
38. Who was the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India?
a) Fatima Beevi
b) Ruma Pal
c) Indu Malhotra
d) B. V. Nagarathna
Answer: a) Fatima Beevi
Explanation: She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1989.
39. Which was the first Indian satellite launched?
a) Aryabhata
b) Bhaskara
c) INSAT-1A
d) APPLE
Answer: a) Aryabhata
Explanation: India’s first satellite Aryabhata was launched on 19 April 1975 from Russia.
40. India’s first successful nuclear test was conducted at:
a) Pokhran
b) Thumba
c) Chandipur
d) Sriharikota
Answer: a) Pokhran
Explanation: The test, codenamed Smiling Buddha, was carried out on 18 May 1974.
41. The first Indian missile developed under IGMDP was:
a) Prithvi
b) Agni
c) Akash
d) Nag
Answer: a) Prithvi
Explanation: Prithvi-I (surface-to-surface) was the first missile developed under Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam’s programme.
42. India’s first indigenously developed aircraft is:
a) Tejas
b) Marut (HF-24)
c) Kiran
d) Hansa
Answer: b) Marut (HF-24)
Explanation: Designed by Kurt Tank, HF-24 Marut (1961) was India’s first indigenous jet fighter.
43. India’s first atomic power station is located at:
a) Tarapur
b) Kalpakkam
c) Narora
d) Kakrapar
Answer: a) Tarapur
Explanation: Tarapur Atomic Power Station (Maharashtra) was commissioned in 1969.
44. India’s first supercomputer is:
a) PARAM 8000
b) PARAM Padma
c) Pratyush
d) Eka
Answer: a) PARAM 8000
Explanation: Developed by C-DAC in 1991 under Dr. Vijay Bhatkar.
45. India’s first metro rail service started in:
a) Delhi
b) Mumbai
c) Kolkata
d) Chennai
Answer: c) Kolkata
Explanation: Kolkata Metro began operation in 1984 — India’s first underground metro.
46. India’s first passenger train ran between:
a) Delhi – Agra
b) Mumbai – Thane
c) Chennai – Arakkonam
d) Kolkata – Howrah
Answer: b) Mumbai – Thane
Explanation: The first passenger train started on 16 April 1853, covering 34 km.
47. India’s first airline company was:
a) Indian Airlines
b) Tata Air Services
c) Air India
d) Kingfisher
Answer: b) Tata Air Services
Explanation: Founded by J. R. D. Tata in 1932; later renamed Air India.
48. The first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) was established at:
a) Kanpur
b) Kharagpur
c) Bombay
d) Madras
Answer: b) Kharagpur
Explanation: IIT Kharagpur was set up in 1951 — the first IIT in India.
49. The first National Park in India is:
a) Gir National Park
b) Jim Corbett National Park
c) Kaziranga National Park
d) Ranthambore National Park
Answer: b) Jim Corbett National Park
Explanation: Established in 1936 (Uttarakhand) as Hailey National Park; renamed later.
50. India’s first space satellite launch vehicle (SLV) was developed under:
a) Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
b) Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
c) Dr. Satish Dhawan
d) Dr. Homi Bhabha
Answer: b) Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Explanation: SLV-3 launched Rohini satellite in 1980 — India’s first satellite launch vehicle.
51. Who was the first person to reach the moon?
a) Yuri Gagarin
b) Neil Armstrong
c) Buzz Aldrin
d) Michael Collins
Answer: b) Neil Armstrong
Explanation: On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon during NASA’s Apollo 11 mission.
52. Who was the first person to travel into space?
a) John Glenn
b) Valentina Tereshkova
c) Yuri Gagarin
d) Alan Shepard
Answer: c) Yuri Gagarin
Explanation: On 12 April 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth aboard Vostok 1.
53. Who was the first woman to travel into space?
a) Sally Ride
b) Valentina Tereshkova
c) Svetlana Savitskaya
d) Kalpana Chawla
Answer: b) Valentina Tereshkova
Explanation: She became the first woman in space on 16 June 1963 (Vostok 6).
54. Who was the first person to orbit the Earth?
a) John Glenn
b) Yuri Gagarin
c) Alan Shepard
d) Neil Armstrong
Answer: b) Yuri Gagarin
Explanation: He completed one full orbit around Earth in 108 minutes.
55. Who was the first man to climb Mount Everest?
a) Tenzing Norgay
b) Edmund Hillary
c) Both a and b
d) Reinhold Messner
Answer: c) Both a and b
Explanation: Sir Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) scaled Everest on 29 May 1953.
56. Who was the first person to sail around the world?
a) Ferdinand Magellan
b) Vasco da Gama
c) Christopher Columbus
d) James Cook
Answer: a) Ferdinand Magellan (crew)
Explanation: Although Magellan died en route, his expedition (1519–1522) completed the first circumnavigation under Juan Sebastián Elcano.
57. Who was the first person to discover the sea route to India?
a) Christopher Columbus
b) Ferdinand Magellan
c) Vasco da Gama
d) Marco Polo
Answer: c) Vasco da Gama
Explanation: He reached Calicut (Kozhikode) in 1498 via the Cape of Good Hope.
58. Who was the first European to reach America?
a) Marco Polo
b) Christopher Columbus
c) Ferdinand Magellan
d) Amerigo Vespucci
Answer: b) Christopher Columbus
Explanation: He landed in the Bahamas in 1492 while searching for a route to India.
59. Who was the first person to discover gravity?
a) Albert Einstein
b) Isaac Newton
c) Galileo Galilei
d) Kepler
Answer: b) Isaac Newton
Explanation: He formulated the law of universal gravitation in 1687.
60. Who invented the telephone?
a) Alexander Graham Bell
b) Thomas Edison
c) James Watson
d) Marconi
Answer: a) Alexander Graham Bell
Explanation: He patented the telephone in 1876.
61. Who invented the light bulb?
a) Thomas Edison
b) Alexander Bell
c) Michael Faraday
d) Nikola Tesla
Answer: a) Thomas Edison
Explanation: He invented and patented the practical incandescent light bulb in 1879.
62. Who invented the airplane?
a) Wright Brothers
b) Thomas Edison
c) Henry Ford
d) Charles Lindbergh
Answer: a) Wright Brothers
Explanation: Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful flight on 17 Dec 1903.
63. Who discovered penicillin?
a) Robert Koch
b) Alexander Fleming
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Joseph Lister
Answer: b) Alexander Fleming
Explanation: In 1928, Fleming discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin.
64. Who discovered America?
a) Vasco da Gama
b) Ferdinand Magellan
c) Christopher Columbus
d) Marco Polo
Answer: c) Christopher Columbus
Explanation: He reached the New World in 1492 while sailing for Spain.
65. Who was the first President of the United States?
a) George Washington
b) Abraham Lincoln
c) Thomas Jefferson
d) John Adams
Answer: a) George Washington
Explanation: He became the first U.S. President in 1789.
66. Who was the first woman Prime Minister in the world?
a) Indira Gandhi
b) Sirimavo Bandaranaike
c) Golda Meir
d) Margaret Thatcher
Answer: b) Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Explanation: She became PM of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in 1960 — the world’s first woman PM.
67. Who was the first woman President in the world?
a) Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
b) Corazon Aquino
c) Isabel Perón
d) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Answer: c) Isabel Perón
Explanation: She became President of Argentina in 1974 — the world’s first female Head of State.
68. Who was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize?
a) Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
b) Marie Curie
c) Albert Einstein
d) Henry Becquerel
Answer: a) Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Explanation: He received the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for discovering X-rays.
69. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
a) Marie Curie
b) Mother Teresa
c) Dorothy Hodgkin
d) Barbara McClintock
Answer: a) Marie Curie
Explanation: She won Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) and later in Chemistry (1911).
70. Which was the first country to print books?
a) India
b) China
c) Germany
d) Egypt
Answer: b) China
Explanation: China pioneered woodblock printing during the Tang Dynasty (7th century).
71. Which was the first country to grant women the right to vote?
a) USA
b) New Zealand
c) Australia
d) Finland
Answer: b) New Zealand
Explanation: New Zealand granted women suffrage in 1893.
72. Which was the first country to issue paper currency?
a) China
b) Japan
c) India
d) England
Answer: a) China
Explanation: Paper money originated in China during the Tang and Song dynasties.
73. Which was the first country to launch a satellite?
a) USA
b) USSR (Russia)
c) China
d) Japan
Answer: b) USSR (Russia)
Explanation: USSR launched Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957 — the world’s first artificial satellite.
74. Which was the first country to use nuclear power for electricity?
a) USA
b) USSR
c) Canada
d) France
Answer: b) USSR
Explanation: The world’s first nuclear power station began operation at Obninsk (Russia) in 1954.
75. Who was the first man to go into space twice?
a) Yuri Gagarin
b) Gus Grissom
c) Gherman Titov
d) Vladimir Komarov
Answer: b) Gus Grissom
Explanation: NASA astronaut Virgil “Ivan” Gus Grissom was the second American in space and the first to go twice (Mercury and Gemini missions).
76. Who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes?
a) Linus Pauling
b) Marie Curie
c) Frederick Sanger
d) Albert Einstein
Answer: b) Marie Curie
Explanation: She won Nobel in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911), becoming the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.
77. Who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in different sciences?
a) Linus Pauling
b) Marie Curie
c) John Bardeen
d) Frederick Sanger
Answer: b) Marie Curie
Explanation: She received Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry for her work on radioactivity.
78. Who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in the same field?
a) John Bardeen
b) Linus Pauling
c) Frederick Sanger
d) Albert Einstein
Answer: a) John Bardeen
Explanation: He won Nobel Prizes in Physics (1956, 1972) for transistor and superconductivity theories.
79. Who was the first person to receive Bharat Ratna and Nishan-e-Pakistan?
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Morarji Desai
c) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: b) Morarji Desai
Explanation: India’s former PM Morarji Desai received both India’s and Pakistan’s highest civilian awards.
80. Who was the first person to receive the Oscar (Academy Award)?
a) Emil Jannings
b) Charlie Chaplin
c) Douglas Fairbanks
d) Walt Disney
Answer: a) Emil Jannings
Explanation: He won the first Oscar for Best Actor in 1929.
81. Who was the first woman to win an Oscar (Academy Award)?
a) Janet Gaynor
b) Audrey Hepburn
c) Katharine Hepburn
d) Vivien Leigh
Answer: a) Janet Gaynor
Explanation: She won the first Best Actress Oscar in 1929.
82. Who was the first person to reach the North Pole?
a) Robert Peary
b) Roald Amundsen
c) Ernest Shackleton
d) Edmund Hillary
Answer: a) Robert Peary
Explanation: He reached the North Pole on 6 April 1909.
83. Who was the first person to reach the South Pole?
a) Robert Scott
b) Roald Amundsen
c) Edmund Hillary
d) Ernest Shackleton
Answer: b) Roald Amundsen
Explanation: He reached the South Pole on 14 December 1911.
84. Who was the first person to swim the English Channel?
a) Matthew Webb
b) Gertrude Ederle
c) Michael Phelps
d) Mark Spitz
Answer: a) Matthew Webb
Explanation: He swam the English Channel in 1875.
85. Who was the first woman to swim across the English Channel?
a) Gertrude Ederle
b) Florence Chadwick
c) Arati Saha
d) Sarah Thomas
Answer: a) Gertrude Ederle
Explanation: In 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
86. Who was the first Indian woman to swim across the English Channel?
a) Mihir Sen
b) Arati Saha
c) Bula Choudhury
d) Bhakti Sharma
Answer: b) Arati Saha
Explanation: She swam across the Channel in 1959 and received Padma Shri.
87. Who was the first person to conquer Mount Everest without oxygen?
a) Reinhold Messner
b) Edmund Hillary
c) Tenzing Norgay
d) George Mallory
Answer: a) Reinhold Messner
Explanation: In 1978, he climbed Everest without supplemental oxygen — a world first.
88. Who was the first person to fly an airplane solo nonstop across the Atlantic?
a) Amelia Earhart
b) Charles Lindbergh
c) Wilbur Wright
d) Alan Shepard
Answer: b) Charles Lindbergh
Explanation: He completed the flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
89. Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
a) Amelia Earhart
b) Sally Ride
c) Valentina Tereshkova
d) Kalpana Chawla
Answer: a) Amelia Earhart
Explanation: In 1932, she became the first woman to achieve the solo transatlantic flight.
90. Who was the first man to fly in space?
a) Yuri Gagarin
b) Alan Shepard
c) Neil Armstrong
d) Buzz Aldrin
Answer: a) Yuri Gagarin
Explanation: He orbited Earth aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961.
91. Which was the first country to launch a man-made satellite?
a) USA
b) USSR (Soviet Union)
c) China
d) Japan
Answer: b) USSR (Soviet Union)
Explanation: Sputnik 1 was launched on 4 October 1957.
92. Which is the first country to land a human on the Moon?
a) USSR
b) USA
c) China
d) France
Answer: b) USA
Explanation: NASA’s Apollo 11 mission in 1969 made the first manned lunar landing.
93. Which was the first country to launch a satellite to Mars successfully?
a) USA
b) USSR
c) India
d) Japan
Answer: a) USA
Explanation: NASA’s Mariner 4 was the first spacecraft to reach Mars in 1965.
94. Who was the first person to reach outer space twice?
a) Gus Grissom
b) Yuri Gagarin
c) John Glenn
d) Alan Shepard
Answer: a) Gus Grissom
Explanation: He was the first human to travel twice in space (Mercury and Gemini missions).
95. What was the first country to host the modern Olympic Games?
a) France
b) Greece
c) USA
d) Italy
Answer: b) Greece
Explanation: The first modern Olympics were held in Athens in 1896.
96. Who was the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal?
a) Charlotte Cooper
b) Nadia Comăneci
c) Florence Griffith Joyner
d) Larisa Latynina
Answer: a) Charlotte Cooper
Explanation: She won gold in tennis (1900 Paris Olympics).
97. Which is the first country to have a written constitution?
a) USA
b) France
c) UK
d) India
Answer: a) USA
Explanation: The U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1789, was the first written constitution.
98. Which is the first country to legalize same-sex marriage?
a) USA
b) Netherlands
c) Canada
d) Spain
Answer: b) Netherlands
Explanation: The Netherlands legalized same-sex marriage in 2001 — the first in the world.
99. Who was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN)?
a) Trygve Lie
b) Dag Hammarskjöld
c) U Thant
d) Kofi Annan
Answer: a) Trygve Lie
Explanation: He was the first UN Secretary-General from Norway (1946–1952).
100. Which was the first country to join the United Nations?
a) USA
b) Poland
c) India
d) France
Answer: b) Poland
Explanation: Poland was the first country to sign the UN Charter in 1945 alphabetically.