100 First in the World Quiz – MCQ Format

Here’s a 100 “First in the World” Quiz based on the list you provided. Each question has 4 options, with the correct answer marked and brief explanation included below.


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🌍 100 First in the World Quiz – MCQ Format

🧪 Science & Invention

1. Who first proposed the theory of gravity?
A) Albert Einstein
✅ B) Isaac Newton
C) Galileo Galilei
D) Johannes Kepler
Explanation: Newton proposed the universal law of gravitation.


2. Who developed the first vaccine?
A) Louis Pasteur
✅ B) Edward Jenner
C) Robert Koch
D) Alexander Fleming
Explanation: Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine in 1796.


3. What was the first cloned animal?
A) Bunny
✅ B) Dolly the sheep
C) Rex the dog
D) Monkey Momo
Explanation: Dolly was cloned in 1996.


4. Who performed the first heart transplant?
✅ A) Dr. Christiaan Barnard
B) Dr. William DeVries
C) Dr. Devi Shetty
D) Dr. Denton Cooley
Explanation: In South Africa, 1967.


5. Who was the first test tube baby?
A) Angela Roberts
✅ B) Louise Brown
C) Sarah Wilson
D) Marie Claire
Explanation: Born in 1978 in the UK.


6. Who won the first Nobel Prize in Physics?
✅ A) Wilhelm Röntgen
B) Albert Einstein
C) Niels Bohr
D) Enrico Fermi
Explanation: For discovering X-rays in 1901.


7. Who discovered blood circulation?
✅ A) William Harvey
B) Edward Jenner
C) Galen
D) Hippocrates
Explanation: He described systemic circulation in 1628.


8. Who first used the telescope for astronomy?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Johannes Kepler
✅ C) Galileo Galilei
D) Nicolaus Copernicus
Explanation: Galileo observed celestial objects in 1609.


9. What was the first artificial satellite?
✅ A) Sputnik 1
B) Explorer 1
C) Aryabhata
D) Vostok 1
Explanation: Launched by USSR in 1957.


10. First human-made object to reach the moon?
✅ A) Luna 2
B) Apollo 11
C) Sputnik 2
D) Chang’e 1
Explanation: USSR’s Luna 2 crash-landed in 1959.

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🌌 Space & Exploration (Q11–20)

11. Who was the first person in space?
✅ A) Yuri Gagarin
B) Neil Armstrong
C) Alan Shepard
D) Buzz Aldrin
Explanation: Gagarin orbited Earth in 1961 aboard Vostok 1.


12. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
✅ A) Neil Armstrong
B) Michael Collins
C) Buzz Aldrin
D) John Glenn
Explanation: Armstrong stepped on the moon in 1969.


13. Who was the first woman in space?
A) Sally Ride
✅ B) Valentina Tereshkova
C) Kalpana Chawla
D) Peggy Whitson
Explanation: She flew on Vostok 6 in 1963.


14. Who was the first space tourist?
✅ A) Dennis Tito
B) Elon Musk
C) Richard Branson
D) Alan Bean
Explanation: Tito paid to visit the ISS in 2001.


15. First reusable spacecraft?
A) Apollo 11
B) Vostok 1
✅ C) Space Shuttle Columbia
D) Soyuz
Explanation: First flight in 1981.


16. First rover on Mars?
✅ A) Sojourner
B) Opportunity
C) Curiosity
D) Spirit
Explanation: Landed in 1997 by NASA.


17. First private space company to reach orbit?
✅ A) SpaceX
B) Blue Origin
C) Virgin Galactic
D) Boeing
Explanation: Falcon 1 reached orbit in 2008.


18. First all-civilian spaceflight?
A) Blue Origin Flight
✅ B) SpaceX Inspiration4
C) Virgin Unity
D) Soyuz 10
Explanation: Launched in 2021.


19. Who was the first Indian in space?
✅ A) Rakesh Sharma
B) Kalpana Chawla
C) Sunita Williams
D) Vikram Sarabhai
Explanation: Flew aboard Soyuz T-11 in 1984.


20. First mission to land on Moon’s south pole?
A) Luna 25
B) Apollo 17
✅ C) Chandrayaan-3
D) Artemis I
Explanation: India’s ISRO achieved this in 2023.




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🌐 World & Politics (Q21–30)

21. Who was the first President of the USA?
✅ A) George Washington
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) John Adams
D) Abraham Lincoln
Explanation: Served from 1789 to 1797.


22. First female Prime Minister in the world?
✅ A) Sirimavo Bandaranaike
B) Margaret Thatcher
C) Indira Gandhi
D) Golda Meir
Explanation: Became PM of Sri Lanka in 1960.


23. First woman President in the world?
✅ A) Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
B) Pratibha Patil
C) Dilma Rousseff
D) Angela Merkel
Explanation: Iceland, 1980.


24. First elected female African head of state?
A) Joyce Banda
✅ B) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
C) Sahle-Work Zewde
D) Winnie Mandela
Explanation: President of Liberia, 2006.


25. First UN Secretary-General?
✅ A) Trygve Lie
B) Dag Hammarskjöld
C) Kofi Annan
D) António Guterres
Explanation: From Norway, served 1946–1952.


26. First country to grant women voting rights?
A) UK
✅ B) New Zealand
C) USA
D) Finland
Explanation: In 1893.


27. First country to abolish monarchy?
A) USA
✅ B) France
C) Russia
D) China
Explanation: French Revolution in 1792.


28. First woman US Vice President?
✅ A) Kamala Harris
B) Hillary Clinton
C) Nancy Pelosi
D) Sarah Palin
Explanation: Elected in 2020.


29. First Black President of South Africa?
✅ A) Nelson Mandela
B) Thabo Mbeki
C) Jacob Zuma
D) Desmond Tutu
Explanation: Elected in 1994 post-apartheid.


30. When was the First World War?
A) 1900–1905
✅ B) 1914–1918
C) 1912–1916
D) 1920–1925
Explanation: Started after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.




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📚 Education & Literature (Q31–40)

31. First book ever printed?
✅ A) Gutenberg Bible
B) Divine Comedy
C) Iliad
D) Torah
Explanation: Printed using movable type in 1455.


32. First novel in the world?
A) Don Quixote
✅ B) The Tale of Genji
C) Les Misérables
D) Ramayana
Explanation: Written by Murasaki Shikibu in 11th-century Japan.


33. First woman Nobel Laureate in Literature?
✅ A) Selma Lagerlöf
B) Toni Morrison
C) Wislawa Szymborska
D) Nadine Gordimer
Explanation: Awarded in 1909.


34. First printed newspaper?
✅ A) Relation aller Fürnemmen
B) The Times
C) Gazette de France
D) The Spectator
Explanation: Printed in Germany in 1605.


35. First public university in the world?
✅ A) University of Bologna
B) Oxford
C) Harvard
D) Nalanda
Explanation: Founded in 1088 in Italy.


36. First library in the world?
A) Library of Alexandria
✅ B) Library of Ashurbanipal
C) Vatican Library
D) Pergamum Library
Explanation: Established in 7th century BCE in Assyria.


37. Who wrote the first dictionary?
✅ A) Samuel Johnson
B) Noah Webster
C) Oxford Committee
D) William Caxton
Explanation: Published in 1755.


38. First Nobel Prize in Literature?
✅ A) Sully Prudhomme
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Rudyard Kipling
D) Rabindranath Tagore
Explanation: In 1901, France.


39. First woman to publish a book in her name?
✅ A) Christine de Pizan
B) Jane Austen
C) Emily Dickinson
D) Mary Shelley
Explanation: French writer of the 14th century.


40. First printed book in India?
✅ A) Doctrina Christam
B) Ramcharitmanas
C) Mahabharata
D) Rigveda
Explanation: Printed in 1557 in Goa.




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🎖️ Awards & Records (Q41–50)

41. Who was the first Nobel Prize winner in Physics?
✅ A) Wilhelm Röntgen
B) Albert Einstein
C) Max Planck
D) Ernest Rutherford
Explanation: He received it in 1901 for discovering X-rays.


42. Who was the first Asian Nobel laureate?
✅ A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) C.V. Raman
C) Amartya Sen
D) Malala Yousafzai
Explanation: He won the Literature Prize in 1913.


43. First woman to win a Nobel Prize?
✅ A) Marie Curie
B) Rosalind Franklin
C) Mother Teresa
D) Jane Addams
Explanation: Won in 1903 for Physics.


44. Who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes?
✅ A) Marie Curie
B) Linus Pauling
C) Albert Einstein
D) Ernest Rutherford
Explanation: Won in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911).


45. Who was the first Indian Nobel Laureate?
✅ A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) C.V. Raman
C) Amartya Sen
D) Kailash Satyarthi
Explanation: Won in 1913 for Literature.


46. Who won the first Nobel Peace Prize?
✅ A) Jean Henri Dunant & Frédéric Passy
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Nelson Mandela
Explanation: Awarded jointly in 1901.


47. Who won the first Olympic gold medal (modern games)?
✅ A) James Connolly
B) Pierre de Coubertin
C) Alfred Flatow
D) Carl Schuhmann
Explanation: For triple jump in 1896.


48. Who were the first recipients of the Bharat Ratna?
✅ A) C. Rajagopalachari, Dr. Radhakrishnan & C.V. Raman
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) Lal Bahadur Shastri
Explanation: India’s highest civilian award began in 1954.


49. First Grammy Award for Album of the Year went to?
✅ A) The Music from Peter Gunn – Henry Mancini
B) Elvis Presley – Elvis
C) Frank Sinatra – Come Dance With Me
D) The Beatles – Abbey Road
Explanation: Won in 1959.


50. First woman to win an Oscar (Best Actress)?
✅ A) Janet Gaynor
B) Bette Davis
C) Katharine Hepburn
D) Vivien Leigh
Explanation: Won for three films in 1929.




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🏅 Sports & Games (Q51–60)

51. Where were the first modern Olympic Games held?
✅ A) Athens
B) Paris
C) Rome
D) London
Explanation: In 1896.


52. First country to host the FIFA World Cup?
✅ A) Uruguay
B) Brazil
C) Italy
D) France
Explanation: In 1930.


53. First Cricket World Cup winner?
✅ A) West Indies
B) India
C) Australia
D) England
Explanation: In 1975.


54. First woman Olympic gold medalist?
✅ A) Hélène de Pourtalès
B) Charlotte Cooper
C) Nadia Comaneci
D) Simone Biles
Explanation: Won in sailing, 1900.


55. First Indian to win an individual Olympic gold?
✅ A) Abhinav Bindra
B) Neeraj Chopra
C) Leander Paes
D) Karnam Malleswari
Explanation: Won in shooting in 2008.


56. First woman Grandmaster in chess?
✅ A) Nona Gaprindashvili
B) Judit Polgar
C) Maia Chiburdanidze
D) Hou Yifan
Explanation: Became Grandmaster in 1978.


57. First Chess World Champion?
✅ A) Wilhelm Steinitz
B) Paul Morphy
C) Emanuel Lasker
D) Bobby Fischer
Explanation: Reigned from 1886.


58. First man to run a mile in under 4 minutes?
✅ A) Roger Bannister
B) Hicham El Guerrouj
C) Steve Prefontaine
D) Usain Bolt
Explanation: Achieved it in 1954.


59. First Formula 1 World Champion?
✅ A) Giuseppe Farina
B) Juan Manuel Fangio
C) Ayrton Senna
D) Michael Schumacher
Explanation: Won in 1950.


60. First woman to win Wimbledon?
✅ A) Maud Watson
B) Lottie Dod
C) Suzanne Lenglen
D) Billie Jean King
Explanation: Won in 1884.




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🏙️ Cities & Architecture (Q61–70)

61. First planned city in the world?
✅ A) Mohenjo-Daro
B) Rome
C) Babylon
D) Athens
Explanation: From Indus Valley Civilization, c. 2600 BCE.


62. First skyscraper?
✅ A) Home Insurance Building
B) Empire State Building
C) Chrysler Building
D) Willis Tower
Explanation: Built in Chicago, 1885.


63. First metro rail system?
✅ A) London Underground
B) Paris Metro
C) New York Subway
D) Berlin U-Bahn
Explanation: Began in 1863.


64. First city with electricity?
✅ A) Wabash, Indiana
B) Boston
C) New York
D) Chicago
Explanation: Electrified in 1880.


65. First modern Olympic city?
✅ A) Athens
B) Paris
C) Rome
D) Stockholm
Explanation: Hosted in 1896.


66. First nuclear power plant country?
✅ A) USSR
B) USA
C) France
D) UK
Explanation: Opened in Obninsk, 1954.


67. First underwater railway tunnel?
✅ A) Thames Tunnel
B) Seikan Tunnel
C) Channel Tunnel
D) Hudson Tunnel
Explanation: Opened in 1843 in London.


68. First satellite city in the world?
✅ A) Navi Mumbai
B) Shenzhen
C) Islamabad
D) Milton Keynes
Explanation: Built to support Mumbai’s expansion.


69. First capital built after independence?
✅ A) Brasília
B) Islamabad
C) Canberra
D) Abuja
Explanation: Inaugurated in 1960.


70. First 100% solar-powered city (ongoing)?
✅ A) Masdar City
B) Bhadla
C) Auroville
D) Palenque
Explanation: UAE’s Masdar is a model green city.




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💡 Technology & Innovation (Q71–80)

71. First mobile phone call made by?
✅ A) Martin Cooper
B) Steve Jobs
C) Bill Gates
D) Elon Musk
Explanation: From Motorola, in 1973.


72. First electronic computer?
✅ A) ENIAC
B) UNIVAC
C) EDVAC
D) ABC
Explanation: Operational in 1945.


73. Who sent the first email?
✅ A) Ray Tomlinson
B) Tim Berners-Lee
C) Bill Gates
D) Steve Wozniak
Explanation: In 1971.


74. First website address?
✅ A) info.cern.ch
B) http://www.google.com
C) http://www.yahoo.com
D) http://www.wikipedia.org
Explanation: Built by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991.


75. First social media platform?
✅ A) Six Degrees
B) Friendster
C) Orkut
D) MySpace
Explanation: Launched in 1997.


76. First smartphone model?
✅ A) IBM Simon
B) Nokia 3310
C) Motorola StarTAC
D) iPhone
Explanation: Launched in 1994.


77. First search engine?
✅ A) Archie
B) Google
C) AltaVista
D) Lycos
Explanation: Created in 1990.


78. First internet browser?
✅ A) WorldWideWeb (Nexus)
B) Internet Explorer
C) Netscape
D) Mosaic
Explanation: Developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.


79. First cryptocurrency?
✅ A) Bitcoin
B) Ethereum
C) Litecoin
D) Dogecoin
Explanation: Introduced in 2009.


80. First AI chatbot?
✅ A) ELIZA
B) Siri
C) ChatGPT
D) Alexa
Explanation: Created in 1966 at MIT.




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🚢 Travel & Transportation (Q81–90)

81. First powered flight?
✅ A) Wright Brothers
B) Otto Lilienthal
C) Glenn Curtiss
D) Clément Ader
Explanation: 1903 at Kitty Hawk.


82. Inventor of the first car?
✅ A) Karl Benz
B) Henry Ford
C) Rudolf Diesel
D) Gottlieb Daimler
Explanation: Built in 1885.


83. First steam engine train?
✅ A) George Stephenson’s “Locomotion”
B) Rocket
C) Puffing Billy
D) Iron Horse
Explanation: Ran in 1825 in the UK.


84. First supersonic flight?
✅ A) Chuck Yeager
B) Neil Armstrong
C) Yuri Gagarin
D) Amelia Earhart
Explanation: In 1947.


85. First bullet train country?
✅ A) Japan
B) Germany
C) France
D) China
Explanation: Shinkansen began in 1964.


86. First commercial airline flight?
✅ A) St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line
B) Air France
C) KLM
D) Lufthansa
Explanation: In 1914.


87. First driverless metro?
✅ A) Lille Metro
B) Singapore MRT
C) Dubai Metro
D) Tokyo Metro
Explanation: Started in 1983.


88. First electric vehicle invented by?
✅ A) Ányos Jedlik
B) Nikola Tesla
C) Karl Benz
D) Thomas Edison
Explanation: Prototype in 1828.


89. First solo world flight?
✅ A) Wiley Post
B) Charles Lindbergh
C) Amelia Earhart
D) Howard Hughes
Explanation: Completed in 1933.


90. First cruise ship?
✅ A) Prinzessin Victoria Luise
B) Titanic
C) Lusitania
D) Queen Mary
Explanation: Launched in 1900.




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🏛️ Culture, Religion & Records (Q91–100)

91. First printed Bible?
✅ A) Gutenberg Bible
B) King James Bible
C) Vulgate
D) Tyndale Bible
Explanation: Printed in 1455.


92. First known civilization?
✅ A) Sumerians
B) Egyptians
C) Harappans
D) Chinese
Explanation: Mesopotamia around 4000 BCE.


93. World’s oldest temple?
✅ A) Göbekli Tepe
B) Stonehenge
C) Temple of Karnak
D) Parthenon
Explanation: Built ~10,000 BCE in Turkey.


94. First organized religion?
✅ A) Sumerian
B) Egyptian
C) Hinduism
D) Zoroastrianism
Explanation: In Mesopotamia.


95. First ancient Olympic Games?
✅ A) 776 BCE
B) 500 BCE
C) 900 BCE
D) 300 BCE
Explanation: Held in Greece.


96. First movie ever made?
✅ A) Roundhay Garden Scene
B) Arrival of a Train
C) A Trip to the Moon
D) The Great Train Robbery
Explanation: Shot in 1888.


97. First feature-length film?
✅ A) The Story of the Kelly Gang
B) Birth of a Nation
C) The Jazz Singer
D) Nosferatu
Explanation: Released in 1906 in Australia.


98. First woman to travel the world?
✅ A) Jeanne Baré
B) Nellie Bly
C) Amelia Earhart
D) Gertrude Bell
Explanation: Disguised as a man in the 1760s.


99. First postage stamp?
✅ A) Penny Black
B) Blue Penny
C) One Anna
D) Liberty Stamp
Explanation: Issued in UK, 1840.


100. First civilization to use writing?
✅ A) Sumerians
B) Egyptians
C) Greeks
D) Chinese
Explanation: Invented cuneiform script.