GK QUIZ First in the World 1.Chairman of Peoples Republic of China - Mao-Tse-Tung 2.President of the Chinese Republic - Dr. Sun Yat Sen 3.President of U.S.A - George Washington 4.Chinese Traveller to India - Fahein 5.Foreign Invader to India - Alexander the Great 6.Person to reach South Pole - Amundsen 7.Person to reach North Pole - Robert Pearey 8.Person in Space - Yuri Gagarin 9.Person on Moon - Neil Armstrong 10.Lady to climb Mount Everest - Junko Taibei 11.European to visit China - Marco Polo 12.Place where atom bomb was dropped - Hiroshima 13.Man to walk in Space - Alexei Leonov 14.Woman cosmonaut in Space - Valentina Tereshkova 15.Woman Prime Minister of a country - Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnaike 16.Woman President of a country - Maria Estela Peron 17.Woman to Command a Space Mission - Colonel Eileen Collins (U.S.A.) 18.The first residents of International Space station - Bill Shepherd(USA),Yuri Gidzankoand Sergei Krikalev (Russia) 19.The first blind man to scale Mt. Everest - Erik Weihenmayer (USA, May 25, 2001) 20.The first Muslim woman to become the Secretary General of Amnesty Internationallrine - Zubeida Khan 21.The first space astronaut to gointo space seven times - till dateJerry Ross(U.S.A.) 22.The first South African to become the second space tourist - Mark Shuttleworth 23.The first woman Prime Minister of South Korea - Ms. Chang Sang 24.The first youngest grandmaster of the world in chess - Sergey Karjakin(Ukraine) 25.The first adventurer flying successfully across the English Channel without aircraft - Felix Baumgartner(July 2003) 26.Chinas first man in space - Yang Liwei 27.The first Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize - Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003) 28.The woman with the highest individual Test score making anew world record - Kiran Baloch (Pakistani cricketer,scoring 242 runs playing womenscricket test against West Indies in Karachi in March, 2004) 29.The first woman of the world to climb Mt. Everest four times - Lakpa Sherpa (Nepali) 30.The first woman to cross sevenimportant seas of the world by swimming - Bula Chaudhury(India) 31.The first aircraft pilot to roundthe entire world non-stop by his 2 engine aircraft in 67 hours - Steve Fossett (March 2005) 32.The first woman to be appointed as a Governor of a province in Afghanistan Habiba Sorabhi 33.The first woman of the world to swim across five continents - Bula Chaudhury (India) (April 2005) 34.The first woman athlete to touch 5.0 meter mark in pole vault - Ms. Yelena Isinbayeva (Russian, July 2005) 35.The first Hindu Chief Justice of Pakistani Supreme Court - Justice Rana Bhagwan Das Took over on Sept. 2, 2005 as Acting Chief Justice 36.The first duly elected woman President of an African country - Allen Johnson Sirleaf (elected President of Liberia in Nov. 2005) 37.The first woman Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan - Shanshad Akhtar (Appointed in Dec. 2005) 38.The first woman Chancellor of Germany - Angela Merkel (Took over in Nov. 2005) 39.The first woman President of Chile - Dr. Michelle Bachelet 40.The first woman Prime Minister of Jamaica - Portia Simpson Miller (Feb. 2006) 41.The first woman foreign Secretary of England - Margaret Backett (May 2006) 42.The first double amputee to scale - Mt. EverestMark Inglis (May 15, 2006
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