Famous Firsts: Who Did It First in History? Holidays are celebrated with unique customs across the globe. This quiz invites you to test your knowledge about traditional foods, rituals, and festive symbols tied to beloved celebrations. Discover surprising facts about how people honor these special moments and see if you’re a holiday expert! Click the Start button to take the quiz. 1. Who was the first person to walk on the moon? Buzz Aldrin Neil Armstrong Yuri Gagarin John Glenn None 2. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? Mother Teresa Florence Nightingale Jane Goodall Marie Curie None 3. Which country was the first to grant women the right to vote? United States New Zealand Australia Canada None 4. Who was the first President of the United States? John Adams Thomas Jefferson George Washington Abraham Lincoln None 5. Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe? Ferdinand Magellan Marco Polo Vasco da Gama Christopher Columbus None 6. Who was the first man to climb Mount Everest? Edmund Hillary Tenzing Norgay Reinhold Messner George Mallory None 7. Which was the first country to host the modern Olympic Games? France United Kingdom Greece Italy None 8. Who was the first person to discover penicillin? Albert Einstein Jonas Salk Louis Pasteur Alexander Fleming None 9. Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom? Margaret Thatcher Theresa May Angela Merkel Indira Gandhi None 10. Who was the first person in space? Buzz Aldrin Neil Armstrong Yuri Gagarin Alan Shepard None 11. Which city was the first to host the World’s Fair? Paris London New York Vienna None 12. Who was the first African American President of the United States? Martin Luther King Jr. Jesse Jackson Barack Obama Colin Powell None 13. Which animal was the first to be successfully cloned? Sheep Dog Cow Cat None 14. Who was the first person to invent the printing press? Johannes Gutenberg Leonardo da Vinci Isaac Newton Galileo Galilei None 15. Who was the first explorer to reach the South Pole? Ernest Shackleton Robert Falcon Scott Roald Amundsen James Cook None 16. Who was the first woman in space? Valentina Tereshkova Sally Ride Mae Jemison Svetlana Savitskaya None 17. What was the first artificial satellite launched into space? Apollo 11 Sputnik 1 Explorer 1 Hubble None 18. Who was the first person to reach the North Pole? Roald Amundsen Robert Peary Ernest Shackleton Richard Byrd None 19. What was the first country to use paper money? China Egypt Greece India None 20. Who was the first person to swim across the English Channel? Michael Phelps Gertrude Ederle Mark Spitz Matthew Webb None 1 out of 20 Time's up
