• First Secretary-General of United Nations Trygve Lie (Norway).
• The first President of the United States of America George Washington.
• The first President of the Republic of China Dr Sun Yat Sen (1912).
• First Prime Minister of Great Britain Robert Walpole (1715).
• Pakistan’s first Governor-General Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
• The first American President to visit Pakistan was Dwight David Eisenhower.
• The first European invader of Indian soil was Alexander The Great.
• The first man to go into space was Major Yuri Gagarin (USSR).
• The first man to walk in space was Alexey Leonov (Russia).
• First space tourist Dennis Tito (USA).
• The first man to set foot on the Moon was Neil Armstrong (USA).
• The first man to fly an airplane Wright Brothers.
• The first man to reach the North Pole was Robert Peary.
• The First man to reach the South Pole was Roald Amundsen.
• The first man to climb Mount Everest was Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary (29th May 1953).
• The first man to climb Mount Everest twice Nawang Gombu (1965).
• First blind man to scale Mount Everest Erik Weihenmayer (25^th May 2001).
• The first person to sail around the world was Ferdinand Magellan.
• First deaf and dumb to cross the Strait of Gibraltar Taranath Shenoy (India).
• First European to visit China Marco Polo.
• First man to draw the map of Earth Anaximander.
• The First man to compile the encyclopedia Aspheosis (Athens).
• First man to win Nobel Prize for Literature Sully Prudhomme (France).
• The First men to win the Nobel Prize for Peace were Henry Dunant (Switzerland) and Frederic Passy (France).

Note: For more GK questions click here.

• First man to win Nobel Prize for Physics WK Roentgen (Germany).
• The first man to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was Jacobus H Van’t Hoft (Holland).
• First man to win Nobel Prize for Medicine AE Von Behring (Germany).
• The First men to win the Nobel Prize for Economics were Ragnar Frisch (Norway) and Jan Tinbergen (Holland).
• The first country to print books was China.
• The first country to issue paper currency was China.
• The first country to commence a competitive examination in civil services was China.
• The first country to make the Constitution United States of America.
• The first country to appoint Lokpal was Sweden.
• The First country to ban capital punishment was Venezuela.
• The first country to give voting rights to women was New Zealand.
• The First country to impose a carbon tax is New Zealand.
• The First countries to start VAT (Value Added Tax) are Brazil, Germany, and Denmark.
• The first country to issue plastic currency was Australia.
• The First country to give constitutional status to animal rights was Switzerland.
• The first country to implement family planning was India.
• The first country to make education compulsory was Prussia Germany.
• The first country to send humans to the Moon United States of America.
• First cloned human baby Eve.