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- The first Secretary-General of NATO was:
A) Hastings Ismay
B) Boutros Boutros-Ghali
C) Javier Solana
D) Kofi Annan
Answer: A - The Treaty of Tordesillas was signed between:
A) England and France
B) Spain and Portugal
C) Germany and Italy
D) Russia and Turkey
Answer: B - The founder of the Ming Dynasty was:
A) Kublai Khan
B) Zhu Yuanzhang
C) Sun Yat-sen
D) Qin Shi Huang
Answer: B - The first successful heart transplant was performed by:
A) Louis Pasteur
B) Christiaan Barnard
C) Alexander Fleming
D) Jonas Salk
Answer: B - The headquarters of the Arab League is in:
A) Riyadh
B) Cairo
C) Damascus
D) Baghdad
Answer: B - The first civilization in the Americas was:
A) Aztec
B) Maya
C) Olmec
D) Inca
Answer: C - The Crimean War was fought between Russia and:
A) France and Britain
B) Germany and Italy
C) China and Japan
D) Spain and Portugal
Answer: A - The founder of the Gupta Golden Age was:
A) Samudragupta
B) Chandragupta II
C) Chandragupta I
D) Harsha
Answer: C - The first newspaper was published in:
A) Germany
B) China
C) England
D) France
Answer: B - The headquarters of ASEAN is in:
A) Bangkok
B) Jakarta
C) Kuala Lumpur
D) Manila
Answer: B - The first battle of Islam was:
A) Uhud
B) Khandaq
C) Badr
D) Hunain
Answer: C - The founder of the Spanish Empire in America was:
A) Cortés
B) Pizarro
C) Columbus
D) Ferdinand
Answer: C - The first woman to travel into space was:
A) Sally Ride
B) Kalpana Chawla
C) Valentina Tereshkova
D) Mae Jemison
Answer: C - The capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was:
A) Budapest
B) Prague
C) Vienna
D) Bratislava
Answer: C - The founder of the Mauryan Empire defeated:
A) Seleucus
B) Dhana Nanda
C) Harsha
D) Porus
Answer: B - The first successful vaccine for polio was developed by:
A) Edward Jenner
B) Jonas Salk
C) Fleming
D) Koch
Answer: B - The headquarters of SAARC is in:
A) Islamabad
B) Dhaka
C) Kathmandu
D) Colombo
Answer: C - The Thirty Years’ War ended with the:
A) Treaty of Versailles
B) Treaty of Paris
C) Peace of Westphalia
D) Treaty of Utrecht
Answer: C - The founder of the Sikh Khalsa was:
A) Guru Nanak
B) Guru Arjan
C) Guru Gobind Singh
D) Guru Ram Das
Answer: C - The first Prime Minister of India was:
A) Gandhi
B) Nehru
C) Patel
D) Rajendra Prasad
Answer: B - The headquarters of OIC is in:
A) Jeddah
B) Riyadh
C) Makkah
D) Cairo
Answer: A - The first emperor of the Mughal Empire was:
A) Akbar
B) Babur
C) Humayun
D) Shah Jahan
Answer: B - The Cold War ended with the dissolution of:
A) Yugoslavia
B) Czechoslovakia
C) USSR
D) Warsaw Pact
Answer: C - The founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was:
A) King Faisal
B) King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud
C) King Saud
D) King Khalid
Answer: B - The first country to recognize Pakistan was:
A) Iran
B) Turkey
C) Saudi Arabia
D) China
Answer: A - The headquarters of the African Union is in:
A) Nairobi
B) Addis Ababa
C) Cairo
D) Lagos
Answer: B - The first European university was established in:
A) Paris
B) Oxford
C) Bologna
D) Cambridge
Answer: C - The founder of the Ilkhanate was:
A) Timur
B) Hulagu Khan
C) Genghis Khan
D) Kublai Khan
Answer: B - The first battle of World War II was fought in:
A) France
B) Poland
C) Germany
D) Belgium
Answer: B - The headquarters of the Commonwealth is in:
A) Ottawa
B) Canberra
C) London
D) Wellington
Answer: C - The first Chinese traveler to India was:
A) Faxian
B) Xuanzang
C) Ibn Battuta
D) Marco Polo
Answer: A - The founder of the Delhi Sultanate slave dynasty was:
A) Iltutmish
B) Balban
C) Qutb-ud-din Aibak
D) Razia Sultan
Answer: C - The first battle between Muslims and Crusaders was:
A) Battle of Hattin
B) Battle of Antioch
C) Battle of Jerusalem
D) Battle of Dorylaeum
Answer: D - The headquarters of FIFA is in:
A) Paris
B) Zurich
C) Geneva
D) Vienna
Answer: B - The first modern census was conducted in:
A) Britain
B) China
C) USA
D) France
Answer: A - The founder of the Timurid Empire was:
A) Babur
B) Timur
C) Genghis Khan
D) Nadir Shah
Answer: B - The first successful submarine was built by:
A) Fulton
B) John Holland
C) Edison
D) Marconi
Answer: B - The headquarters of the WTO is in:
A) New York
B) Geneva
C) Paris
D) Brussels
Answer: B - The first battle fought with tanks was during:
A) Battle of Somme
B) Battle of Verdun
C) Battle of Waterloo
D) Battle of Marne
Answer: A - The founder of the Yuan Dynasty was:
A) Genghis Khan
B) Kublai Khan
C) Timur
D) Qin Shi Huang
Answer: B - The first successful photograph was taken by:
A) Daguerre
B) Edison
C) Newton
D) Bell
Answer: A - The headquarters of UNICEF is in:
A) Geneva
B) London
C) New York
D) Paris
Answer: C - The first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan was:
A) Fatima Jinnah
B) Benazir Bhutto
C) Hina Rabbani Khar
D) Maryam Nawaz
Answer: B - The founder of the Mauryan administration system was guided by:
A) Chanakya
B) Kalidasa
C) Ashoka
D) Panini
Answer: A - The first Arab-Israeli war took place in:
A) 1948
B) 1956
C) 1967
D) 1973
Answer: A - The headquarters of INTERPOL is in:
A) Paris
B) Lyon
C) Vienna
D) Geneva
Answer: B - The first successful radio transmission was achieved by:
A) Bell
B) Marconi
C) Tesla
D) Edison
Answer: B - The founder of the Ottoman Janissaries was:
A) Osman I
B) Orhan
C) Murad I
D) Mehmed II
Answer: C - The first successful cloning of an animal was:
A) Dolly the Sheep
B) Lucy the Ape
C) Laika the Dog
D) Ham the Chimpanzee
Answer: A - The headquarters of Greenpeace is in:
A) Amsterdam
B) Geneva
C) Paris
D) London
Answer: A - The first successful jet aircraft was developed by:
A) Germany
B) USA
C) Britain
D) France
Answer: A - The founder of the Mughal Empire defeated Ibrahim Lodhi at:
A) Panipat
B) Plassey
C) Buxar
D) Tarain
Answer: A - The first world organization was:
A) United Nations
B) League of Nations
C) NATO
D) OIC
Answer: B - The headquarters of the International Court of Justice is in:
A) Geneva
B) Brussels
C) The Hague
D) Vienna
Answer: C - The first emperor of unified Germany was:
A) Otto von Bismarck
B) Wilhelm I
C) Frederick II
D) Kaiser Wilhelm II
Answer: B - The founder of Buddhism attained enlightenment at:
A) Lumbini
B) Bodh Gaya
C) Sarnath
D) Kushinagar
Answer: B - The first successful satellite launched by the USA was:
A) Apollo 11
B) Sputnik
C) Explorer 1
D) Voyager 1
Answer: C - The headquarters of WHO is in:
A) New York
B) Geneva
C) Paris
D) Brussels
Answer: B - The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was:
A) Marie Curie
B) Mother Teresa
C) Rosalind Franklin
D) Florence Nightingale
Answer: A - The founder of the Gupta Empire used the title:
A) Maharaja
B) Sultan
C) Caliph
D) Shah
Answer: A - The first battle of Panipat was fought in:
A) 1526
B) 1556
C) 1761
D) 1857
Answer: A - The headquarters of Amnesty International was founded in:
A) Paris
B) London
C) Geneva
D) Rome
Answer: B - The first successful transatlantic flight was completed by:
A) Wright Brothers
B) Charles Lindbergh
C) Amelia Earhart
D) Yuri Gagarin
Answer: B - The founder of the Ottoman Empire belonged to the:
A) Seljuk tribe
B) Kayi tribe
C) Mongol tribe
D) Uzbek tribe
Answer: B - The first democratic constitution in the world was adopted by:
A) USA
B) Britain
C) France
D) Greece
Answer: A - The headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency is in:
A) Geneva
B) Vienna
C) Paris
D) Brussels
Answer: B - The first successful computer was invented by:
A) Charles Babbage
B) Alan Turing
C) John Atanasoff
D) Konrad Zuse
Answer: C - The founder of Pakistan presented the Fourteen Points in:
A) 1928
B) 1929
C) 1930
D) 1935
Answer: B - The first modern bank was established in:
A) Italy
B) France
C) England
D) Germany
Answer: A - The headquarters of the European Parliament is in:
A) Brussels
B) Strasbourg
C) Berlin
D) Paris
Answer: B - The first successful vaccine against rabies was developed by:
A) Fleming
B) Jenner
C) Pasteur
D) Koch
Answer: C - The founder of the Delhi Sultanate belonged to the:
A) Khilji dynasty
B) Slave dynasty
C) Tughlaq dynasty
D) Lodhi dynasty
Answer: B - The first railway line in the world was opened in:
A) France
B) Germany
C) Britain
D) USA
Answer: C - The headquarters of the UN Security Council is in:
A) Geneva
B) Paris
C) New York
D) Vienna
Answer: C - The first successful use of gunpowder in warfare occurred in:
A) India
B) China
C) Arabia
D) Europe
Answer: B - The founder of the Mughal dynasty was a descendant of:
A) Timur and Genghis Khan
B) Alexander and Cyrus
C) Abbasids and Umayyads
D) Ottomans and Safavids
Answer: A - The first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was:
A) Otto I
B) Charlemagne
C) Frederick Barbarossa
D) Henry IV
Answer: B - The headquarters of the International Red Cross is in:
A) Geneva
B) Vienna
C) Rome
D) Paris
Answer: A - The first successful steam locomotive was built by:
A) James Watt
B) George Stephenson
C) Edison
D) Fulton
Answer: B - The founder of the Sikh Empire was:
A) Guru Gobind Singh
B) Ranjit Singh
C) Banda Bahadur
D) Hari Singh Nalwa
Answer: B - The first successful human organ transplant was:
A) Kidney transplant
B) Heart transplant
C) Liver transplant
D) Lung transplant
Answer: A - The headquarters of OPEC is in:
A) Riyadh
B) Vienna
C) Tehran
D) Baghdad
Answer: B - The first battle between India and Pakistan was fought over:
A) Punjab
B) Kashmir
C) Bengal
D) Sindh
Answer: B - The founder of the Abbasid dynasty was:
A) Abu Abbas al-Saffah
B) Harun al-Rashid
C) Al-Mansur
D) Muawiyah
Answer: A - The first successful helicopter was invented by:
A) Sikorsky
B) Bell
C) Wright Brothers
D) Edison
Answer: A - The headquarters of the Non-Aligned Movement is in:
A) No permanent headquarters
B) Cairo
C) Belgrade
D) Jakarta
Answer: A - The first successful television system was developed by:
A) Marconi
B) John Logie Baird
C) Edison
D) Tesla
Answer: B - The founder of the Umayyad dynasty was:
A) Yazid
B) Muawiyah
C) Abdul Malik
D) Marwan
Answer: B - The first successful powered flight took place in:
A) 1895
B) 1901
C) 1903
D) 1910
Answer: C - The headquarters of the League of Nations was in:
A) Paris
B) London
C) Geneva
D) Vienna
Answer: C - The first woman to become Prime Minister of a Muslim country was:
A) Benazir Bhutto
B) Tansu Çiller
C) Khaleda Zia
D) Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Answer: A - The founder of the Umayyad Caliphate established the capital at:
A) Baghdad
B) Cairo
C) Damascus
D) Madinah
Answer: C - The first successful mission to the Moon was:
A) Apollo 8
B) Apollo 11
C) Sputnik 1
D) Voyager 1
Answer: B - The headquarters of the UN General Assembly is in:
A) Geneva
B) New York
C) Paris
D) Vienna
Answer: B - The first successful artificial satellite was:
A) Explorer 1
B) Sputnik 1
C) Apollo 11
D) Voyager 2
Answer: B - The founder of the Fatimid dynasty belonged to the:
A) Sunni sect
B) Shia sect
C) Khawarij
D) Sufi order
Answer: B - The first successful electric generator was invented by:
A) Faraday
B) Volta
C) Edison
D) Tesla
Answer: A - The headquarters of the Asian Development Bank is in:
A) Tokyo
B) Manila
C) Beijing
D) Bangkok
Answer: B - The first successful modern revolver was invented by:
A) Colt
B) Maxim
C) Gatling
D) Browning
Answer: A - The founder of the Mughal Empire captured Delhi after defeating:
A) Rana Sanga
B) Ibrahim Lodhi
C) Sher Shah Suri
D) Daulat Khan Lodhi
Answer: B