Firsts in the World - Specialized History Quiz

*Field*	*Name*	*Year*
Man to reach South Pole	Roald Amundsen (Norway)	1911
Man to reach North Pole	Robert E. Peary (USA)	1909
Woman to reach North Pole	Mrs. Karoline Mikkelsen (Norway)	1935
Woman to reach South Pole	Mrs. Fran Phipps (Canada)	1971
Man to go to space	Yuri Gagarin (former USSR)	1961
Man to set foot on the Moon	Neil Alden Armstrong (USA)	1969
Man to walk in Space	Alexei Leonov (Former USSR)	1965
Woman Cosmonaut in Space	Valentina Terehkova (former USSR)	1963
Man to climb Mount Everest	Tenzing Norgay (Nepal)	1953
Woman to climb Mount Everest	Junko Tabei (Japan)	1975
President of USA	George Washington	1789
Foreign invader of India	Alexander the Great (Greece)	326bc
Woman to cross the Strait of Gibraltar	Arti Pradhan (India)	1988
Handicapped man to cross Strait of Gibraltar (deaf and dumb)	Taranath Shenoy (India)	1988
President of Chinese Republic	Dr. Sun Yat-Sen	1921-1925
Chairman of People’s Republic of China	Mao Tse Tung	1949-1976
Man to sail around the world	Ferdinand Magellan (Portugal)	1519-1521
First Prime Minister of a country	Sir Robert Walpole (Britain)	1721-1742
Lady Prime Minister of country	Srimavo Bhandarnaike (Sri Lanka)	1970-1977
Lady Prime Minister of England	Mrs. Margaret Thatcher	1979-1990
Polar circumnavigation	Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Charles Burton (Britain)	1979-1982
Chinese traveler to India	Fahien	405-411
Woman Bishop	Rev. Barbara C. Harris (USA)	1988
First to have skied to both North and South Poles, and climbed Mount Everest	Erling Kagge (Norway)	1994