Q41. Who was the first woman to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition?
a) Louise Boyd
b) Jackie Ronne
c) Maria Klenova
d) Caroline Mikkelsen
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Correct Answer: b) Jackie Ronne
Explanation: Jackie Ronne was the first woman to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition. She participated in the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1946-1948), led by her husband, Finn Ronne.
Q42. Who was the first man to draw the map of the Earth?
a) Eratosthenes
b) Ptolemy
c) Anaximander
d) Hecataeus
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Correct Answer: c) Anaximander
Explanation: Anaximander, a Greek philosopher who lived between 610 and 542 BC, is credited with being the first person to draw a map of the Earth. His map was a simple representation of the known world at the time.
Q43. Who was the first man to compile an encyclopedia?
a) Pliny the Elder
b) Aspheosis (Athens)
c) Isidore of Seville
d) Diderot and d’Alembert
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Correct Answer: b) Aspheosis (Athens)
Explanation: Aspheosis, an Athenian scholar, is credited with being the first person to compile an encyclopedia. However, little is known about his life or the contents of his work.
Q44. Who is the oldest man to climb Mount Everest?
a) Min Bahadur Sherchan
b) Yuichiro Miura
c) Tamae Watanabe
d) Reinhold Messner
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Correct Answer: b) Yuichiro Miura
Explanation: Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese mountaineer, became the oldest person to climb Mount Everest at the age of 80 in 2013.
Q45. Who was the first Asian to win the Wimbledon Trophy?
a) Arthur Ashe (USA)
b) Yannick Noah (France)
c) Li Na (China)
d) Michael Chang (USA)
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Correct Answer: a) Arthur Ashe (USA)
Explanation: Arthur Ashe, an American tennis player, was the first Asian to win the Wimbledon Trophy. He won the men’s singles title in 1975. Although Ashe was born in the United States, he was of African-American and Asian-American heritage.
Q46. Who was the first man to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) Sully Prudhomme (France)
b) Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (Norway)
c) Rabindranath Tagore (India)
d) Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden)
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Correct Answer: a) Sully Prudhomme (France)
Explanation: Sully Prudhomme, a French poet and essayist, was the first person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901.
Q47. Who were the first men to win the Nobel Prize for Peace?
a) Jean H. Dunant (Switzerland) & Frederic Passy (France)
b) Theodore Roosevelt (USA)
c) Elihu Root (USA)
d) Tobias Asser (Netherlands) & Alfred Fried (Austria)
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Correct Answer: a) Jean H. Dunant (Switzerland) & Frederic Passy (France)
Explanation: Jean Henri Dunant, a Swiss humanitarian, and Frédéric Passy, a French economist, were the first recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
Q48. Who was the first man to win the Nobel Prize for Physics?
a) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Germany)
b) Hendrik Lorentz (Netherlands) & Pieter Zeeman (Netherlands)
c) Antoine Henri Becquerel (France)
d) Pierre Curie (France) & Marie Curie (France)
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Correct Answer: a) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Germany)
Explanation: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, a German physicist, was the first person to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901 for his discovery of X-rays.
Q49. Who was the first man to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
a) Jacobus H. van ‘t Hoff (Netherlands)
b) Svante Arrhenius (Sweden)
c) Pierre Curie (France)
d) Henri Moissan (France)
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Correct Answer: a) Jacobus H. van ‘t Hoff (Netherlands)
Explanation: Jacobus H. van ‘t Hoff, a Dutch chemist, was the first person to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1901. He was awarded the prize for his work on the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions.
Q50. Who was the first man to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine?
a) Emil Adolf von Behring (Germany)
b) Ronald A. Ross (United Kingdom)
c) Niels Ryberg Finsen (Denmark)
d) Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Russia)
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Correct Answer: a) Emil Adolf von Behring (Germany)
Explanation: Emil Adolf von Behring, a German physiologist, was the first person to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1901. He was awarded the prize for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, which opened a new road in the domain of medical science and therapeutics.