Quiz  /  Who Was First? Quiz

  • 1. 
    Who was the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress?

  • Carol Moseley Braun
  • Toni Cade Bambara
  • Cynthia McKinney
  • Shirley Chisholm

  • 2. 
    Who was the first Roman emperor?

  • Julius Caesar
  • Augustus
  • Constantine
  • Marcus Aurelius

  • 3. 
    Who was the only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms?

  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Tony Blair
  • Winston Churchill
  • Clement Attlee

  • 4. 
    Which American leader was “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen”?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • George Washington
  • Thomas Jefferson

  • 5. 
    Who was the first woman in New Zealand to hold the office of prime minister immediately following an election?

  • Helen Clark
  • Mary Robinson
  • Julia Gillard
  • Eugenia Charles

  • 6. 
    Who was Ireland’s first woman president?

  • Mary Robinson
  • Golda Meir
  • Jennifer Shipley
  • Helen Clark

  • 7. 
    Which U.S. president was the first chief executive to die in office?

  • Andrew Johnson
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • William Henry Harrison
  • James Abram Garfield

  • 8. 
    Who were the first Europeans to colonize what is now New York?

  • the French
  • the Spanish
  • the Dutch
  • the British

  • 9. 
    Who was the legendary first king of unified Egypt?

  • Sesostris II
  • Menes
  • Tutankhamen
  • Khufu

  • 10. 
    According to tradition, which saint was the first pope?

  • Sylvester I
  • Paul
  • Peter
  • Gregory I

  • 11. 
    Which explorer led the first circumnavigation of the world (until he was killed in the Philippines)?

  • Ferdinand Magellan
  • Vasco da Gama
  • John Cabot
  • Diogo Gomes

  • 12. 
    Who was the first English slave trader?

  • Francis Drake
  • John Cabot
  • John Hawkins
  • Christopher Columbus

  • 13. 
    Who is generally regarded as the first British prime minister?

  • Charles Townshend
  • James Stanhope
  • Robert Walpole
  • James Edward Stuart

  • 14. 
    Which ruler issued what was long considered the first set of laws in human history?

  • Moses
  • Solon
  • Justinian I
  • Hammurabi

  • 15. 
    Who was the first to use the term Cold War in the United States?

  • John F. Kennedy
  • George C. Marshall
  • Winston Churchill
  • Bernard Baruch

  • 16. 
    Who is regarded as the initiator, in the 15th century, of the Age of Discovery?

  • Henry the Navigator
  • Amerigo Vespucci
  • Isabella I
  • Christopher Columbus
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