Multiple choice general knowledge

Who was the first person to become a billionaire?

  1. Alan Rufus

  2. Asaf Jah VII

  3. John D. Rockefeller

  4. Henry Ford
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Explanation

John D. Rockefeller became the world's first confirmed billionaire in 1916 when his net worth crossed $1 billion. He founded Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Alan Rufus was a wealthy Norman nobleman, Asaf Jah VII was a Nizam of Hyderabad, and Henry Ford was a later billionaire industrialist.

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