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Historical Dates and Firsts

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Historical dates and firsts questions test your memory of significant global milestones in sports, science, technology, and literature. These factual questions appear regularly in SSC, banking, and state PSC general awareness papers. Use these questions to quickly memorize important historical events and their exact years.

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Historical Dates and Firsts Questions

Multiple choice

The aeroplane was invented in:

  1. 1901

  2. 1905

  3. 1903

  4. 1907
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Wright brothers achieved the first powered, controlled, and sustained flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Multiple choice

D. D. T. was first manufactured in the year

  1. 1935

  2. 1940

  3. 1945

  4. 1950
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was first synthesized in 1874, but its insecticidal properties were discovered by Paul Muller in 1939. It began to be manufactured and used on a large scale around 1940.

Multiple choice

APOLLO 10 was launched in

  1. 1970

  2. 1969

  3. 1968

  4. 1971
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Apollo 10 was a crewed mission in the Apollo program, launched on May 18, 1969, to test the lunar module in lunar orbit.

Multiple choice

The Olympic flag was created in the year

  1. 1913

  2. 1912

  3. 1915

  4. 1909
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Olympic flag, featuring the five interlocking rings, was designed by Pierre de Coubertin in 1913 and first flown in 1920.

Multiple choice

The Sheep Dolly was cloned in the year

  1. 1993

  2. 1997

  3. 1995

  4. 1994
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Dolly the sheep was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, and the successful cloning was announced in 1997.

Multiple choice

Chain procedure was devised in the year

  1. 1934

  2. 1936

  3. 1938

  4. 1965
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

S.R. Ranganathan devised the chain procedure for subject indexing in 1934, first introducing it in his work 'Theory of Library Catalogue'.