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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 geography australia - location, political divisions and physical features australia australia australia - geographical features

When sheep stations began in Australia?

  1. 1668

  2. 1788

  3. 1812

  4. 1834
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

1788.
Sheep stations and sheep husbandry began in Australia when the British started raising sheep in 1788 at Sydney Cove. In Australia, the owner of a sheep station can be called a pastoralist, grazier; or formerly, a squatter, as in "Waltzing Matilda".

Multiple choice geography australia - location, political divisions and physical features australia australia australia - geographical features

When was the Bowen method developed for removing wool? 

  1. 1878

  2. 1950

  3. 1963

  4. 1987
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

1950,

Wool removal,
It is shorn using a mechanical handpiece. The wool is removed by following an efficient set of movements, devised by Godfrey Bowen in 1950, (the Bowen Technique) or the Tally-Hi method developed in 1963 and promoted by the Australian Wool Corporation.

Multiple choice geography international development international development and world population and its impact on resources population growth and impact on resources reproductive health in humans

In which year was Sputnik 1 launched?

  1. 1957

  2. 1975

  3. 1950

  4. 1948
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses.

Multiple choice labour and its division social stratification labour sociology social inequality

When did Plato found the Academy?

  1. 357 BCE

  2. 387 BCE

  3. 367 BCE

  4. 397 BCE
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

In about 387 BCE Plato founded his Academy. The name Academy comes from the name of a famous Athenian hero called Akademos. Here Plato taught Political Philosophy which contained politics, ethics, mathematics and sociology.

Multiple choice history the industrial age and change of life of people the age canal and great engineers industries and impact impact of industrial revolution

When was the world's first passenger railway opened?

  1. 1830

  2. 1835

  3. 1840

  4. 1845
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which opened in 1830, was the first modern railroad. It was a public carrier of both passengers and freight. By 1870 Britain had about 13,500 miles (21,700 km) of railroad. Hence, Option A is correct.

Multiple choice history the industrial age and change of life of people the age canal and great engineers industries and impact impact of industrial revolution

When did George Stephenson build the first railway designed for the locomotive?

  1. Between 1830 and 1832

  2. Between 1822 and 1825

  3. Between 1826 and 1828

  4. Between 1835 and 1837
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Stockton and Darlington Railway, which was the first railway designed specifically for locomotive traction, was built between 1822 and 1825.

Multiple choice social studies importance of transport system importance of transportation system introduction to transport and communication transportation services language, writing and great books

The first  geostationary satellite was launched in

  1. 1954

  2. 1964

  3. 1988

  4. none of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

It was syncom 3. It was launched in 1964. This was launched in the orbit near the International Date Line had the addition of the wideband channel for television. It was used to telecast olympics in Tokyo in 1964.

Multiple choice commercial applications bioenergy biofuels making biofuels technological and industrial development

Gasohol was first used in

  1. 1970's

  2. 1980's

  3. 1940's

  4. 1800's
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Gasoline or petrol is a derivative product of petroleum distillation. The ethanol or ethyl alcohol is produced from fermentation and distillation of grains e.g., corn, barley, wheat. When gasoline is blended with ethanol it becomes Gasohol, the percentage is 90 and 10 respectively. It was first used in Nebraska 1940. It is used as an alternative fuel. Hence the first use of Gasohol was in the 1940s.

Hence, the correct answer is '1940's'.