General knowledge questions and answers GK quiz
1. Who was the first man to walk on moon?
a. Yuri Gagarin
b. Luis Armstrong
c. Neil Armstrong
2. Which explorer explored Australia and South Pacific Regions ?
a. James Cook
b. Thomas Cook
c. Daniel Boon
3. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to reach the top of which mountain ?
a. Denali
b. Kilimanjaro
c. Mount Everest
4. In the late 1200s, Marco Polo travelled to China with his father and spent twenty years in the court of which Mongol ruler ?
a. Genghis Khan
b. Kublai Khan
c. Hannibal
5. Who was the first American to orbit the Earth ? He was also the oldest astronaut.
a. Niel Armstrong
b. Yuri Gagarin
c. John Glenn
6. Who was the first man to lead an exploration team to South Pole ?
a. Walter Scott
b. Roald Amundsen
c. Ronald Regan
7. Who was the first Indian to travel in space ?
a. Sunil Sharma
b. Rakesh Sharma
c. Rahul Sharma
8. Leif Erikson is credited with being one of the first Europeans to set foot on which continent, in around AD 1000.
a. South America
b. Australia
c. North America
