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How well do you know these products and people?

Last updated on: August 3, 2012 12:15 IST


Photographs: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters

The phrase for this month is – Who made it 'first' to the finish line? Keeping in line with this spirit, we bring you a few world's first. Take this quiz to find out how much you know about them:


1. In which country did the world's first paper money appear?

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Photographs: Michaela Rehle/Reuters

2. Which was America's first daily newspaper?

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Photographs: Charles Platiau/ Reuters

3. Which was the first movie magazine?

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Photographs: Claudia Daut/Reuters

4. Which was the world's first postage stamp?

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Photographs: Carlos Camara/Reuters

5. Who invented the Scotch Tape?

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6. Who pioneered the world's first ambulance?

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Photographs: Reuters

7. Who made the first rubber balloons?

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Photographs: Courtesy, Wikimedia Commons.

8. Who invented the world's first matchstick?

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Photographs: Reuters

9. Who is the first Indian woman to graduate from the Harvard Business School?

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Photographs: Parth Sanyal/ Reuters

10. What was the first Ambassador car called?

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Image: Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal
Photographs: Jumana El Heloueh/Reuters

11. What was Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal's 1st job?

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12. Which actress was Lux soap's first brand ambassador?

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Photographs: Roula Naeimeh/Reuters

13. Who introduced the first ambulance?

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Photographs: Tami Chappell/Reuters

14. Which is the world's first airport?

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Photographs: Jayanta Shaw/Reuters

15. What was Narayana Murthy's first job?

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Photographs: Reuters

16. Who issued the world's first coins?

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Photographs: Eric Gaillard/Reuters

17. Which is the world's first credit card?

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Photographs: Reuters

18. Which is the world's first low-cost airline?

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Photographs: Zahid Hussein/Reuters

19. Which is the world's 1st mobile phone virus?

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Photographs: Reuters

20. When was India's 1st Budget presented?