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How do I improve my general knowledge? Many people ask this question. So, I've decided to put some general knowledge questions in the form of a quiz along with their answers so that you can learn and improve your general knowledge. If you have any tips or suggestions to improve general knowledge and would like to share them with our readers then you are most welcome to put them in your comments. If this quiz is helpful to you then make sure to send it to as many friends as you can so that they too can benefit from it.

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01 Man to reach South Pole Ronald Amundson (Norway) 1911
02 Man to reach North Pole Robert E Peary 1909
03 Woman to reach North Pole  Karoline Mikkelsen 1935
04 Woman to reach South Fran Phipps (Canada) 1971
05 First Man to go in space Yuri Gagrin (former USSR) 1961
06 Man to set foot on the moon Neil Alden Armstrong (USA) 1969
07 Man to walk in space Alexei Leonov (former USSR) 1965
08 Woman cosmonaut in space Valentina Tereshkova (former USSR) 1963
09 Men to climb Mt Everest Tenzmg Norgay (India) and Edmund Hillary (ISA) 1953
10 Woman t climb Mt Everest Junko Taibei (Japan) 1975
11 Man to sail round the world Ferdinand Magellan (Portugal) 1480-1521
12 Polar circumnavigation Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Charles Burton (Britain) 1979-82
13 President of Chinese Republic Dr Sun Yat-Sen 1921-25
14 Chairman of People's Republic of China Mao Tse-Tung 1949-76
15 President of USA George Washigton 1789
16 Prime Minister of England Sir Robert Walpole 1721-42
17 Lady Prime Minister of a Country Srimavo Bhandarnaike (Sri Lanka) 1970-77
18 Lady Prime Minister of England Mrs. Margaret Thatcher 1979-90
19 Foreign invader of India Alexander the Great 326 BC
20 Chinese traveller to India Fa-hien 405-11
21 Woman Bishop Rev Barbara C Harris (USA) 1988
22 Lady President of a Country Maria Estate Pew (Argentina)

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