1. Who was the first popularly elected leader of Russia?

2. Who was the first secretary-general of the United Nations?

3. Which U.S. first lady was the first to win elective office in her own right?

4. Who was the first prime minister of Israel?

5. Which U.S. president was the first to gain office by a direct appeal to the voters?

6. Who was the first Hanoverian king of Great Britain?

7. Who was the first president of Turkey?

8. Who was the first pope to enter the Great Synagogue of Rome?

9. When was December 25 first identified as the date of Christmas?

10. Who was the first American woman executed for espionage?

11. When was the use of decorated Easter eggs first recorded?

12. Which religious leader had a life-changing experience after meeting a sick man for the first time?

13. Who founded the Jiyūtō, Japan’s first political party?

14. Who was the first prime minister of independent Kenya?

15. Who was the first archbishop of Canterbury?

16. Who was among the first European navigators to recognize that a “New World” had been discovered in the 15th century?