CBSE Questions for Class 8 General Knowledge Superlatives And First In India And World Quiz 5 - MCQExams.com

• Denim is a very strong kind of cloth. The word comes from the name of a cloth called serge.
• Serge was first made in the French town of Nimes. First called serge de Nimes, the name was soon shortened to denim.

• Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, in Physics, and with her later win, in Chemistry, she became the first person to claim Nobel honours twice. 
• Marie Curie is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to the fight against cancer. 

• Mike Tyson is an American former professional boxer, who had a successful 20 year career within the sport. 
• Despite a few ups and downs along the way. he was the undisputed world heavyweight champion, and still holds the record as the youngest boxer ever to win a heavyweight title at 20 years.
• Tyson was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to unify them successively. He is still considered, to this day, one of the best boxers of all time.

• Dr. Vijay Bhatkar is one of most acclaimed and internationally acknowledged scientists of India.
• He is best known as the architect of India's national initiative in supercomputing, where he led the development of India's first supercomputer Param in 1990.
• Currently he is heading the National Supercomputing Mission of developing Exascale Architecture Supercomputing for India.

• The world’s first 3D-printed aircraft ‘Thor’ has been officially launched by Airbus, a European aerospace company, at the International Aerospace Exhibition held in Schoenefeld, Germany. 
• The Thor stands for ‘Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality’. In Thor, the only parts that are not printed from a substance called polyamide are the electrical elements. 
• It is a windowless drone that weighs just 21 kg and is only 13 feet long. It is lighter, faster and cheaper.

• The Gotthard Base Tunnel is a railway tunnel in Switzerland. With a route length of 57.09 km, it is the longest tunnel in the world.
• The main purpose of the Gotthard Base Tunnel is to increase local transport capacity through the Swiss Alpine barrier.

The first and only tennis player to achieve the Golden Slam by winning all four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year is steffi Graf. Being  is a German former professional tennis player, she was ranked world No. 1 and won 22 Grand Slam singles titles.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on an official visit to Israel from 4th to 6th July 2017. 
• It was the first ever visit of an incumbent Indian prime minister. He was given the red carpet treatment during his trip to Israel.

• The world’s first ever cloned male buffalo calf named Shrestha was born on 26 August 2010 at the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI).
• The calf was born through hand- guided cloning technique.

• The World's longest rail tunnel is Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland.
• It connects northern and southern Europe and also shortens travel time for many rail routes.
• It was built in 17 years’ time frame starting in 1992 as a part of AlpTransit project, also known as New Railway Link through the Alps.