Statistics for First countries and states to...

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First country to put man on the moon	USA	100%
First country with a red, white and blue flag	Netherlands	85%
First country to win the football World Cup	Uruguay	80%
First country to win Eurovision Song Contest	Switzerland	78%
First country to send satellite to Mars on maiden voyage	India	76%
First neutral country	Sweden	74%
First country to use paper money	China	70%
First country alphabetically	Afghanistan	69%
First county to ratify European constitution	Italy	67%
First country to secede from the USSR	Estonia	61%
First US state to join the Union	Delaware	59%
First country of the UK to employ more people in industry than agriculture	Wales	57%
First country to decriminalise homosexuality	Russia	52%
First US state to leave the Union	South Carolina	41%
First country to have new year	Kiribati	35%
First Chrisitan country	Armenia	31%
First country to have a woman prime minister	Sri Lanka	28%
First US state to abolish slavery	Vermont	28%
First US state to legalise abortion	Hawaii	20%
First US state to abolish the death penalty	Michigan	20%
First country to have a non-royal woman head of state	Tannu-Tuva	13%
First country to be suspended from The Commonwealth	Nigeria	9%
First country to abolish the death penalty	Venezuela	9%
First country to ban use of animals in circuses	Bolivia	7%
First country to have a mandatory DNA database	Kuwait	7%
First country to ban plastic bags	Rwanda	6%