Article Detail Name of the first country to issue paper currency ? Answer: China Similar Questions : 1. Who was first woman president of a country ? Answer: Maria Estela Peron of Argentina 2. Name of first Men to climb Mt. Everest ? Answer: Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary (29th May, 1953) 3. Who was first to won Nobel Prize for Medicine ? Answer: A.E. Wonn Behrig of Germany 4. Which country won first World Cup Football ? Answer: Uruguay in 1930 5. Who won first Nobel prize for Literature ? Answer: Rene F.A. and Sulli Pradhom (France) 6. Who was first man to set foot on moon ? Answer: Neil Armstrong (USA) 7. Who was first space tourist ? Answer: Dennis Tito of USA in 2001 Read more from - First in World