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Q. Who was the first Governor General of Bengal?


a) Warren Hastings
b) Lord William Bentinck
c) Lord Clive
d) Satyendra Nath Tagore
Q. Who served as the last Governor General and the first Viceroy of
India?
• a) Lord Canning
• b) Lord Louis Mountbatten
• c) Warren Hastings
• d) General K.M. Cariappa
Q. Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress?
a) W.C. Banerjee
b) Dr. Sachchida Nand Sinha
c) C. Rajagopalachari
d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Q. Who was the first Indian to pass the Indian Civil Services (ICS)
examination?
a) Satyendra Nath Tagore
b) Dr. Nagendra Singh
c) C. Rajagopalachari
d) Satyendra Nath Tagore
Q. Who was the first Commander-in-Chief of
Free India?
a) General K.M. Cariappa
b) Rabindranath Tagore
c) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
d) General S.F.J. Manekshaw
Q. Who was the First Indian to go into space
as a cosmonaut?
a) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
b) Satyendra Nath Tagore
c) Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
d) General K.M. Cariappa
Q. Which three individuals were awarded the Bharat Ratna in the
year 1954?
• a) Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• b) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, C.V. Raman
• c) Rabindranath Tagore, B.R. Ambedkar, Bhagat Singh
• d) Subhas Chandra Bose, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Maulana Abul
Kalam Azad
• Who was the first Indian to win the Jnanpeeth Award?
• a) Mihir Sen
• b) G. Shankar Kurup
• c) Dr. Zakir Hussain
• d) Baidyanath Nath
• Who was the first Muslim President of the Indian Republic?
• a) Mihir Sen
• b) G. Shankar Kurup
• c) Dr. Zakir Hussain
• d) Baidyanath Nath
• Who was the first Indian to win
the Palk Strait Ocean Swimming
Contest?
• a) Mihir Sen
• b) G. Shankar Kurup
• c) Dr. Zakir Hussain
• d) Baidyanath Nath
• Who was the first Education Minister of Independent India?
• a) M.C. Chagla
• b) Dr. K.L. Shrimali
• c) Dr. Zakir Hussain
• d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• Who was the first person to receive
the Param Vir Chakra?
• a) Air Marshal Subroto Mukheriee
• b) General Maharaja Sri Rajendra
Singh Jadeja
• c) Vice-Admiral R.D. Katari
• d) Major Somnath Sharma
• Who was the first Chief of
Defence Staff (CDS) of India?
• a) Air Marshal Subroto
Mukheriee
• b) General Maharaja Sri
Rajendra Singh Jadeja
• c) Vice-Admiral R.D. Katari
• d) Gen. Bipin Rawat
• Who was the first Chief of Naval Staff of India?
• a) Vice- Admiral Dinesh K Trpathi
• b) Vice-Admiral Rajendra Singh Jadeja
• c) Vice-Admiral R.D. Katari
• d) Vice- Admiral R Hari Kumar
• Who was the first Chief of Army Staff of India?
• a) General Param Nath Thapa
• b) General Maharaja Sri Rajendra Singh Jadeja
• c) General Satyavan Mallana
• d) Gen. Bipin Rawat
Q. Who was the first Indian to
reach the South Pole?
• a) Subramanyan
Chandrasekhar
• b) Lt. Ram Charan
• c) Col. J.K. Bajaj
• d) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
Q. Who was the first Indian to win the World Billiards Trophy?
• a) Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
• b) Wilson Jones
• c) Saifuddin Kitchlew
• d) Pankaj Adwani
• Who was the first Indian author to receive the Anderson Award?
• a) Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
• b) Ruskin Bond
• c) Saifuddin Kitchlew
• d) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
• Who was the first Indian to climb Mt. Everest twice?
• a) Nawang Gombu Sherpa
• b) Sherpa Phu Dorji
• c) Lt. Ram Charan
• d) Col. J.K. Bajaj
• Who was India's first Chief Justice?
• A) Justice Ranjan Gogoi
• b) Justice Hiralal J. Kania
• c) Justice lalit Mohan Sharma
• d) Justice Sanjive Kumar
• Who was the first Muslim President of the Indian National
Congress?
• a) Abul Kalam Azad
• b) Badruddin Tayab Ji
• c) Rafi Ahmad
• d) Zakir Husain
• Who was India's first Deputy Prime Minister?
• a) Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
• b) Brajesh Mishra
• c) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
• d) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
• Who was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Economics?
• a) Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
• b) Brajesh Mishra
• c) Saifuddin Kitchlew
• d) Dr. Amartya Sen
• Who was the first Indian to win the Magsaysay Award?
• a) Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
• b) Brajesh Mishra
• c) Saifuddin Kitchlew
• d) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
• Who was the first Indian to win the Stalin Award?
• a) Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
• b) Brajesh Mishra
• c) Saifuddin Kitchlew
• d) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
• Who served as India's first National Security Advisor (NSA)?
• a) Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
• b) Brajesh Mishra
• c) Saifuddin Kitchlew
• d) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
• Who was the first Indian scientist of Indian origin to win the Nobel
Prize in Physics?
• a) Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
• b) Brajesh Mishra
• c) Saifuddin Kitchlew
• d) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
• Who was the first Woman to become President of the Indian
National Congress (INC)?
• a) Annie Besant
• b) Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
• c) Nirja Bhanot
• d) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
• Who was the first Indian Woman Judge of the Supreme Court?
• a) Annie Besant
• b) Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
• c) Nirja Bhanot
• d) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
• Who was the first Indian Woman Ambassador at the United
Nations?
• a) Annie Besant
• b) Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
• c) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
• d) Arati Saha
• Who was the first Indian Woman to swim across the English
Channel?
• a) Aarti Saha
• b) Bachendri Pal
• c) Reita Faria
• d) Santosh Yadav
• Who was the first Indian Woman to win the Nobel Prize?
• a) Mother Teresa (Correct Answer)
• b) Ashapurna Devi
• c) Smt. Indira Gandhi
• d) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
• Who was the first Indian Woman to become 'Miss World'?
• a) Reita Faria
• b) Bachendri Pal
• c) Sushmita Sen
• d) Sania Mirza
• Who was the first Indian Woman to go into space?
• a) M.S. Subbulakshmi
• b) Kalpana Chawla
• c) Sunita Willams
• d) Snehlata Shrivastav
• Who was the first Female Speaker of the Lok Sabha?
• a) Meira Kumar
• b) Violet Alva
• c) Radhabai Subbarayan
• d) Aarti Verma
• Who was the first Female Member of Parliament?
• a) Meira Kumar
• b) Snehlata Shrivastav
• c) Radhabai Subbarayan
• d) Rose Millian Bathew
• Who was the first Female IAS Officer?
• a) Meira Kumar
• b) Snehlata Shrivastav
• c) Anna George
• d) Rose Millian Bathew
• Who was the first Female Governor of an Indian state?
• a) Meira Kumar
• b) Snehlata Shrivastav
• c) Violet Alva
• d) Sarojini Naidu
• Who was the first Indian woman doctor?
• a) Durga
• b) Kadambini Ganguly
• c) D. & Durga
• d) DI A N. Polley
• Who was the first Indian woman to participate in the Olympics?
• a) N. Polley
• b) Meira Kumar
• c) Durga
• d) D. & Durga
• Who was the first Indian woman to win a silver medal in the
Olympics?
• a) Sania Mirza
• b) PV Sindhu
• c) Sakshi Malik
• d) Hima Das
• Who was the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Olympic
medal?
• a) Sania Mirza
• b) PV Sindhu
• c) Sakshi Malik
• d) Hima Das
• Who was the first Indian woman fighter pilot to fly a fighter jet?
• a) Avani Chaturvedi
• b) Shubhangi Swaroop
• c) Hima Das
• d) Hlina Jaiswal
• Who was the first Indian recipient of the 'Oscar' Award?
• a) Bhanu Athaiya
• b) Dadasaheb Phalke
• c) Ardeshir Irani
• d) Sohrab Modi
• Where was the first atomic power station established in India?
• a) Mumbai
• b) Kolkata
• c) Tarapur
• d) New Delhi
• In which city was the first Asian Games held?
• a) Mumbai
• b) New Delhi
• c) Kolkata
• d) Chennai
• Which was the first organized university in India?
• a) Delhi University
• b) Nalanda University
• c) Mumbai University
• d) Kolkata University
• What was the title of the first silent movie made in India?
• a) Raja Harishchandra
• b) Alam Ara
• c) Kisan kanya
• d) kaagaz ke phool

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