First in India

1.Who was the first President of India?

• Rajendra Prasad
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• S. Radhakrishnan

Ans Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

2.Who was the first Prime Minister of India?

• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Indira Gandhi
• Sardar Patel
• Lal Bahadur Shastri

Ans Jawaharlal Nehru

3.Who was the first woman Prime Minister of India?

• Indira Gandhi
• Sarojini Naidu
• Pratibha Patil
• Margaret Alva

Ans Indira Gandhi

4.Who was the first Chief Justice of India?

• Harilal Jekisundas Kania
• M. Patanjali Sastri
• Sarv Mittra Sikri
• Y. V. Chandrachud

Ans Harilal Jekisundas Kania

5.Who was the first woman Chief Justice of India?

• Justice Leila Seth
• Ruma Pal
• Sujata Manohar
• M. Fathima Beevi

Ans M. Fathima Beevi

6.Who was the first Vice President of India?

• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Zakir Husain
• V. V. Giri
• M. Venkaiah Naidu

Ans Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

7.Who was the first woman President of India?

• Pratibha Patil
• Indira Gandhi
• Sarojini Naidu
• Sheila Dikshit

Ans Pratibha Patil

8.Who was the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold medal?

• Abhinav Bindra
• Sushil Kumar
• P. V. Sindhu
• Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

Ans Abhinav Bindra

9.Who was the first Indian woman to win an individual Olympic medal?

• Sakshi Malik
• P. V. Sindhu
• Mary Kom
• Anju Bobby George

Ans P. V. Sindhu

10.Who was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics?

• C. V. Raman
• S. Chandrasekhar
• Satyendra Nath Bose
• Homi J. Bhabha

Ans C. V. Raman

11.Who was the first woman Governor of an Indian state?

• Sarojini Naidu
• Sucheta Kriplani
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
• Padmaja Naidu

Ans Sarojini Naidu

12.Who was the first woman Chief Minister of an Indian state?

• Sucheta Kriplani
• Indira Gandhi
• J. Jayalalithaa
• Mamata Banerjee

Ans Sucheta Kriplani

13.Who was the first Indian in space?

• Rakesh Sharma
• Kalpana Chawla
• Sunita Williams
• Yuri Gagarin

Ans Rakesh Sharma

14.Who was the first woman to climb Mount Everest?

• Junko Tabei
• Reinhold Messner
• Tenzing Norgay
• Edmund Hillary

Ans Junko Tabei

15.Who was the first woman to receive the Bharat Ratna?

• Indira Gandhi
• Sarojini Naidu
• Mother Teresa
• Aruna Asaf Ali

Ans Sarojini Naidu

16.Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?

• Rabindranath Tagore
• Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Sarojini Naidu
• Amartya Sen

Ans Rabindranath Tagore

17.Who was the first Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna posthumously?

• Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Vinoba Bhave
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Subhas Chandra Bose

Ans Lal Bahadur Shastri

18.Who was the first Indian woman to win the Miss World title?

• Rita Faria
• Sushmita Sen
• Aishwarya Rai
• Manushi Chhillar

Ans Rita Faria

19.Who was the first woman to receive the Ashoka Chakra?

• Neerja Bhanot
• Kiran Bedi
• Punita Arora
• Roopam Kaur

Ans Neerja Bhanot

20.Who was the first Indian to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award?

• Vinoba Bhave
• C. Rajagopalachari
• Acharya Vinoba Bhave
• Jai Prakash Narayan

Ans Acharya Vinoba Bhave

21.Who was the first Indian woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal?

• Neeraj Chopra
• Abhinav Bindra
• Saina Nehwal
• P. V. Sindhu

Ans P. V. Sindhu

22.Who was the first woman to become the Chief Justice of a High Court in India?

• Leila Seth
• Ruma Pal
• Sujata Manohar
• M. Fathima Beevi

Ans Leila Seth

23.Who was the first woman to win the Jnanpith Award?

• Ashapoorna Devi
• Mahasweta Devi
• Amrita Pritam
• Krishna Sobti

Ans Amrita Pritam

24.Who was the first Indian to win the Booker Prize?

• Arundhati Roy
• Aravind Adiga
• Salman Rushdie
• Kiran Desai

Ans Arundhati Roy

25.Who was the first Indian woman to swim across the English Channel?

• Arati Saha
• Mihir Sen
• Bula Chowdhury
• Vijaya Raje Scindia

Ans Arati Saha

26.Who was the first Indian to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

• Devika Rani
• Prithviraj Kapoor
• Raj Kapoor
• B. N. Sircar

Ans Prithviraj Kapoor

27.Who was the first woman to climb Mount Everest twice?

• Santosh Yadav
• Bachendri Pal
• Anshu Jamsenpa
• Tamae Watanabe

Ans Santosh Yadav

28.Who was the first Indian to win an individual Olympic silver medal?

• Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
• Vijender Singh
• Sushil Kumar
• P. V. Sindhu

Ans Sushil Kumar

29.Who was the first woman to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award?

• Mahadevi Verma
• Amrita Pritam
• Qurratulain Hyder
• Krishna Sobti

Ans Amrita Pritam

30.Who was the first Indian woman to win a Nobel Prize?

• Mother Teresa
• Amartya Sen
• Aruna Asaf Ali
• Sarojini Naidu

Ans Mother Teresa

31.Who was the first Indian to climb Mount Everest without oxygen?

• Phu Dorji
• Apa Sherpa
• Tenzing Norgay
• Bachendri Pal

Ans Phu Dorji