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1. First Indian Reserve Bank Governor ?

a) C D Deshmukh

b) C Ranga rajan

c) Dr. Manmohan singh 

d) K G Ambergaonkar

Ans: a) C D Deshmukh

2. Who is First President of India ?

a) Sarvepalli Radha krishnan

b) V V giri

c) Dr.Rajendra prasad

d) C Rajagopalachari

Ans: c) Dr.Rajendra prasad

3. Who is our first Chief election Commissioner ?

a) Kalyan Sundaram

b) T Swaminathan

c) V S Ramadevi

d) Sukumar sen

Ans: d) Sukumar sen

4. First Indian Man Booker prize winner ?

a) Aravind Adiga

b) Arundhati roy

c) Jhumpa lahiri

d) Vikram seth

Ans: b) Arundhati roy

5. Who is the First Indian to receive Nobel prize ?

a) C V Raman

b) Amartya sen

c) Rabindranath Tagore

d) Hargobind Khorana

Ans: c) Rabindranath Tagore  (recieved in Literature categoy in the year 1913.he is also first asian to recieve the Nobel prize)

6. First Woman to recieve Bharat Ratna ?

a) Indira Gandhi

b) Aruna Asaf ali

c) M S Subbulakshmi

d) Lata mangeshkar

Ans: a) Indira Gandhi

7. First Leader of Opposition in India ?

a) Dr. Syama Prasad Mukerji

b) Kamaraj nadar

c) A K Gopalan

d)C Rajagopalachari

Ans: c) A K Gopalan

He was a Communist leader and emmber of  Loksbaha for 5 Consecutive terms.

8. .Who is First Woman Governor of a state ?

a) Suchta kriplani

b) Sarojini Naidu

c) Indira gandhi

d) Vijaya lakshmi pandit

Ans: b) Sarojini Naidu

She was first governor to Uttar pradesh state from 1947 -1949.

9. First Nuclear reactor established in India at ?

a) Sriharikota

b) Bangalore

c) Mumbai

d) Kolkata

Ans: c) Mumbai

10. First Indian Satellite name ?

a) Rohini

b) INSAT

c) Bhaskara

d )Aryabhata

Ans: d )Aryabhata. (named after indian astronomer and It was launched on 19 April 1975.)

11. Who is India’s First Formula one Racer ?

a) Narayan Karthikeyan

b) Karun Chandok

c) Vikramaditya singh

d) None of these

Ans: a) Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan.

12. Who is First Woman grandmaster in India ?

a) D Harika

b) Koneru Humpy

c) C Swapna

d) Charita Agarwal

Ans:  b) Koneru Humpy

13. Test tube baby born first in india in which year ?

a) 1977

b) 1984

c) 1978

d) 1981

Ans: c) 1978

14. Who is the first Viceroy to India ?

a) Lord Canning

b) Lord Mayo

c) Lord Reading

d) Lord Wavell

Ans: a) Lord Canning

15. Who is India’s First Home minister ?

a) Dr.B.R Ambedkar

b) John Mathai

c) Baldev singh

d) Sardar Vallabhai Patel

Ans: d) Sardar Vallabhai Patel

16. Who is First Indian Pilot ?

a) J R D Tata

b) Rajiv Gandhi

c) S K Sharma

d) Geet singh

Ans : a) J R D Tata

17. Who is the first Indian Prime minister did not face the Parliament ?

a) H D Dewegowda

b) Chandra sekhar

c) Charan Singh

d) V P Singh

Ans: c) Charan Singh [Charan singh served as prime minister from  July 1979 to January 1980.]

18. Who among the following indian is first Miss Universe title winner ?

a) Sushmita sen

b) Aishwarya rai

c) Diya mirza

d) Lara dutta

Ans: a) Sushmita sen [In 1994 Sushmita sen won Miss universe title]

19.Who among the following is the first person to resign from the central cabinet ?

a) Sardar vallabhai patel

b) Lal bahadur shastri

c) Shyama prasad Mukherji

d) John Mathai

Ans: c) Shyama prasad Mukherji   [he resigned from the cabinet on 9 April 1950]

20. First Indian to Receive Ramon Magsaysay award ?

a) Indira gandhi

b) C V Raman

c) Jawaharlal Nehru

d) Acharya Vinobha bhave

Ans: d) Acharya Vinobha bhave  [vinobha bhave recieved this award in 1958.he is also honoured with Bharat Ratna in 1983]

21. Who is the first person to recieve jnan Pith Award ?

a) Shankar Kurup

b) C Narayana Reddy

c) Uma Shankar Joshi

d) K Puttappa

Ans: a) Shankar Kurup    [He is most famous as Mahakavi G.he won jnan pith in 1965 for his collection of poems Odakkuzhai]

22. Who among the following Indian is First Tennis grand slam winner ?

a) Ramesh Krishnan

b) Mahesh Bhupathi

c) Leander paes

d) Vijay Amritraj

Ans: b) Mahesh Bhupathi

23. Who is the First indian Time magazine editor ?

a)Bobby Ghosh

b)G Kishore Ghosh

c)Keshv Swamy

d)Neeraj mishra

Ans: a)Bobby Ghosh

24. Who is the first Indian Oscar winner ?

a) Gulzar

b) Satyajit ray

c) Bhanu Athaiya

d) A R Rahman

Ans: c) Bhanu Athaiya [ She won Best Costume design award for Gandhi film in 1982 ]

25. Who is the first Indian Player honoured with Padma bhushan ?

a) Dhyan Chand

b) Lala Amarnath

c) C K Naidu

d) Milkha singh

Ans: c) C K Naidu

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