General Knowledge Questions and Answers First in India

 

1. British Governor General of Bengal -
  
Warren Hastings

2. Governor General of Independent India –
  
Lord Mountbatten

3. Commander-in-chief of Free India General –
  
Roy Bucher

4. Cosmonaut –
  
Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma

5. Emperor of Moghul Dynasty in India –
  
Babar

6. Field Marshal –
  
S. H. F. J. Manekshaw

7. Indian Governor General of Indian Union –
  
C. Rajagopalachari

8. Indian I.C.S. Officer –
  
Satyendra Nath Tagore

9. Indian Member of Viceroy’s Executive Council –
  
Sri S.P. Sinha

10. Indian to swim across English Channel –
  
Mihir Sen

11. Indian woman to swim across-English Channel –
  
Miss Arati Saha

12. Man to climb Mount Everest –
  
Tenzing Norgay

13. Man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen –
  
Phu Dorjee

14. Man to climb Mount Everest twice –
  
Nwang Gombu

15. Nobel Prize winner –
  
Rabindra Nath Tagore

16. President of Indian National Congress –
  
W. C. Banerjee

17. President of Indian Republic -
  
Dr. Rajendra Prasad

18. Talkie Film –
  
Alam Ara (1931)

19. Test Tube Baby (Documented) –
  
Indira

20. Viceroy of India –
  
Lord Canning

21. Woman Minister of Indian Union –
  
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

22. Woman Chief Minister of State –
  
Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani

23. Woman Governor –
  
Mrs. Sarojini Naidu

24. Woman President of Indian National Congress –
  
Dr. Annie Besant

25. Woman Prime Minister –
  
Mrs. Indira Gandhi

26. Woman Speaker of a State Assembly –
  
Mrs. Shanno Devi

27. Prime Minister of India –
  
Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

28. Muslim President of Indian Union –
  
Dr. Zakir Hussain

29. Speaker of Lok Sabha –
  
G. V. Mavlankar

30. Woman to climb mount Everest –
  
Bachhendri Pal

31. Woman Judge in Supreme Court –
  
Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi

32. Woman Chief Justice of a High Court –
  
Smt. Leela Seth

33. Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen) –
  
Kalpana Chawla

34. The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics -
  
Karnam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000)

35. The First Indian World Chess Champion –
  
Vishwanathan Anand

36. India’s first paperless Newspaper –
  
The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001)

37. India’s First woman Merchant Navy Officer –
  
Sonali Banerjee

38. The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha –
  
G. M. C. Balyogi

39. The first Vice-President of India to die in harness –
  
Krishna Kant

40. The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century –
  
Mithali Raj (August 2002 playing against  England)

41. The first woman Air Vice-Marshal –
  
P. Bandopadhyaya

42. The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police
Advisor –
  
Ms. Kiran Bedi

43. The first astronaut of Indian origin to perish aboard U.S. space shuttle in
a tragic accident –
  
Dr. Kalpana Chawla (Columbia space shuttle, Feb. I, 2003)

44. The first woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of
India-
  
K.J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003)

45. The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament –
  
Sania Mirza (2003)

46. The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship –
  
Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003)

47. The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD –
  
Mrs. Ranjana Kumar

48. The highest individual test scorer of India –
  
Virendra Sehwag ( 319 runs against Sauth  africa)

49. The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times-
  
Rahul Dravid

50. The first Orissa woman to top I.A.S. –
  
Smt. Roopa Misra (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003)

51. The first Sikh Prime Minister of India –
  
Dr. Manmohan Singh

52. The first woman Director General of Police of a State –
  
Kanchan C. Bhattacharya (DGP Uttaranchal)

53. The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief –
  
MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police)

54. The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army –
  
Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune)

55. The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming –
  
Bula Chaudhury

56. The first woman to become Indian Air Force’s first woman Air Marshal –
  
Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay

57. The first youngest MP, at the age of 25 years –
  
Dharmendra Yadav (Mainpuri : Samajwadi Party MP)

58. India’s first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title –
  
Sania Mirza (Feb. 2005, Hyderabad)

59. The first Indian to set a world record of ever having reached the highest
of heights yet in a hot balloon –
  
Vijaypath Singhania (Nov. 26, 2005. 69852 ft.)

60. The first wonder child of Orissa only about 4 years and a half of age
completes a race of 65 km. -
  
Budhia (May 2006)

61. The first woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro –
  
(Chennai Metro Police) Letika Saran