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1. Who was the first Governor of Bengal?

a) Lord Cornwallis

b) Robert Clive

c) Lord Wellesley

d) Warren Hastings

2. Who was the first Governor-General of Bengal?

a) Lord Cornwallis

b) William Bentinck

c) Warren Hastings

d) Lord Dalhousie

3. Who was the first Governor-General of India?

a) Lord William Bentinck

b) Lord Dalhousie

c) Lord Canning

d) Warren Hastings

4. Who was the first Viceroy of India?

a) Lord Curzon

b) Lord Mountbatten

c) Lord Lytton

d) Lord Canning

5. Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress?

a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

b) Badruddin Tyabji

c) Dadabhai Naoroji

d) W.C. Banerjee

6. Who was the first and last Indian Governor-General of Independent India?

a) C. Rajagopalachari

b) Lord Mountbatten

c) Vallabhbhai Patel

d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

7. Who was the first Indian to pass the Indian Civil Services (ICS) exam?

a) Dadabhai Naoroji

b) Satyendranath Tagore

c) Surendranath Banerjee

d) Lala Lajpat Rai

8. Who was the first Governor-General of India after independence?

a) Lord Mountbatten

b) C. Rajagopalachari

c) Jawaharlal Nehru

d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

9. Who was the first Indian cosmonaut to go into space?

a) Rakesh Sharma

b) Kalpana Chawla

c) Vikram Sarabhai

d) Sunita Williams

10. Who was the first temporary President of the Constituent Assembly?

a) Jawaharlal Nehru

b) B.R. Ambedkar

c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

d) Sachchidananda Sinha

11. Who was the first Commander-in-Chief of Free India?

a) General S.F. Manekshaw

b) General K.M. Cariappa

c) General Rajendrasinhji

d) Field Marshal Montgomery

12. Who was the first Indian Nobel Laureate?

a) Rabindranath Tagore

b) Har Gobind Khorana

c) C.V. Raman

d) Amartya Sen

13. Who was the first Indian judge of the International Court of Justice?

a) Dalveer Bhandari

b) B.N. Rau

c) R.S. Pathak

d) Nagendra Singh

14. Who was the first Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna Award?

a) B.R. Ambedkar

b) C.V. Raman

c) Jawaharlal Nehru

d) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

15. Who was the first Field Marshal of India?

a) General V.K. Singh

b) General Bipin Rawat

c) General K.M. Cariappa

d) General S.F. Manekshaw

16. Who was the first President of the Constituent Assembly?

a) Jawaharlal Nehru

b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

c) B.R. Ambedkar

d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

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

a) Bula Choudhury

b) Mihir Sen

c) Arati Saha

d) Virdhawal Khade

18. Who was the first Indian to receive the Jnanpith Award?

a) G. Shankar Kurup

b) Mahadevi Verma

c) R.K. Narayan

d) Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar

19. Who was the first Muslim President of India?

a) Mohammad Hidayatullah

b) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

c) Dr. Zakir Husain

d) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

20. Who was the first Indian to win the Palk Strait Ocean Swimming Contest?

a) Mihir Sen

b) Bula Choudhury

c) Baidyanath Nath

d) Arati Saha

21. Who was the first Commander-in-Chief of Free India?

a) General S.F. Manekshaw

b) Field Marshal Montgomery

c) General K.M. Cariappa

d) General Rajendrasinhji

22. Who was the first Indian Nobel Laureate?

a) Rabindranath Tagore

b) Har Gobind Khorana

c) Amartya Sen

d) C.V. Raman

23. Who was the first Indian judge of the International Court of Justice?

a) R.S. Pathak

b) B.N. Rau

c) Nagendra Singh

d) Dalveer Bhandari

24. Who was the first Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna Award?

a) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) B.R. Ambedkar

d) C.V. Raman

25. Who was the first Field Marshal of India?

a) General V.K. Singh

b) General S.F. Manekshaw

c) General K.M. Cariappa

d) General Bipin Rawat

26. Who was the first President of the Constituent Assembly?

a) Jawaharlal Nehru

b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

d) B.R. Ambedkar

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

a) Mihir Sen

b) Arati Saha

c) Virdhawal Khade

d) Bula Choudhury

28. Who was the first Indian to receive the Jnanpith Award?

a) R.K. Narayan

b) Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar

c) G. Shankar Kurup

d) Mahadevi Verma

29. Who was the first Muslim President of India?

a) Mohammad Hidayatullah

b) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

c) Dr. Zakir Husain

d) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

30. Who was the first Indian to win the Palk Strait Ocean Swimming Contest?

a) Arati Saha

b) Mihir Sen

c) Baidyanath Nath

d) Bula Choudhury

31. Who was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

a) Balram Jakhar

b) M.A. Ayyangar

c) Somnath Chatterjee

d) G.V. Mavalankar

32. Who was the first person to make printing press popular in India?

a) Charles Wilkins

b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

c) William Carey

d) James Augustus Hicky

33. Who was the first President of the Indian Republic?

a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

c) V.V. Giri

d) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

34. Who was the first Prime Minister of Independent India?

a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

c) Lal Bahadur Shastri

d) Jawaharlal Nehru

35. Who was the first Vice President of Independent India?

a) V.V. Giri

b) Zakir Husain

c) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

36. Who was the first Indian scientist to win a Nobel Prize?

a) Dr. Homi Bhabha

b) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

c) C.V. Raman

d) Har Gobind Khorana

37. Who was the first Chief of Army Staff of India?

a) General Bipin Rawat

b) General K.S. Thimayya

c) General Maharaja Rajendra Sinhji

d) General S.H.F.J. Manekshaw

38. Who was the first Chief of Naval Staff of India?

a) Admiral Sunil Lanba

b) Admiral Karambir Singh

c) Admiral R.D. Katari

d) Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda

39. Who was the first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of India?

a) Admiral Karambir Singh

b) General Manoj Mukund Naravane

c) General Bipin Rawat

d) Air Chief Marshal R.K.S. Bhadauria

40. Who was the first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra?

a) Major Somnath Sharma

b) Lance Naik Albert Ekka

c) Subedar Major Sanjay Kumar

d) Captain Vikram Batra

41. Who was the first Indian scientist to get a Nobel Prize in Physics?

a) C.V. Raman

b) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

c) Har Gobind Khorana

d) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

42. Who was the first Indian to get a Nobel Prize in Medicine?

a) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

b) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

c) Har Gobind Khorana

d) Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay

43. Who was the first Chinese pilgrim to visit India?

a) Fa-Hien

b) Xuanzang

c) Hiuen Tsang

d) I-Tsing

44. Who was the first scientist of Indian origin to win a Nobel Prize in Physics?

a) Har Gobind Khorana

b) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

c) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

d) C.V. Raman

45. Who was the first NSA (National Security Advisor) of India?

a) Ajit Doval

b) Brajesh Mishra

c) Shivshankar Menon

d) M.K. Narayanan

46. Who was the first Indian to win the Stalin Award?

a) Saifuddin Kitchlew

b) Jyoti Basu

c) P.C. Mahalanobis

d) Bhagat Singh

47. Who was the first Indian to win the Magsaysay Award?

a) M.S. Swaminathan

b) Vinoba Bhave

c) Kiran Bedi

d) Mother Teresa

48. Who was India's first minister to resign from the Union Cabinet?

a) V.V. Giri

b) Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

c) Lal Bahadur Shastri

d) C. Rajagopalachari

49. Who was India's first Election Commissioner?

a) T.N. Seshan

b) S.Y. Quraishi

c) V.S. Sampath

d) Sukumar Sen

50. Who was the first Muslim President of the Indian National Congress?

a) Badruddin Tyabji

b) Syed Mahmood

c) Abul Kalam Azad

d) Syed Ahmed Khan

51. Who was the first Chief Justice of India?

a) Ranjan Gogoi

b) Hiralal J. Kania

c) Y.V. Chandrachud

d) P.N. Bhagwati

52. Who was the first person to submit the proposal of Indian Independence in a Congress Session?

a) Dadabhai Naoroji

b) Motilal Nehru

c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

d) Maulana Hasrat Mohani

53. Who was the first Indian to climb Mt. Everest without oxygen?

a) Bachendri Pal

b) Santosh Yadav

c) Sherpa Phu Dorji

d) Tenzing Norgay

54. Who was the first foreign recipient of the Bharat Ratna?

a) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

b) Martin Luther King Jr.

c) Nelson Mandela

d) Mother Teresa

55. Who was the first Indian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics?

a) Amartya Sen

b) Raghuram Rajan

c) Jagdish Bhagwati

d) Manmohan Singh

56. Who was the first Indian pilot?

a) Rakesh Sharma

b) Subroto Mukerjee

c) Ramesh Babu

d) J.R.D. Tata

57. Who was the first Indian to reach Antarctica?

a) Dr. A.P. Subramaniam

b) Dr. Harsh Gupta

c) Dr. S.Z. Qasim

d) Lt. Ram Charan

58. Who was the first Deputy Prime Minister of India?

a) Morarji Desai

b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

c) Charan Singh

d) Jagjivan Ram

59. Who was the first Indian Prime Minister to resign from office?

a) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

b) Morarji Desai

c) Indira Gandhi

d) V.P. Singh

60. Who was the first President of India to die in office?

a) Dr. Zakir Husain

b) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

c) Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

d) V.V. Giri

61. Who was the first man to climb Mt. Everest twice?

a) Edmund Hillary

b) Tenzing Norgay

c) Nawang Gombu Sherpa

d) Reinhold Messner

62. Who was the first Indian to reach the South Pole?

a) Capt. M.S. Kohli

b) Rajendra Singh

c) Dr. Anil Kumar

d) Col. J.K. Bajaj

63. Who was the first American President to visit India?

a) George H.W. Bush

b) Dwight D. Eisenhower

c) Richard Nixon

d) John F. Kennedy

64. Who was the first British Prime Minister to visit India?

a) Winston Churchill

b) Harold Macmillan

c) Harold Wilson

d) Clement Attlee

65. Who was the first Indian author to get the Anderson Award?

a) Jhumpa Lahiri

b) Ruskin Bond

c) R.K. Narayan

d) Arundhati Roy

66. Who was the first Indian to win the World Billiards Trophy?

a) Geet Sethi

b) Wilson Jones

c) Michael Ferreira

d) Pankaj Advani

67. Who was the first Indian Space Tourist?

a) Sunita Williams

b) Santosh George

c) Kalpana Chawla

d) Rakesh Sharma

68. Who was the first Chief Justice of India born in independent India?

a) K.G. Balakrishnan

b) Justice A.S. Anand

c) Ranjan Gogoi

d) S.H. Kapadia

69. Who was the first Indian to win the Golden Globe Award?

a) Shekhar Kapur

b) A.R. Rahman

c) Priyanka Chopra

d) Satyajit Ray

70. Who was the first individual gold medalist at the Olympics from India?

a) Milkha Singh

b) Abhinav Bindra

c) Sushil Kumar

d) Rajyavardhan Rathore

71. Who was the first Indian to win a medal at the World Badminton Championship?

a) Kidambi Srikanth

b) Prakash Padukone

c) Saina Nehwal

d) P.V. Sindhu

72. Who was the first Commander-in-Chief of Free India? 2000

a) General K.M. Cariappa

b) Field Marshal Montgomery

c) General Rajendrasinhji

d) General S.F. Manekshaw

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