Firsts in India Male: MCQ GK Questions with Answers

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1. Who was the first Governor of Bengal?

a) Lord Wellesley

b) Robert Clive

c) Warren Hastings

d) Lord Cornwallis

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

a) Lord Dalhousie

b) Warren Hastings

c) William Bentinck

d) Lord Cornwallis

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

a) Lord William Bentinck

b) Lord Dalhousie

c) Warren Hastings

d) Lord Canning

4. Who was the first Viceroy of India?

a) Lord Canning

b) Lord Curzon

c) Lord Lytton

d) Lord Mountbatten

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

a) Dadabhai Naoroji

b) W.C. Banerjee

c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

d) Badruddin Tyabji

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

a) C. Rajagopalachari

b) Vallabhbhai Patel

c) Lord Mountbatten

d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

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

a) Dadabhai Naoroji

b) Lala Lajpat Rai

c) Surendranath Banerjee

d) Satyendranath Tagore

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

a) Jawaharlal Nehru

b) C. Rajagopalachari

c) Lord Mountbatten

d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

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

a) Vikram Sarabhai

b) Kalpana Chawla

c) Rakesh Sharma

d) Sunita Williams

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

a) B.R. Ambedkar

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

d) Sachchidananda Sinha

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

a) Field Marshal Montgomery

b) General K.M. Cariappa

c) General S.F. Manekshaw

d) General Rajendrasinhji

12. Who was the first Indian Nobel Laureate?

a) C.V. Raman

b) Rabindranath Tagore

c) Amartya Sen

d) Har Gobind Khorana

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

a) Nagendra Singh

b) R.S. Pathak

c) B.N. Rau

d) Dalveer Bhandari

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

a) B.R. Ambedkar

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

d) C.V. Raman

15. Who was the first Field Marshal of India?

a) General Bipin Rawat

b) General K.M. Cariappa

c) General V.K. Singh

d) General S.F. Manekshaw

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

a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) B.R. Ambedkar

d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

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

a) Arati Saha

b) Virdhawal Khade

c) Mihir Sen

d) Bula Choudhury

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

a) G. Shankar Kurup

b) Mahadevi Verma

c) Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar

d) R.K. Narayan

19. Who was the first Muslim President of India?

a) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

b) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

c) Mohammad Hidayatullah

d) Dr. Zakir Husain

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

a) Mihir Sen

b) Baidyanath Nath

c) Bula Choudhury

d) Arati Saha

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

a) General K.M. Cariappa

b) General Rajendrasinhji

c) General S.F. Manekshaw

d) Field Marshal Montgomery

22. Who was the first Indian Nobel Laureate?

a) Amartya Sen

b) Har Gobind Khorana

c) C.V. Raman

d) Rabindranath Tagore

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

a) Dalveer Bhandari

b) B.N. Rau

c) Nagendra Singh

d) R.S. Pathak

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

a) Jawaharlal Nehru

b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

c) B.R. Ambedkar

d) C.V. Raman

25. Who was the first Field Marshal of India?

a) General V.K. Singh

b) General Bipin Rawat

c) General S.F. Manekshaw

d) General K.M. Cariappa

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

a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

b) B.R. Ambedkar

c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

d) Jawaharlal Nehru

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

a) Mihir Sen

b) Bula Choudhury

c) Arati Saha

d) Virdhawal Khade

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

a) Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar

b) G. Shankar Kurup

c) R.K. Narayan

d) Mahadevi Verma

29. Who was the first Muslim President of India?

a) Mohammad Hidayatullah

b) Dr. Zakir Husain

c) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

d) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

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

a) Bula Choudhury

b) Arati Saha

c) Baidyanath Nath

d) Mihir Sen

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

a) Balram Jakhar

b) G.V. Mavalankar

c) M.A. Ayyangar

d) Somnath Chatterjee

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

a) James Augustus Hicky

b) William Carey

c) Charles Wilkins

d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

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

a) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

b) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

c) V.V. Giri

d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

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

a) Jawaharlal Nehru

b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

d) Lal Bahadur Shastri

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

a) V.V. Giri

b) Zakir Husain

c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

d) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

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

a) Har Gobind Khorana

b) C.V. Raman

c) Dr. Homi Bhabha

d) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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

a) General Maharaja Rajendra Sinhji

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

c) General Bipin Rawat

d) General K.S. Thimayya

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) Air Chief Marshal R.K.S. Bhadauria

b) General Bipin Rawat

c) General Manoj Mukund Naravane

d) Admiral Karambir Singh

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

a) Lance Naik Albert Ekka

b) Captain Vikram Batra

c) Major Somnath Sharma

d) Subedar Major Sanjay Kumar

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

a) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

b) Har Gobind Khorana

c) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

d) C.V. Raman

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

a) Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay

b) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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

d) Har Gobind Khorana

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

a) Fa-Hien

b) Hiuen Tsang

c) Xuanzang

d) I-Tsing

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

a) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

b) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

c) C.V. Raman

d) Har Gobind Khorana

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

a) Brajesh Mishra

b) Shivshankar Menon

c) M.K. Narayanan

d) Ajit Doval

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

a) Bhagat Singh

b) Jyoti Basu

c) P.C. Mahalanobis

d) Saifuddin Kitchlew

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

a) Vinoba Bhave

b) M.S. Swaminathan

c) Mother Teresa

d) Kiran Bedi

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

a) V.V. Giri

b) C. Rajagopalachari

c) Lal Bahadur Shastri

d) Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

49. Who was India's first Election Commissioner?

a) V.S. Sampath

b) S.Y. Quraishi

c) Sukumar Sen

d) T.N. Seshan

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

a) Abul Kalam Azad

b) Badruddin Tyabji

c) Syed Ahmed Khan

d) Syed Mahmood

51. Who was the first Chief Justice of India?

a) Hiralal J. Kania

b) P.N. Bhagwati

c) Ranjan Gogoi

d) Y.V. Chandrachud

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) Tenzing Norgay

b) Bachendri Pal

c) Santosh Yadav

d) Sherpa Phu Dorji

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

a) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

b) Mother Teresa

c) Martin Luther King Jr.

d) Nelson Mandela

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

a) Manmohan Singh

b) Amartya Sen

c) Jagdish Bhagwati

d) Raghuram Rajan

56. Who was the first Indian pilot?

a) Subroto Mukerjee

b) Ramesh Babu

c) J.R.D. Tata

d) Rakesh Sharma

57. Who was the first Indian to reach Antarctica?

a) Dr. Harsh Gupta

b) Dr. A.P. Subramaniam

c) Lt. Ram Charan

d) Dr. S.Z. Qasim

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

a) Charan Singh

b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

c) Jagjivan Ram

d) Morarji Desai

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

a) Morarji Desai

b) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

c) Indira Gandhi

d) V.P. Singh

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

a) Dr. Zakir Husain

b) Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

c) V.V. Giri

d) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

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

a) Reinhold Messner

b) Edmund Hillary

c) Nawang Gombu Sherpa

d) Tenzing Norgay

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

a) Col. J.K. Bajaj

b) Dr. Anil Kumar

c) Rajendra Singh

d) Capt. M.S. Kohli

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

a) John F. Kennedy

b) George H.W. Bush

c) Dwight D. Eisenhower

d) Richard Nixon

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

a) Clement Attlee

b) Harold Macmillan

c) Harold Wilson

d) Winston Churchill

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

a) Ruskin Bond

b) Jhumpa Lahiri

c) R.K. Narayan

d) Arundhati Roy

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

a) Wilson Jones

b) Michael Ferreira

c) Pankaj Advani

d) Geet Sethi

67. Who was the first Indian Space Tourist?

a) Kalpana Chawla

b) Santosh George

c) Sunita Williams

d) Rakesh Sharma

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

a) Justice A.S. Anand

b) S.H. Kapadia

c) K.G. Balakrishnan

d) Ranjan Gogoi

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

a) A.R. Rahman

b) Shekhar Kapur

c) Priyanka Chopra

d) Satyajit Ray

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

a) Rajyavardhan Rathore

b) Abhinav Bindra

c) Milkha Singh

d) Sushil Kumar

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

a) Prakash Padukone

b) Kidambi Srikanth

c) Saina Nehwal

d) P.V. Sindhu

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

a) General S.F. Manekshaw

b) General K.M. Cariappa

c) Field Marshal Montgomery

d) General Rajendrasinhji

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