Firsts in India Male: MCQ GK Questions with Answers

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1. Who was the first Governor of Bengal?

a) Lord Cornwallis

b) Warren Hastings

c) Robert Clive

d) Lord Wellesley

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

a) Lord Dalhousie

b) Lord Cornwallis

c) Warren Hastings

d) William Bentinck

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 Lytton

c) Lord Canning

d) Lord Mountbatten

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

a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

b) Badruddin Tyabji

c) W.C. Banerjee

d) Dadabhai Naoroji

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) Surendranath Banerjee

b) Satyendranath Tagore

c) Dadabhai Naoroji

d) Lala Lajpat Rai

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

a) Jawaharlal Nehru

b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

c) Lord Mountbatten

d) C. Rajagopalachari

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

a) Sunita Williams

b) Vikram Sarabhai

c) Kalpana Chawla

d) Rakesh Sharma

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

a) B.R. Ambedkar

b) Sachchidananda Sinha

c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

d) Jawaharlal Nehru

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

a) General K.M. Cariappa

b) General S.F. Manekshaw

c) Field Marshal Montgomery

d) General Rajendrasinhji

12. Who was the first Indian Nobel Laureate?

a) Rabindranath Tagore

b) C.V. Raman

c) Amartya Sen

d) Har Gobind Khorana

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

a) B.N. Rau

b) R.S. Pathak

c) Nagendra Singh

d) Dalveer Bhandari

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

a) Jawaharlal Nehru

b) B.R. Ambedkar

c) C.V. Raman

d) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

15. Who was the first Field Marshal of India?

a) General S.F. Manekshaw

b) General Bipin Rawat

c) General V.K. Singh

d) General K.M. Cariappa

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

a) Jawaharlal Nehru

b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

d) B.R. Ambedkar

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

a) Mihir Sen

b) Arati Saha

c) Bula Choudhury

d) Virdhawal Khade

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

a) R.K. Narayan

b) Mahadevi Verma

c) Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar

d) G. Shankar Kurup

19. Who was the first Muslim President of India?

a) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

b) Dr. Zakir Husain

c) Mohammad Hidayatullah

d) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

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

a) Mihir Sen

b) Arati Saha

c) Bula Choudhury

d) Baidyanath Nath

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

a) General K.M. Cariappa

b) General S.F. Manekshaw

c) General Rajendrasinhji

d) Field Marshal Montgomery

22. Who was the first Indian Nobel Laureate?

a) C.V. Raman

b) Rabindranath Tagore

c) Amartya Sen

d) Har Gobind Khorana

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

a) R.S. Pathak

b) Dalveer Bhandari

c) B.N. Rau

d) Nagendra Singh

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

a) C.V. Raman

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) B.R. Ambedkar

d) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

25. Who was the first Field Marshal of India?

a) General V.K. Singh

b) General K.M. Cariappa

c) General Bipin Rawat

d) General S.F. Manekshaw

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

a) B.R. Ambedkar

b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

c) Jawaharlal Nehru

d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

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

a) Bula Choudhury

b) Mihir Sen

c) Arati Saha

d) Virdhawal Khade

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

a) Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar

b) Mahadevi Verma

c) G. Shankar Kurup

d) R.K. Narayan

29. Who was the first Muslim President of India?

a) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

b) Mohammad Hidayatullah

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) Mihir Sen

b) Baidyanath Nath

c) Bula Choudhury

d) Arati Saha

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

a) Balram Jakhar

b) Somnath Chatterjee

c) M.A. Ayyangar

d) G.V. Mavalankar

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

a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

b) Charles Wilkins

c) James Augustus Hicky

d) William Carey

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

a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

b) V.V. Giri

c) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

d) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

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

a) Lal Bahadur Shastri

b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

d) Jawaharlal Nehru

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

a) Zakir Husain

b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

d) V.V. Giri

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 Maharaja Rajendra Sinhji

b) General K.S. Thimayya

c) General Bipin Rawat

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

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

a) Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda

b) Admiral Karambir Singh

c) Admiral R.D. Katari

d) Admiral Sunil Lanba

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

a) General Bipin Rawat

b) Admiral Karambir Singh

c) General Manoj Mukund Naravane

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

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

a) Captain Vikram Batra

b) Lance Naik Albert Ekka

c) Subedar Major Sanjay Kumar

d) Major Somnath Sharma

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

a) Har Gobind Khorana

b) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

c) C.V. Raman

d) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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

a) Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay

b) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

c) Har Gobind Khorana

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

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

a) I-Tsing

b) Hiuen Tsang

c) Fa-Hien

d) Xuanzang

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

a) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

b) C.V. Raman

c) Har Gobind Khorana

d) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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

a) M.K. Narayanan

b) Brajesh Mishra

c) Shivshankar Menon

d) Ajit Doval

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

a) P.C. Mahalanobis

b) Bhagat Singh

c) Jyoti Basu

d) Saifuddin Kitchlew

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

a) Vinoba Bhave

b) Kiran Bedi

c) M.S. Swaminathan

d) Mother Teresa

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

a) Lal Bahadur Shastri

b) Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

c) V.V. Giri

d) C. Rajagopalachari

49. Who was India's first Election Commissioner?

a) T.N. Seshan

b) S.Y. Quraishi

c) Sukumar Sen

d) V.S. Sampath

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

a) Abul Kalam Azad

b) Syed Ahmed Khan

c) Badruddin Tyabji

d) Syed Mahmood

51. Who was the first Chief Justice of India?

a) Y.V. Chandrachud

b) Ranjan Gogoi

c) Hiralal J. Kania

d) P.N. Bhagwati

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

a) Motilal Nehru

b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

c) Maulana Hasrat Mohani

d) Dadabhai Naoroji

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

a) Santosh Yadav

b) Tenzing Norgay

c) Sherpa Phu Dorji

d) Bachendri Pal

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

a) Nelson Mandela

b) Mother Teresa

c) Martin Luther King Jr.

d) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

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

a) Manmohan Singh

b) Amartya Sen

c) Raghuram Rajan

d) Jagdish Bhagwati

56. Who was the first Indian pilot?

a) Subroto Mukerjee

b) J.R.D. Tata

c) Ramesh Babu

d) Rakesh Sharma

57. Who was the first Indian to reach Antarctica?

a) Lt. Ram Charan

b) Dr. Harsh Gupta

c) Dr. S.Z. Qasim

d) Dr. A.P. Subramaniam

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

a) Jagjivan Ram

b) Morarji Desai

c) Charan Singh

d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

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

a) Indira Gandhi

b) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

c) Morarji Desai

d) V.P. Singh

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

a) V.V. Giri

b) Dr. Zakir Husain

c) Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

d) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

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

a) Reinhold Messner

b) Nawang Gombu Sherpa

c) Tenzing Norgay

d) Edmund Hillary

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) Richard Nixon

b) George H.W. Bush

c) John F. Kennedy

d) Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

a) Winston Churchill

b) Clement Attlee

c) Harold Wilson

d) Harold Macmillan

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

a) Jhumpa Lahiri

b) R.K. Narayan

c) Ruskin Bond

d) Arundhati Roy

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

a) Wilson Jones

b) Michael Ferreira

c) Geet Sethi

d) Pankaj Advani

67. Who was the first Indian Space Tourist?

a) Sunita Williams

b) Rakesh Sharma

c) Kalpana Chawla

d) Santosh George

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) Priyanka Chopra

b) Satyajit Ray

c) A.R. Rahman

d) Shekhar Kapur

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

a) Sushil Kumar

b) Milkha Singh

c) Rajyavardhan Rathore

d) Abhinav Bindra

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

a) Prakash Padukone

b) P.V. Sindhu

c) Saina Nehwal

d) Kidambi Srikanth

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

a) General K.M. Cariappa

b) General S.F. Manekshaw

c) General Rajendrasinhji

d) Field Marshal Montgomery

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