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  • 1. Who is the first Indian woman boxer to win an Olympic medal?

    (A) Saina Nehwal

    (B) Sakshi Malik

    (C) Mary Kom

    (D) PV Sindhu

    Answer: Mary Kom

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    At the 2012 Beijing Olympics in the 51 kg fly weight category, she won the Olympic medal in boxing.She is the first Indian woman boxer to win an Olympic medal in boxing.

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  • 2. Who was the first person to fly into space?

    (A) Yuri Gagarin

    (B) Buzz Aldrin

    (C) Neil Armstrong

    (D) Sally Ride

    Answer: Yuri Gagarin

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    Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation’s highest honour.

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  • 3. Who was the first Person to set foot on the Moon?

    (A) John Glenn

    (B) Neil Armstrong

    (C) Buzz Aldrin

    (D) Pete Conrad

    Answer: Neil Armstrong

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    Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War.

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  • 4. Who was the first Person to reach North Pole?

    (A) Matt Henson

    (B) Frederick Cook

    (C) Robert Edwin Peary

    (D) Wally Herbert

    Answer: Robert Edwin Peary

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  • 5. Who was the first Person to reach South Pole?

    (A) Ronald Amundsen

    (B) Robert Edwin Peary

    (C) Ferdinand Magellan

    (D) George Washington

    Answer: Ronald Amundsen

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  • 6. Who was the first person to break sound barrier in freefall?

    (A) Sultan Kösen

    (B) Peggy Whitson

    (C) Felix Baumgartner

    (D) Roger Bannister

    Answer: Felix Baumgartner

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    He is best known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 2012. Doing so, he set world records for skydiving an estimated 39 km (24 mi), reaching an estimated top speed of 1,357.64 km/h.He became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power relative to the surface on his descent.He broke skydiving records for exit altitude, vertical freefall distance without drogue, and vertical speed without drogue.

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  • 7. Who were the first men to climb Mt. Everest?

    (A) Nawang Gombu

    (B) Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary

    (C) Apa Sherpa

    (D) Phurba Tashi

    Answer: Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary

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  • 8. Who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe?

    (A) Ferdinand Magellan

    (B) Jacques Mahu

    (C) William Dampier

    (D) Harry Pidgeon

    Answer: Ferdinand Magellan

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    Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano.

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  • 9. Who was the first person to swim across the English Channel?

    (A) Thomas William Burgess

    (B) Gertrude Ederle

    (C) Matthew Webb

    (D) Henry Sullivan

    Answer: Matthew Webb

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    His first attempt ended in failure, but on 25 August 1875, he started from Admiralty Pier in Dover and made the crossing in 21 hours and 45 minutes, despite challenging tides (which delayed him for 5 hours) and a jellyfish sting.

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  • 10. Who were the first man to win Nobel Prize for Peace?

    (A) Ernesto Teodoro Moneta and Louis Renault

    (B) Élie Ducommun and Charles Albert Gobat

    (C) Jin F. Dunant and Frederic Peiry

    (D) Auguste Beernaert and Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant

    Answer: Jin F. Dunant and Frederic Peiry

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  • 11. Who was the first European to visit China?

    (A) Karl Lagerfeld

    (B) Prince Albert of Monaco

    (C) Marco Polo

    (D) Mikhail Gorbachev

    Answer: Marco Polo

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  • 12. Who was the first Chinese Traveller to India?

    (A) Fa-Hien

    (B) Hsuan-Tsang

    (C) Ibn Battuta

    (D) Al Beruni

    Answer: Fa-Hien

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  • 13. Who was the first secretary general of the United Nations?

    (A) Dag Hammarskjöld

    (B) Kurt Waldheim

    (C) Trygve Lie

    (D) António Guterres

    Answer: Trygve Lie

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  • 14. Who was the first President of U.S.A?

    (A) George Washington

    (B) Rutherford B. Hayes

    (C) John Adams

    (D) Thomas Jefferson

    Answer: George Washington

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  • 15. Who was the first Prime Minister of Britain?

    (A) Earl of Wilmington

    (B) Henry Pelham

    (C) Robert Walpole

    (D) Duke of Newcastle

    Answer: Robert Walpole

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  • 16. Who was the first Prime Minister of India?

    (A) Jawaharlal Nehru

    (B) Lal Bahadur Shastri

    (C) Morarji Desai

    (D) Gulzarilal Nanda

    Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

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  • 17. Who was the world’s first woman President?

    (A) Park Geun-hye

    (B) Isabel Martínez de Perón

    (C) Angela Merkel

    (D) Theresa May

    Answer: Isabel Martínez de Perón

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  • 18. Which country first made the constitution?

    (A) United States

    (B) United Kingdom

    (C) Canada

    (D) Israel

    Answer: United States

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  • 19. In which country the first printing of books started?

    (A) United States

    (B) China

    (C) United Kingdom

    (D) Soviet Union

    Answer: China

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  • 20. Which country first issue paper currency?

    (A) United States

    (B) China

    (C) United Kingdom

    (D) Israel

    Answer: China

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  • 21. Which country first won the Football world cup?

    (A) Argentina

    (B) Uruguay

    (C) United States

    (D) Yugoslavia

    Answer: Uruguay

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  • 22. Which country first launch satellite into space?

    (A) Soviet Union

    (B) United Kingdom

    (C) United States

    (D) China

    Answer: Soviet Union

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  • 23. What is the name of the first talkie movie in the world?

    (A) Alam Ara

    (B) The Story of the Kelly Gang

    (C) The Jazz Singer

    (D) Cupid Angling

    Answer: The Jazz Singer

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  • 24. What is the name of the first human heart transplant recipient?

    (A) Louis Washkansky

    (B) Alois Glogar

    (C) Richard Herrick

    (D) Isabelle Dinoire

    Answer: Louis Washkansky

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  • 25. What is the name of the first antibiotic drug?

    (A) Tetracyclines

    (B) Quinolones

    (C) Penicillin

    (D) Glycopeptides

    Answer: Penicillin

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  • 26. Who was the first Auditor General of India?

    (A) A. K. Chanda

    (B) A. K. Roy

    (C) V. Narahari Rao

    (D) S. Ranganathan

    Answer: V. Narahari Rao

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  • 27. Who was the first chief justice of supreme court ?

    (A) H J Kania

    (B) M. Patanjali Sastri

    (C) Bijan Kumar Mukherjea

    (D) Mehr Chand Mahajan

    Answer: H J Kania

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  • 28. Who is the first Chief Election Commissioner of India?

    (A) Kalyan Sundaram

    (B) SP Sen Verma

    (C) Sukumar Sen

    (D) Nagendra Singh

    Answer: Sukumar Sen

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  • 29. Who was the first Woman Chief Justice of High Court in India?

    (A) Gita Mittal

    (B) Leila Seth

    (C) Indira Banerjee

    (D) Nishita Nirmal Mhatre

    Answer: Leila Seth

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  • 30. Who was the first Finance Minister of India?

    (A) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

    (B) R. K. Shanmukham Chetty

    (C) Mr.Morarji Desai

    (D) C. D. Deshmukh

    Answer: R. K. Shanmukham Chetty

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    He was the First Finance Minister of Independent India, from 15th August 1947 to 1949, when Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister of India.He was from the Indian National Congress.

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  • 31. Who was the first Marshal of Indian Air Force?

    (A) HM King George VI

    (B) Eduardo Gomes

    (C) Sultan Azlan Shah

    (D) Arjan Singh

    Answer: Arjan Singh

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  • 32. Who was the first president of Indian Science Congress?

    (A) W. B. Bannermann

    (B) Ashutosh Mukherjee

    (C) Prafulla Chandra Roy

    (D) J. C. Ghosh

    Answer: Ashutosh Mukherjee

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  • 33. Who was the first woman doctor of India?

    (A) Kadambini Ganguly

    (B) Anadibai Joshi/Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi

    (C) Abala Bose

    (D) Kei Okami

    Answer: Anadibai Joshi/Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi

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  • 34. Who is the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games?

    (A) Vijender Singh

    (B) Abhinav Bindra

    (C) Karnam Malleswari

    (D) Saina Nehwal

    Answer: Abhinav Bindra

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    At the 2008 Beijing Olympics,he won gold in the Men’s 10 meter air rifle event becoming the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games.

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  • 35. Who is the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal?

    (A) Sakshi Malik

    (B) Mary Kom

    (C) Karnam Malleswari

    (D) PV Sindhu

    Answer: Karnam Malleswari

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    Karnam Malleswari is the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal. She is known as the ‘iron lady’ ,won the bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She retired after participating in the 2004 Athens Olympics.

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  • 36. Who was the India’s first Vice-President?

    (A) Gopal Swarup Pathak

    (B) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

    (C) Zakir Husain

    (D) Varahagiri Venkata Giri

    Answer: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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  • 37. Who was first awarded with Bharat Ratna award?

    (A) Lal Bahadur Shastri

    (B) Rajendra Prasad

    (C) Jawaharlal Nehru

    (D) C. Rajagopalachari

    Answer: C. Rajagopalachari

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  • 38. Who is the first chairman of the Finance Commission?

    (A) K. Santhanam

    (B) K. C. Neogy

    (C) A. K. Chanda

    (D) P. V. Rajamannar

    Answer: K. C. Neogy

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  • 39. Who was the first Civil Servant of India?

    (A) Romesh Dutt

    (B) Satyendranath Tagore

    (C) Behari Lal Gupta

    (D) Brajendranath De

    Answer: Satyendranath Tagore

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  • 40. What is the name of the first Indian Test-tube baby?

    (A) Durga (Kanupriya Agarwal)

    (B) Louise Brown

    (C) Harsha Chawda

    (D) Louise Joy Brown

    Answer: Durga (Kanupriya Agarwal)

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  • 41. Who is the first speaker of Loksabha?

    (A) M. A. Ayyangar

    (B) Sardar Hukam Singh

    (C) Jawaharlal Nehru

    (D) Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar

    Answer: Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar

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  • 42. Who is the first Indian to get the Jnanpeeth Award ?

    (A) Umashankar Joshi

    (B) G. Sankara Kurup

    (C) Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay

    (D) Ashapoorna Devi

    Answer: G. Sankara Kurup

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  • 43. Who was first Indian Reserve Bank Governor?

    (A) James Braid Taylor

    (B) Osborne Smith

    (C) Benegal Rama Rau

    (D) C. D. Deshmukh

    Answer: C. D. Deshmukh

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  • 44. Who is the first woman IPS officer in India?

    (A) Kiran Bedi

    (B) Archana Ramasundaram

    (C) Meera Borwankar

    (D) Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya

    Answer: Kiran Bedi

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  • 45. What is the name of the first Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship ?

    (A) INS Vikramaditya

    (B) INS Vikrant

    (C) INS Viraat

    (D) INS Vishal

    Answer: INS Vikrant

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  • 46. Who is the first woman musician of India to get the Bharat Ratna award?

    (A) Mother Teresa

    (B) Lata Mangeshkar

    (C) Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi/MS. Subbulakshmi

    (D) Aruna Asaf Ali

    Answer: Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi/MS. Subbulakshmi

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  • 47. Who is the first Indian author to get the Hans Christian Andersen Award?

    (A) Lois Lowry

    (B) Ruskin Bond

    (C) Martin Waddell

    (D) Alice Vieira

    Answer: Ruskin Bond

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  • 48. What is the name of the India’s first advanced forensic lab dedicated for crimes related to women?

    (A) Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad

    (B) Wildlife Forensic Laboratory

    (C) Forensic Science Laboratories, Madhya Pradesh

    (D) Sakhi Suraksha Advanced DNA Forensic Laboratory

    Answer: Sakhi Suraksha Advanced DNA Forensic Laboratory

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    It was laid in the campus of Central Forensic Science Lab (CFSL), Chandigarh. It is India’s first advanced forensic lab dedicated for crimes related to women for timely deliver justice.5 more such advanced forensic labs will come up in Mumbai, Chennai, Guwahati, Pune and Bhopal in the next 3 months bringing total minimum annual handling capacity of labs to 50000 cases. The labs in Chennai and Mumbai will be set up with funds from Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) while remaining 3 labs would be set up with funds by Ministry of Home Affairs.

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