India and World General Knowledge

1. Who was the first Governor General of the independent India?

• (a) Lord Mountbatten
• (b) Jawaharlal Nehru
• (c) Sardar Patel
• (d) C Rajagopalachari

Answer: (a) Lord Mountbatten

2. Who was the first Home Minister of India?

• (a) Abul Kalam Azad
• (b) Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
• (c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• (d) Chaudhary Devi Lal

Answer: (c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

3. In 1906, who was the first Indian to use the word ‘Swaraj’?

• (a) Motilal Nehru
• (b) BG Tilak
• (c) Mahatma Gandhi
• (d) Dadabhai Naoroji

Answer: (d) Dadabhai Naoroji

4. Who was the first Prime Minister of India to visit Siachin?

• (a) Rajeev Gandhi
• (b) Indra Kumar Gujaral
• (c) Manmohan Singh
• (d) None of the above

Answer: (c) Manmohan Singh

5. Who was the first Field Marshal of India?

• (a) SHFJ Manekshaw
• (b) JN Chaudhary
• (c) KS Thimayya
• (d) OP Malhotra

Answer: (a) SHFJ Manekshaw

6. Who was the first Indian to be elected as a General Secretary of Commonwealth?

• (a) Krishnamurti
• (b) Kamlesh Sharma
• (c) Rakesh Sharma
• (d) Gopalachari

Answer: (b) Kamlesh Sharma

7. Who among the following has been appointed as India’s first Chief of Defence Staff?

• (a) KM Cariappa
• (b) Bipin Rawat
• (c) Dalbir Singh Suhag
• (d) Manoj Mukund Naravane

Answer: (b) Bipin Rawat

8. Name the first former Chief Justice who has been appointed as the Governor of the state?

• (a) TS Thakur
• (b) Ranjan Gogoi
• (c) P Sathasivam
• (d) HL Dattu

Answer: (c) P Sathasivam

9. Which former justice of Supreme Court has been appointed as the first Lokpal of India?

• (a) K Subba Rao
• (b) Pinaki Chandra Ghosh
• (c) AM Lodha
• (d) Deepak Mishra

Answer: (b) Pinaki Chandra Ghosh

10. Who was India’s first Commander-in-Chief?

• (a) General KS Thimayya
• (b) General KM Cariappa
• (c) SHFJ Manekshaw
• (d) None of the above

Answer: (b) General KM Cariappa

11. Who is India’s first woman President?

• (a) Najma Heptulla
• (b) Sheila Dikshit
• (c) Vasundhara Raje
• (d) Pratibha Patil

Answer: (d) Pratibha Patil

12. Who is India’s first woman IPS officer?

• (a) Sarojini Naidu
• (b) Kiran Bedi
• (c) Bachendri Pal
• (d) Indira Gandhi

Answer: (b) Kiran Bedi

13. Who was the first Director General of Police in Puducherry?

• (a) Sundari Nanda
• (b) Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
• (c) Aswathi Tang
• (d) Kiran Bedi

Answer: (a) Sundari Nanda

14. The first woman Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh was?

• (a) Sarojini Naidu
• (b) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
• (c) Sucheta Kripalani
• (d) Jayalalitha

Answer: (c) Sucheta Kripalani

15. Name the woman who was the first woman Judge of Delhi High Court?

• (a) Sujata Manohar
• (b) Anna Chandy
• (c) Leila Seth
• (d) Rama Paul

Answer: (c) Leila Seth

16. Who was the first Indian woman to be elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly?

• (a) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
• (b) Nargis Dutt
• (c) Sucheta Kripalani
• (d) Sarojini Naidu

Answer: (a) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

17. Who was the first woman to reach Mount Everest twice?

• (a) Santosh Yadav
• (b) Suma Shirur
• (c) Suraj Lata Devi
• (d) Jyoti Randhawa

Answer: (a) Santosh Yadav

18. Among the following, who was the first woman to cross seven important seas by swimming?

• (a) Chandni
• (b) Bula Choudhury
• (c) Mrudula Rajeev
• (d) Priya Shawnbhag

Answer: (b) Bula Choudhury

19. Who is the first Indian woman to get a ‘No Caste-No Religion’ certificate?

• (a) Sneha
• (b) Arunima
• (c) Hemlata
• (d) Shehnaz

Answer: (a) Sneha

20. Match the following:

List I      List II

A. Nirmala Sitharaman    1. First Indian Woman Flight Engineer

B. Vrinda Rathi               2. First female national umpire to officiate in the T20 contest

C. Nirmala Sitharaman    3. India's First Woman Defence Minister

D. Hina Jaiswal               4. India's First Full-time Woman Finance Minister

Answer: (a) 4, 2, 3, 1