Competition Exams

Here are 20 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) on "Firsts in India" for competitive exams:

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1. Who was the first President of India?

a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
c) Jawaharlal Nehru
d) B.R. Ambedkar

2. Who was the first Prime Minister of India?

a) Lal Bahadur Shastri
b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
c) Jawaharlal Nehru
d) Indira Gandhi

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

a) C.V. Raman
b) Rabindranath Tagore
c) Mother Teresa
d) Hargobind Khorana

4. Who was the first Indian woman to go to space?

a) Kalpana Chawla
b) Sunita Williams
c) Rakesh Sharma
d) Indira Gandhi

5. Who was the first Indian to travel in space?

a) Rakesh Sharma
b) Kalpana Chawla
c) Sunita Williams
d) Vikram Sarabhai

6. Who was the first woman Prime Minister of India?

a) Indira Gandhi
b) Pratibha Patil
c) Sarojini Naidu
d) Sushma Swaraj

7. Who was the first Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna?

a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
c) C. Rajagopalachari
d) Jawaharlal Nehru

8. Who was the first Indian to receive an Oscar Award?

a) Bhanu Athaiya
b) Satyajit Ray
c) A.R. Rahman
d) Resul Pookutty

9. Who was the first Chief Justice of India?

a) M. Patanjali Sastri
b) H.J. Kania
c) P.N. Bhagwati
d) R.C. Lahoti

10. Who was the first woman Governor of an Indian state?

a) Sarojini Naidu
b) Indira Gandhi
c) Pratibha Patil
d) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

11. Who was the first Indian to climb Mount Everest?

a) Tenzing Norgay
b) Bachendri Pal
c) Edmund Hillary
d) Avtar Singh Cheema

12. Who was the first woman to climb Mount Everest?

a) Santosh Yadav
b) Arunima Sinha
c) Bachendri Pal
d) Kalpana Chawla

13. Who was the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal?

a) Saina Nehwal
b) Karnam Malleswari
c) P.V. Sindhu
d) Mary Kom

14. Who was the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold medal?

a) Abhinav Bindra
b) Milkha Singh
c) P.T. Usha
d) Leander Paes

15. Who was the first Indian to win the Miss World title?

a) Reita Faria
b) Aishwarya Rai
c) Sushmita Sen
d) Priyanka Chopra

16. Who was the first Indian woman to become a pilot?

a) Durba Banerjee
b) Sarla Thakral
c) Harita Kaur Deol
d) Kalpana Chawla

17. Who was the first Indian to receive a Grammy Award?

a) Zakir Hussain
b) Ravi Shankar
c) A.R. Rahman
d) Ustad Bismillah Khan

18. Who was the first Indian woman IPS officer?

a) Kiran Bedi
b) Ritu Karidhal
c) Arundhati Bhattacharya
d) Indira Nooyi

19. Who was the first Indian cricketer to score a double century in ODIs?

a) Virat Kohli
b) Sachin Tendulkar
c) Rohit Sharma
d) M.S. Dhoni

20. Who was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics?

a) Homi Bhabha
b) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
c) C.V. Raman
d) Vikram Sarabhai

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