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Sl. First in India/World Answer No. 1 The first President of Indian Republic Dr. Rajendra Prasad 2 The first Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru 3 The first Vice-President of Indian Republic Dr. S. Radhakrishnan 4 The first Home Minister of India Vallabbhai Patel 5 The first Railway Minister of Indian John Mathai 6 The first President of Indian National Congress W.C. Banerjee 7 The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress Badruddin Tayyabji 8 The first Muslim President of India Dr. Zakir Hussain 9 The first Defence Minster of India Sardar Baldev Singh 10 The first Indian to win Nobel Prize Rabindranath Tagore 11 The first British Governor General of India Lord William Bentinck(1833-1835) 12 The first Indian Pilot J.R.D. Tata 13 The first lady to become Miss World Rita Faria 14 The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna Mrs Indira Gandhi 15 The first British Governor General of Bengal Lord Warren Hasting(1774-1885) 16 The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court Justice Hirala J. Kania 17 The first woman judge in Supreme Court Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi 18 The first woman to receive Nobel Prize Mother Teresa 19 The first British Viceroy of India Lord Canning 20 The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics Amartya Sen 21 The first woman Ambassador Miss C.B. Muthamma 22 The first woman to cross English Channel Aarti Saha 23 First Judge in International Court of Justice Dr. Nagender Singh 24 India's First University Nalanda University 25 The first Governor General of free India Lord Mountbatten 26 The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet Shyama Prasad Mukherjee 27 The first woman Governor of a state in free India Sarojini Naidu 28 The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award Ashapurna Devi 29 First Post Office Opened in India Kolkata(1727) 30 First Test tube baby of India Indira (Baby Harsha) 31 The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of C. Rajgopalachari free India 32 The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize Hargovind Khurana in Medicine 33 The first person to receive Magsaysay Award Acharya Vinoba Bhave 34 The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly Shanno Devi 35 The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India Razia Sultan 36 The first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service Satyendra Nath Tagore 37 The first person to receive Magsaysay Award Acharya Vinoba Bhave 38 The first woman Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 39 The first woman IPS officer Kiran Bedi 40 The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India M. Fathima Beevi
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www.playquiz2win.com 41 I dia’s first a i Spa e Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma 42 The first Chief Election Commissioner of India Sukumar Sen 43 The first woman Minister in a Government Rajkumari Amrit Kaur 44 The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh High Court) 45 The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without Morarji Desai completing the full term 46 The first person to get Param Vir Chakra Major Somnath Sharma 47 The first woman to climb Mount Everest Bachhendri Pal 48 The first woman Judge Anna Chandy 49 The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India of free General K. M. Cariappa India 50 The first Indian Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral R.D. Katari 51 The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice Santosh Yadav 52 The first woman President of Indian National Congress Annie Besant 53 The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Roze Millian Bathew Commission 54 The first I dia Me er of the Vi ero ’s e e utive Sir S.P.Sinha council 55 The first Indian Air Chief Marshal Air Marshall S. Mukherjee 56 The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force Harita Kaur Dayal 57 The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State Sucheta Kripalani 58 The first President of India who died while in office Dr. Zakhir Hussain 59 The first Education Minister Abdul Kalam Azad 60 The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar 61 The first woman Olympic medal Winner Karnam Malleswari in the year 2000 62 The first woman President of United Nations General Vijaya Laxmi Pandit Assembly 63 The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Charan Singh Parliament 64 The first Field Marshal of India Gen. Sam Manekshaw 65 The first Indian to receive Jnanpith award G. Sankara Kurup 66 The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics C.V.Raman 67 The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, C. V. Raman and S. Radhakrishnan 68 First Olympic Gold In Hockey in the year 1928 69 First Individual Olympic medal K.D. Jadhav in wrestling in the year 1952 70 First Formula-I race driver Narain Karthikeyan 71 India's first Chess Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand in 1988 72 First indian to win FIDE World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand 73 First Chief of Army Staff General Maharaja Rajendra Singhji 74 First Railway started in the year 1853 75 Postal stamp was first issued in the year 1825 76 First Woman Airline Pilot Durba Banerjee 77 First man to climb Mount Everest without oxygen Phu Dorjee www.playquiz2win.com
www.playquiz2win.com 78 First indigenously built submarine of India Shalki 79 First woman Chief Election Commissioner of India Rama Devi 80 First woman speaker of Lok Sabha Meira Kumar 81 First indian woman to win Miss Universe title Sushmita Sen 82 The first Bharat Ratna awardee to become the Dr. S. Radhakrishnan President of India 83 The first person to be awarded Bharat Ratna Lal Bahadur Shastri posthumously 84 The first scientist to be awarded Bharat Ratna C V Raman 85 The first and only industrialist to be awarded the Bharat J R D Tata Ratna 86 The first woman to be awarded the Bharat Ratna Indira Gandhi 87 The first Indian to receive the Booker prize Salman Rushdie 88 The first Indian woman to receive the Booker prize Arundhati Roy 89 The first woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Karnam Malleswari award 90 The first Indian scientist to be awarded the Nobel prize C V Raman 91 The first Indian to be awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan Morarji Desai 92 The first winner of Filmfare best actor award Dilip Kumar 93 The first winner of Filmfare best actress award Meena Kumari 94 The first Hindi film to win the National Film award Mirza Ghalib 95 The first recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru award for U Thant (1965) International Understanding 96 The first recipient of Outstanding Parliamentarian Chandrasekhar Azad award (1995) 97 The first Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaqat Ali 98 The first President of USA George Washington 99 The first President of Chinese Republic Sun Yat Sen 100 The first Prime Minister of England Robert Walpole 101 The first Secretary General of the United Nations Trygve Lie 102 The first man to reach North Pole Robert Peary (USA) 103 The first man to reach South Pole Ronald Amundsen 104 The first man to land on Moon Neil Armstrong 105 The first man in space Yuri Gagarin 106 The first man to scale Mount Everest Edmund Hillary 107 The first man to circumnavigate the World Magellan 108 The first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova 109 The first woman to scale Mount Everest Junko Tabei 110 The first man in space Yuri Gagarin 111 The first animal in space Laika 112 The first person to walk in space Alexie Leonov 113 The first woman to walk in space Svetlana Savitskaya 114 The first space tourist Denis Tito 115 The first woman space tourist Anousheh Ansari 116 The first Indian woman in space Kalpana Chawla 117 The first Indian woman to become Grandmaster Koneru Humpy
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