First In India-part (6)

PART 6

GK - Quiz Questions with Answers

 The first Indian to win Nobel Prize was?— ANSRabindra Nath Tagore

Which Indian Scientist has had the distinction of receiving not only the Nobel Prize, but also Bharat Ratna ?ANS     Dr. C. V. Raman

With what game is the name of Cara Black associated ?
Lawn Tennis

India successfully launched its first moon mission Chandrayaan-1 ?
22nd Oct., 2008

Who has been appointed the first woman Prime Minister of Tobago ?
Kamla Prasad Bissessar

The famous Akshardham Temple is situated in the city of—
Gandhi Nagar

The Nobel Laureate who is fighting to liberate the people of Myanmar is—
Aung San Suukyi

"India House" is located in—
London

Whose teachings inspired the French Revolution ?
Rousseau

D-Day is the day when—
Allied troops landed in Normandy

The first airline to allow flyers to surf the net was—
Singapore Airlines

World Computer Literacy Day is celebrated on—
2nd December

Fabianism is closely related to—
Democratic Socialism

The Bandung Conference was a major milestone in the history of—
The Non-Aligned Movement

Who said, " Man is a Social Animal" ?
Aristotle

'Red Revolution' in China took place in—
1949

Who was ruling over Pakistan at the time when Bangladesh became independent?
Yahya Khan

The first unified theatre commanded by the Indian Defence Forces has been set at—
Andaman Nicobar Islands

‘Daughters of Shame’ is a book written by—
Jasvinder Sanghera

First In India -Part(5)

PART 5

First Women

• The first woman Air Vice Marshal :P. Bandopadhyaya
• Supreme Court judge: Kumari Fathima Beevi
• High Court Judge: Anna Chandy
• Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly :
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit,  1953
• Airline Pilot: Durba Banerjee
• Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultan (1205–1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi)
• Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966
• Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health
• Chief Minister of a State: Sucheta Kripalani, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, 1963–   1967
• Governor: Sarojini Naidu, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–1949
• Women Governor of West Bengal: Padmaja Naidu, 1956–1967.
• Central Minister (in pre-independent India): Vijayalakshmi Pandit, minister of  local self-government and public health, 1937
• Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
• Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant
• President: Pratibha Patil, 2007
• IPS Officer: Kiran Bedi
• Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu
• The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal, 1984
• Chess Grandmaster: Koneru Humpy, 2002. She was also the youngest woman in the world to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.
• To win 1st round match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open
• To reach 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Grand Slam event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.
• Grand Slam junior title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova)  in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.
• State Finance Minister: Dr. Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab: October 2010
• Paris Cycling Event: Divya Tate(44): August 2011
• The first Indian woman pilot: Harita Kaur Deol becomes the first Indian woman pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF), on a solo flight in 1994.
• To Cross Gobi Desert: Sucheta Kadethankar(33):2011
• First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, popularly known as P. T. Usha
• first woman IAS officer: Anna Rajan George(b1927)Kerela qualified in 1950 sub-divisional officer in Tamil Nadu 1951
• First and youngest Indian female Ultramarathoner (23yrs) to run a 100 Mile Race(Himalayas) Priya Darshini (October 2007) 

Transport

·  First (Metro) rail to become Zone of Indian Railways: Kolkata Metro

·  First Passenger Train: between Mumbai and Thane on 16 April 1853

·  First suburban railway line: Mumbai Suburban Railway in 1857

·  First Motorcar: in 1897, Mr. Forster of Crompton Greaves

·  First Motorcar in regular use: Francis Spring, Chennai in 1901.

·  First woman to drive a car in India: Suzanne RD Tata 1905

·  First expressway: Mumbai - Pune Expressway in 2000

·  First airplane in India: Maharaja of Patiala, 1910

First In India-part(4)

PART 4

Olympics

• Individual medal: Bronze by K. D. Jadhav for Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
• Medal in Tennis: Leander Paes at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
• Individual medal by a woman: Bronze by Karnam Malleswari for weightlifting 54 kg class, at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sydney.
• Individual Gold medal: Abhinav Bindra in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
• Individual Silver medal (Independent India): Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in the Men's Double Trap event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
• Medal in Boxing: Vijender Kumar in the Beijing Olympics 2008.
• Medal in Badminton: Saina Nehwal, winning a Bronze in the London Olympics 2012

Chess

• Chess Grandmaster : Male - Vishwanathan Anand, 1988.
• Female - Koneru Humpy - 2002 - She was also the youngest woman to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.(Hou Yifan of China is the youngest woman to become a grandmaster at 14years and 6 months.)

Tennis

• Grand Slam title: Mahesh Bhupathi (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open.

• Woman to win a match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open

• Woman to reach 4th round (highest as of 2009) of a Grand Slam singles event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.

• Woman to win a Grand Slam title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 2009 Australian Open.

• Grand Slam junior title: Ramanathan Krishnan in the Singles category of the 1954 Wimbledon Championship.

• Grand Slam junior title by a woman: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.

• Yuki Bhambri became the first Indian to win the Singles in the Junior Australian Open, when he defeated the Greek Alexandros-Ferdinandos Georgoudas in the final 6–3, 6–1 in the Finals in 2009.

     Cricket

• First Test Victory : Against England At Madras

• Captain in Tests: C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England.

• ODI captain: Ajit Wadekar.

• Cricketer to score a century in a Test match : Lala Amarnath, 118 against England in December 1933 at Bombay Gymkhana grounds.

• Cricketer to score a double century in a Test match : Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56

First In India-part(3)

PART 3

Defence (in the Republic of India)

• Commander-in-Chief of Free India : General Sir Roy Bucher
• Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India : General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949
• Chief of Air Staff : Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst
• Indian Chief of Staff : General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1947
• Commander-in-Chief, IAF : Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, 1954
• Chief of Naval Staff : Vice Admiral R D Katari
• Cosmonaut : Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma, 1984
• Field Marshal : Sam Manekshaw, 1973
• First Parsi Army Chief : Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
• First Parsi Navy Chief : Admiral J L Cursetji
• First Parsi Air Force Chief : Air Marshal Aspy Engineer
• First Christian Army Chief : General Sunith Francis Rodrigues
• First Christian Navy Chief : Admiral Ronald Lynsdale Pereira
• First Christian Air Force Chief : Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne
• First Sikh Army Chief : General Joginder Jaswant Singh
• First Sikh Air Force Chief : Air Marshal Arjan Singh
• First Muslim Air Force Chief : Air Marshal Idris Hasan Latif
• First female officer to be court martialled: Anjali Gupta
• First female jawan in the Army : Sapper Shanti Tigga Economy
• First power in India with Soviet Collaboration : Neyveli Lignite Corporation in 1962.
• First central PSU to be privatized : Modern Food Industries in January 2000

Exploration

   

• Person to reach the South Pole : Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
• Woman to scale Mount Everest : Bachendri Pal on 23 May 1984. She was the 5th woman in the world to scale the peak.
• Woman to reach South Pole : Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu
• Person to reach the North Pole : Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar
• Person to have walked across Gobi desert : Sucheta Kadethankar

Film, TV and entertainment

• First Film to be exhibited in India on 7 July 1896, with the Lumiere Brothers' 
• First silent film to be made in India : Raja Harishchandra, 1913 by Dadasaheb Phalke.
• Bengali film maker:Hiralal Sen
• First Bengali talkie  : Dena Paona (1931)
• Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Devika Rani (1969)
• First Government award for films :Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards(1937)
• First Punjabi film made in the city :Kolkata
• First Indian filmmaker to get Bharat Ratna :Satyajit Ray (1992)

First In India-part (2)

PART 2

Architecture

• First Islamic (tomb) in India: Sultan Ghari  ,built in 1231 CE for Prince Nasir ud din Mahmud, eldest son of Iltumish.
• First true dome: Alai Darwaza, Qutb complex, Delhi, built in 1311 CE, by first Khilji Sultan of Delhi, Ala-ud-din Khilji.
• First true arch : Balban's tomb, Mohali Archeological Park, Delhi, built c. 1287 CE, by Ghiyas ud din Balban of Mamluk dynasty.
• First garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent, also the first with Persian double-dome : Humayun's Tomb, Delhi, built 1562-1571 CE.
• First Mosque in India : Cheraman Juma Masjid Kodungallur (Kerala), built 629-630 A.D by Malik ibn Deenar, an Arab trader on the order of Chera ruler Cheraman Perumal (Tajjudin after conversion to Islam)

Awards and Titles

•     Miss World : Reita Faria in 1966
•     Miss Asia Pacific : Zeenat Aman in 1970
•     Miss Universe : Sushmita Sen in 1994
•     Miss Earth : Nicole Faria in 2010
•     Miss Asia Pacific World : Himangini Singh Yadu in 2012
•     World Miss University : Priyadarshini Pradhan in 1989
•     Manhunt International : Rajeev Singh in 2001
•     Oscar for Lifetime Achievement - Satyajit Ray
•     Nishan-e-Pakistan : Morarji Desai, 1990

Nobel Prize

• Nobel Prize winner : Rabindranath Tagore in Literature, 1913. He was also the first Asian to win the prize.
• Nobel Prize in Physics : C. V. Raman in 1930.
• Nobel Prize in Medicine : Har Gobind Khorana in 1968. (US citizen of Indian origin )
• Nobel Peace Prize : Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 1979 (Indian citizen of Albanian origin)
• Nobel Prize in Economics : Amartya Sen in 1998
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry : Venkatraman Ramakrishnan in 2009 (UK citizen of Indian origin)

First In India -part(1)

    PART1:

     First In India

•  President of the Indian National Congress: Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, 1885
• President of the Indian National Congress of independent India: Acharya Kripalani,  till Nov 1947
• President: Rajendra Prasad (1950–1962)
• First Woman President: Pratibha Patil (2007–2012)
• First Bengali President: Pranab Mukherjee (Incumbent)
• First President of India from West Bengal: Pranab Mukherjee (Incumbent)
• The first Chief Election Commissioner: Sukumar Sen
• Industries and Supplies Minister: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
• The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
• Vice-President: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Prime Minister: Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–1964). India held its first constitutional elections in 1952 after which he was re-elected.
• Deputy Prime Minister: Vallabhbhai Patel (1947–1950)
• Law Minister of India: B. R. Ambedkar
• The leader of Opposition: A. K. Gopalan
• Prime Minister to be voted out of office: Indira Gandhi (1977), when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata Party
• Non-Congress government: Janata Party, with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister      (1977–1980)
• Non-Congress State government with Majority by a single party: E. M. S. Namboodiripad of CPI, Kerala 1957
• Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
• Person outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime Minister for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
• Prime Minister from South India: P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991
• Women Railway Minister of India: Mamata Banerjee
• The first Viceroy of India: Lord Canning, 1858
• Governor-General of India: Warren Hastings, 1773
• Governor-General of Independent India: Lord Mountbatten, 1947
• Indian Governor-General of Indian Union: C Rajagopalachari, 1948
• Chief Justice of India: H. J. Kania (1947–1951)
• First Sikh Prime Minister: Manmohan Singh (2004–present)
• First Muslim President: Zakir Hussain (1967–1969)
• First Sikh President: Giani Zail Singh
• First Chief Minister of West Bengal: Dr. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
• Indian ICS Officer: Satyendranath Tagore, 1863
• Speaker of Lok Sabha: G.V. Mavlankar (1952–1956)
• Finance Minister of Independent India: R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty (1947–1949), for others see First Indian Cabinet
• Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence: R. K. Shanmukhan Chetty on 26 November 1947
• First Home Minister of India: Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
• First Indian President to die in Office: Dr. Zakir Hussain, 3 May 1969
• First Chief Minister to die in Office: C.N.Annadurai, Tamil Nadu
• First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office: Morarji Desai, 1979
• First Woman Cabinet Minister in India: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
• First Woman Minister in India: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
• First Woman Chief Minister: Sucheta Kriplani
• First Woman Chief Minister of West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee(2011-present)
• First Female Home Minister: Sabitha Indra Reddy in Andhra Pradesh Govt.
• First Woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
• First Woman Finance Minister of State Government in India: Dr. Upinderjit Kaur,in  Punjab Govt.