First in India General Knowledge

• President - Dr. Rajendra Prasad

• National Security Adviser - Brijesh Mishra

• Vice-President - Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan

• Prime-Minister - Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

• Home Minister - Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

• Finance Minister of India - R. K. Shanmukham Chetty

• Auditor General of India - V. Narahari Rao

• Director of CBI - DP Kohli

• Governor of RBI - Sir Osborne Smith



• Non-Congress Prime-Minister - Morarji Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79.

• British Governor-General of Bengal - Warren-Hastings

• Space traveller - S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma

• Woman IAS - Anna Ranjan George, 1950

• Sportsperson to received Bharat Ratna - Sachin Tendulkar

• Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming - Mihir Sen

• Woman to swim across the English Channel - Arati Saha, 1959

• Raman-Magsaysay awardee - Acharya Vinoba Bhave

• Novel prize winner - Rabindra Nath Tagore

• Nobel Prize in Physics - C. V. Raman in 1930

• President of National Congress - Vyomesh Chand Banerjee

• Chairman of Lok Sabha - G. B. Mavlankar

• First Woman Chief Minister - Sucheta Kriplani

• Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha - Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009

• Chief Election Commissioner - Sukumar Sen

• Indian Chairman in International Court - Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh

• Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna - Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

• Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission - Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim

• Chief Justice of Supreme Court - Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya

• Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’ - Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, Sir C.  V. Raman

• Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’ - Indira Gandhi

• Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters - Mrinal Sen

• Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter - Sivaji Ganeshan

• Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee - Lal Bahadur Shastri

• Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar - G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)

• Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar - Ashapurna Devi, 1976

• Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner - Amrita Pritam, 1956

• Woman Honours Graduate - Kamini Roy

• Woman Director General of Police - Kanchan C Bhattacharya

• Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart - Dr. P. Venugopal

• Woman to received Nobal Prize - Mother Teresa

• Woman Governor - Sarojini Naidu

• Licensed Pilot - J R D Tat

• Woman Air Pilot - Durba Banerjee

• Woman Teacher - Savitribai Phule

• Successful heart transplanted person - Devi Ram (1994)

• President of National Human Rights Commission - Justice Rangnath Mishra

• Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar - Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968)

• Indian who won the World Billiard award - Wilson Jans

• Indian who won the Grammy award - Pt. Ravi Shankar

• Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O. - Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977)

• Indian member in British House of Commons - Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892)

• First President of Indian Science Congress - Sir Asutosh Mukherjee

• Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times - Sherpa-Augarita

• Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’ - Ramvilas Sharma

• Indian Managing Director of World Bank - Gautam Kazi

• Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’ - C. K. Naidu

• Actress to win Padma Shri Award - Nargis Dutt, 1958

• Indian players played Davis Cup - M. Salim and S. M. Jacob (Singles), A. A. Faiyaz and L. S. Dare (Doubles) (1921)
• Tennis Grandslam title winner - Mahesh Bhupati

• Indian player who played the test cricket - K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England)

• Scientist elected for Lok Sabha - Dr. Meghnad Saha

• Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla award - Prof. Ashish Datta (1991)

• Literature who was awarded Murti Devi Purskar - C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)

• Person who became High Commission in Great Britain - V. K. Krishna-Menon

• Indian who was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize - Dr. Safuddin Kichlu (1952)

• First Indian who contested the election for British Parliament - Lal Mohan Ghose

• Woman Graduates - Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883

• Woman Chief Justice of High Court - Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991

• An Indian appointed the judge of High Court, during the British period - Ram Prasad Ram

• Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council - Sir. S. P. Sinha

• Leanin Peace Prize - Saifuddin Kitchlew

• Chairman of Finance Commission - K. C. Niogi

• Woman Doctorate of Science - Asima Chatterjee (1944)

• Woman IPS - Kiran Bedi

• Woman Supreme Court judge - Kumari Fathima Beevi

• Indian member of American Congress - Deleep Singh

• Editor of Time Magazine - Bobby Ghosh

• Director of CBI becoming Governor - Ashwani Kumar

• Person to reach the North Pole - Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar

• Person to reach the South Pole - Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj

• Nishan-e-Pakistan - Morarji Desai, 1990

• Magsaysay Award - Vinoba Bhave, 1958

• 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

• Place to get electricity - Darjeeling in 1897

• Sound film - Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani

• Colour film - Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani

• Oscar winner - Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982.

• Dadasaheb Phalke Award - Devika Rani in 1969

• Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters - Sivaji Ganesan

• Test-tube baby - Durga Agarwal, born 1978

• Newspaper - Hickey's Bengal Gazette started in 1760

• First Lady Doctor - Anandibai Joshi

• Satellite - Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975

• Man to climb Mt Everest - Tenzing Norgay

• Man to climb Mt Everest without oxygen - Phu Dorjee, 1984

• Woman to climb Mt everest - Bachendri Pal

• District to achieve 100% literacy rate - Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990

• Captain in Tests - C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England
• ODI captain - Ajit Wadekar

• Bowler who made hat-trick in Test Cricket - Harbhajan Singh

• Batsman who made 300 runs in test Cricket - Virendra Sehwag

• First Marshal of Indian Air Force - Arjan Singh

• Individual Medal in Olympic games - KD Jadhav
• Grandmaster - Viswanathan Anad

• Woman Grandmaster - Koneru Humpy

• First Indian who individually won the Gold medal in Olympic games - Abhinav Bindra

• First Indian who won the Bronze medal in Boxing in Olympic games - Vijendra Kumar

• Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge - Srinivasa Ramanujan

• Fellow of the Royal Society - Ardaseer Cursetjee

• Woman External Affairs Minister - Sushma Swaraj

• Governor-General of Independent India - Lord Lewis Mountbatten

• Indian Governor-General of Independent India - Chakravarti Rajgopalachari

• Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India - General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949

• Field Marshall - General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw

• Speaker of loksabha - Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956)