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Q1. Who was the first President of the Indian Republic?

A) S. Radhakrishnan

B) B.R. Ambedkar

C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

D) Zakir Hussain

Q2. Who was the first Prime Minister of free India?

A) Lal Bahadur Shastri

B) Indira Gandhi

C) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

D) Rajendra Prasad

Q3. Who was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize?

A) C.V. Raman

B) Mother Teresa

C) Rabindranath Tagore

D) Amartya Sen

Q4. Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress?

A) A.O. Hume

B) W.C. Banerjee

C) Dadabhai Naoroji

D) Surendra Nath Banerjee

Q5. Who was the first Muslim President of India?

A) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

B) Dr. Zakir Hussain

C) Abdul Kalam

D) Mohammed Ali Jinnah

Q6. Who was the first Prime Minister of India to resign?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru

B) Lal Bahadur Shastri

C) Morarji Desai

D) V.P. Singh

Q7. Who was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India?

A) Gen. Thimayya

B) General Cariappa

C) Manekshaw

D) Rajendra Singhji

Q8. Who was the first Chief of Army Staff of India?

A) General Cariappa

B) Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji

C) Manekshaw

D) Sundarji

Q9. Who was the first Indian member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council?

A) S.N. Banerjee

B) S.P. Sinha

C) Dadabhai Naoroji

D) W.C. Banerjee

Q10. Who was the first President of India to die while in office?

A) Radhakrishnan

B) V.V. Giri

C) Dr. Zakir Hussain

D) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

Q11. Who was the first Muslim President of the Indian Republic?

A) Radhakrishnan

B) Abdul Kalam

C) Dr. Zakir Hussain

D) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

Q12. Who was the first Field Marshal of India?

A) Cariappa

B) Sundarji

C) S.H.F. Manekshaw

D) Rajendra Singhji

Q13. Who was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics?

A) H.J. Bhabha

B) C.V. Raman

C) Vikram Sarabhai

D) Abdul Kalam

Q14. Who was the first Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna award?

A) Nehru

B) Patel

C) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

D) Rajendra Prasad

Q15. Who was the first Indian to cross the English Channel?

A) Milkha Singh

B) Mihir Sen

C) Arati Saha

D) P.T. Usha

Q16. Who was the first person to receive the Jnanpith Award?

A) R.K. Narayan

B) Sri Shankar Kurup

C) Amrita Pritam

D) M.T. Vasudevan Nair