Indian Festivals Quiz
Who was the first man to reach the South Pole?
- Robert Peary
- Edmund Hillary
- Ronald Amundsen
- Rakesh Sharma
The correct answer is Ronald Amundsen.
Who was the first man to climb Mt. Everest?
- Robert Peary
- Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary
- W.K. Roentgen
- JH Wenthoff
The correct answer is Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary.
Who was the first man to reach the North Pole?
- Ronald Amundsen
- Robert Peary
- Sherpa Tenzing
- Edmund Hillary
The correct answer is Robert Peary.
Who was the first man to win a Nobel Prize for Physics?
- W.K. Roentgen
- JH Wenthoff
- Albert Einstein
- Marie Curie
The correct answer is W.K. Roentgen.
Who was the first Prime Minister of Great Britain?
- Winston Churchill
- Sir Robert Walpole
- Margaret Thatcher
- Tony Blair
The correct answer is Sir Robert Walpole.
Who was India’s first man in space?
- Neil Armstrong
- Kalpana Chawla
- Rakesh Sharma
- Yuri Gagarin
The correct answer is Rakesh Sharma.
Who was the first man to win a Nobel Prize for Chemistry?
- Marie Curie
- W.K. Roentgen
- JH Wenthoff
- Albert Einstein
The correct answer is JH Wenthoff.
Who was the first UN Deputy Secretary-General?
- Kofi Annan
- Louise Frechette
- Ban Ki-moon
- Antonio Guterres
The correct answer is Louise Frechette.
Who was the first President of the Indian Republic?
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- B.R. Ambedkar
The correct answer is Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
Who was the first Prime Minister of Great Britain?
- Winston Churchill
- Robert Walpole
- Margaret Thatcher
- Tony Blair
The correct answer is Robert Walpole.
Who was Pakistan’s first Governor-General?
- Liaquat Ali Khan
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- Pervez Musharraf
The correct answer is Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Who was the first man to set foot on the moon?
- Buzz Aldrin
- Neil Armstrong
- Yuri Gagarin
- Michael Collins
The correct answer is Neil Armstrong.
Who was the first Indian to win a Nobel Prize?
- C.V. Raman
- Mother Teresa
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Amartya Sen
The correct answer is Rabindranath Tagore.
Who was the first Indian Air Chief Marshal?
- Arjan Singh
- Subroto Mukherjee
- S. Mukherjee
- Rakesh Sharma
The correct answer is S. Mukherjee.
Who was the first man to fly an aeroplane?
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Wright Brothers
- Amelia Earhart
- Charles Lindbergh
The correct answer is Wright Brothers.
Who was the first man to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine?
- Robert Koch
- AE Von Behring
- Alexander Fleming
- Paul Ehrlich
The correct answer is AE Von Behring.
Who was the first man to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Sully Prudhomme
- Albert Camus
- Ernest Hemingway
The correct answer is Sully Prudhomme.
Who was the first man to win the Nobel Prize for Economics?
- Paul Samuelson
- Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen
- Amartya Sen
- Milton Friedman
The correct answer is Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen.
Who was the first person to receive the Jnanpith Award?
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Sir Shankar Kurup
- G. Sankara Kurup
- R.K. Narayan
The correct answer is Sir Shankar Kurup.
Who was the first Indian pilot?
- Rakesh Sharma
- J.R.D. Tata
- Indira Gandhi
- Vikram Sarabhai
The correct answer is J.R.D. Tata.
Who was the first person to stay in Rashtrapati Bhawan?
- Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- Lord Irwin
- Lord Mountbatten
- Jawaharlal Nehru
The correct answer is Lord Irwin.
Who was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations?
- Dag Hammarskjöld
- Trygve Lie
- U Thant
- Kofi Annan
The correct answer is Trygve Lie.
Who was the first ethnic-Indian Prime Minister of Fiji?
- Frank Bainimarama
- Mahendra Choudhary
- Laisenia Qarase
- Sitiveni Rabuka
The correct answer is Mahendra Choudhary.
Who was the first Russian (Soviet) Prime Minister to visit India?
- Joseph Stalin
- Nikolai Bulganin
- Vladimir Lenin
- Mikhail Gorbachev
The correct answer is Nikolai Bulganin.
Who was the first President of the Republic of China?
- Mao Zedong
- Dr Sun Yat-Sen
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Li Yuanhong
The correct answer is Dr Sun Yat-Sen.
Who was the first European invader of Indian soil?
- Genghis Khan
- Alexander, The Great
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Marco Polo
The correct answer is Alexander, The Great.
Who was the first man to go into space?
- Neil Armstrong
- Major Yuri Gagarin
- Buzz Aldrin
- John Glenn
The correct answer is Major Yuri Gagarin.
Who was the first American President to visit India?
- John F. Kennedy
- Dwight David Eisenhower
- Richard Nixon
- Bill Clinton
The correct answer is Dwight David Eisenhower.
Who was the first man to walk in space?
- Buzz Aldrin
- Alexei Leonov
- Yuri Gagarin
- Chris Hadfield
The correct answer is Alexei Leonov.
Who was the first European to visit China?
- Vasco da Gama
- Marco Polo
- Christopher Columbus
- Ferdinand Magellan
The correct answer is Marco Polo.
Who was the first man to draw a map of the Earth?
- Ptolemy
- Anaximander
- Eratosthenes
- Hipparchus
The correct answer is Anaximander.
Who was the first blind man to scale Mount Everest?
- Reinhold Messner
- Eric Weihenmayer
- Tenzing Norgay
- Junko Tabei
The correct answer is Eric Weihenmayer.
Who was the first person to sail around the world?
- Christopher Columbus
- Ferdinand Magellan
- James Cook
- Vasco da Gama
The correct answer is Ferdinand Magellan.
Who was the first man to climb Mount Everest twice?
- Edmund Hillary
- Nawang Gombu
- Tenzing Norgay
- George Mallory
The correct answer is Nawang Gombu.
Who was the first man to hit a double century in a One Day International match?
- Virender Sehwag
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Rohit Sharma
- Chris Gayle
The correct answer is Sachin Tendulkar.
Who was the first person to receive the Stalin Prize?
- Bhagat Singh
- Saifuddin Kitchlew
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Subhas Chandra Bose
The correct answer is Saifuddin Kitchlew.
Who was the first person to receive the Param Vir Chakra?
- Captain Vikram Batra
- Major Somnath Sharma
- Lt. Manoj Pandey
- Naik Jadunath Singh
The correct answer is Major Somnath Sharma.
Who was the first Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna Award?
- C. Rajagopalachari
- Dr. Radhakrishnan
- Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
- Indira Gandhi
The correct answer is Dr. Radhakrishnan.
Who was the first person to receive the Jnanpith Award?
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Sir Shankar Kurup
- Mulk Raj Anand
- R.K. Narayan
The correct answer is Sir Shankar Kurup.
Who was the first person to reach Mount Everest without oxygen?
- Reinhold Messner
- Sherpa Anga Dorjee
- Tenzing Norgay
- Edmund Hillary
The correct answer is Sherpa Anga Dorjee.
Who was the first Indian to swim across the English Channel?
- Arati Saha
- Mihir Sen
- Bula Choudhury
- Virdhawal Khade
The correct answer is Mihir Sen.
Who was the first Indian to score a triple century in Test Cricket?
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Virender Sehwag
- Rahul Dravid
- Sunil Gavaskar
The correct answer is Virender Sehwag.
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