India's First - General Knowledge QA Part-3

• 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. SinhaMorarji Desai

• 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 Sushmita Sen

• 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

• 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

• Test-tube baby—Durga Agarwal, born 1978

• Newspaper—Hickey's Bengal Gazette started in 1760Tenzing Norgay

• 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

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