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Who was the first Indian to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen?

  • (A) Arjun Vajpai
  • (B) Tenzing Norgay
  • (C) Babu Chiri Sherpa
  • (D) Krishan Kumar

Answer: Arjun Vajpai

Arjun Vajpai became the first Indian to reach the summit of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen in 2011.

Who was the first Indian to receive the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Fiction?

  • (A) Vikram Seth
  • (B) Arundhati Roy
  • (C) Kiran Desai
  • (D) Ruskin Bond

Answer: Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Fiction in 2006 for her novel The Inheritance of Loss.

Who was the first Indian to get a doctorate from Oxford University?

  • (A) Jawaharlal Nehru
  • (B) C.R. Das
  • (C) Lala Lajpat Rai
  • (D) M.K. Gandhi

Answer: C.R. Das

C.R. Das was the first Indian to receive a doctorate from Oxford University.

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Who was the first woman to win the Booker Prize for Fiction?

  • (A) Arundhati Roy
  • (B) Kiran Desai
  • (C) Kamala Das
  • (D) Anita Desai

Answer: Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy became the first woman Indian author to win the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel The God of Small Things.

Who was the first Indian woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal?

  • (A) P.T. Usha
  • (B) Saina Nehwal
  • (C) Mary Kom
  • (D) Karnam Malleswari

Answer: Karnam Malleswari

Karnam Malleswari won an Olympic bronze medal in weightlifting in 2000, becoming the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal in an individual event.

Who was the first Indian to be elected to the British Parliament?

  • (A) Dadabhai Naoroji
  • (B) Lala Lajpat Rai
  • (C) Subhas Chandra Bose
  • (D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji

Dadabhai Naoroji was the first Indian to be elected to the British Parliament in 1892.

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Who was the first Indian to serve as the Secretary-General of the United Nations?

  • (A) V.K. Krishna Menon
  • (B) Kofi Annan
  • (C) Shashi Tharoor
  • (D) B. N. Rau

Answer: V.K. Krishna Menon

V.K. Krishna Menon was the first Indian to serve as the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Who was the first Indian to reach the summit of Mount Everest without oxygen?

  • (A) Tenzing Norgay
  • (B) Narinder Singh
  • (C) Arjun Vajpai
  • (D) Pushkar Kumar

Answer: Arjun Vajpai

Arjun Vajpai became the first Indian to reach the summit of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen in 2011.

Who was the first Indian to win the Wimbledon Men?s Singles title?

  • (A) Leander Paes
  • (B) Vijay Amritraj
  • (C) Ramesh Krishnan
  • (D) Mahesh Bhupathi

Answer: Vijay Amritraj

Vijay Amritraj was the first Indian to win the Wimbledon Mens Singles title in 1973, although Leander Paes is known for his doubles success.

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Who was the first Indian cricketer to score a century in a Test match?

  • (A) Lala Amarnath
  • (B) Kapil Dev
  • (C) Sunil Gavaskar
  • (D) Sachin Tendulkar

Answer: Lala Amarnath

Lala Amarnath was the first Indian cricketer to score a century in a Test match in 1933 against England.

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