GK questions about First and Famous Women :updated for GK exams

General knowledge Questions and Answers related to the First women (female or First lady of ) in India 

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A. Who is the First Female President of India?

Answer: Prathibha DeviSingh Patil

1. Who is the First Woman Governer of India?

Answer: Sarojini Naidu

Notes: 

• sarojini naidu's birthday is celebrated as national women's day in India on feb 13
•  sarojini naidu is the first women governor of India
• sarojini naidu is known as "Nightingale of India"
• important literary works are "Broken wing","The Golden Threshold","The Bird of Time"

2. Who is the First Female Prime minister of India?

Answer: Indira Gandhi

3. Who is the first Woman Chief Minister of India?

Answer: Sucheta Kriplani

4. Who is the First Woman Minister of India?

Answer: Vijayalakshmi Pandit

5. Who is the First Woman Central Minister of India?

Answer: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

6. Who is the First Woman Speaker of India?

Answer: Meira Kumar

7. Who is the First Woman Speaker of a State Assembly?

Answer: Shano Devi

8. The First Indian Woman who Swam across English channel?

Answer: Arti Saha

9. The First Indian Woman who Swam across Gibraltar Strait?

Answer: Arti Pradhan

10. Who is the First Miss World from India?

Answer: Reetha Faria

11. Who is the First Miss Universe from India?

Answer: Susmitha sen

12. Who is the first Miss India?

Answer: Pramila Esther Abraham


13. Who is the first woman IPS?
Answer: Kiran Bedi


14. Who was the first woman IAS?
Answer: Anna Malhotra


15. Who was the first Woman High court Judge?
Answer:  Anna Chandy


16. Who was the first female Chief Justice of High court?
Answer:  Leila Seth


17. Who was the first Lady Magistrate?
Answer: Omana Kunjamma

18. Who is the first woman to become the Chief Election Commissioner of India ?
Answer: V.S. Ramadevi

19. Who is the first Indian woman to win Nobel Prize?
Answer: Mother Teresa


20. Who is the first woman to win Bharat Ratna?
Answer: Indira Gandhi

*20a. First women musician to get Bharat Ratna?
Answer: M S Subbulakshmi 

*21. Who is the First Indian woman to win a Medal in Olympics? 
Answer: Karnam Malleswari  

*22. Who is the first women president of India? 
Answer: Pratibha Patil 

*23. The first Indian woman who reached space?
Answer:  Kalpana Chawla

*24. First women Nominated to Rajyasabha?
Answer: Rukmini Devi Arundale 

*25. First women, to win Dadhasaheb phalke award?
answer: Devika Rani Roerich

*26. The first women president of INC(Indian national congress)
Answer: Annie Besent 

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1. Who is the founder of East India Association ?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji 


2. Who is the father of Indian politics ?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji


3. Who is the father of Indian economics ?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji 


4. who are the founders of London Indian Society 
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji and W.C. Bonnerjee


5. Who is the creator of Drain theory ?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji 


6. Who is the creator of Brain Drain theory ?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji 


7. Who is the first Indian elected to British parliament ?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji


8. Who coined the name Indian National Congress (INC) ?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji


9. Who used the word 'Swaraj' firstly ?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji


10. Who is the first Indian calculated the national Income ?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji


11. Who was the Second President of Indian National Congress ?
 Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji

12. Who has the nick name "Grand old man of India" ?

Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji

13. Who wrote the book "Poverty and Un-British Rule in India" ?

Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji

14. What is the name of news paper started by Dadabhai Naoroji ?

Answer: Voice of India

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General knowledge questions about Indian Scientists


1. Who is known as the father of Yoga ?
answer: Patanjali


2. Which Indian is known as the father of plastic Surgery ?
Answer: Sushruta


3. Who is the father of Ayurveda ?
answer: Charaka


4. Who is known as the father of Indian Space program ?
Answer: Dr Vikram Sarabhai


5. Who is known as the father of Indian Missile Program  ?
Answer: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam


6. Who is known as father of Indian atomic bomb ?
answer: Raja Ramanna


7. Who invented Crescograph ?
Answer: Jagadish Chandra Bose


8. Who is known as the father of Indian Green Revolution ?
Answer:  M. S. Swaminathan


9. Which Indian Scientist is known as Thomas Alva Edison of India ?
Answer: G. D. Naid


10. Who is known as the father of white revolution ?
Answer: Verghese Kurien



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Child is the father of man =>> Wordsworth

Gharibi Hatawo =>> Indira Gandhi

Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan =>> Lal Bahadur shastri

Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan =>> Atal Bihari Vajpayee

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing =>> Alexander Pope

To err is human to forgive is divine =>> Alexander Pope

I came, I saw, I conquered =>> Julius Caesar 


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Important questions about Maulana Abul Kalam Azad


Previously asked questions about Maulana Abul Kalam Azad


1. Who was the free India's first Union Education Minister ?
answer: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad


2. Who started the Urdu weeklies Al Hilal and Al Balagh ?
answer: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad


3. Who wrote the book "India Wins Freedom" ?
answer: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad


4. Whose birthday is observed as National Education Day in India ?
Answer: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad


5. Which day is observed as National Education Day ?
Answer: November 11


* 6. Who is the youngest president of INC ?
Answer: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

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General knowledge quiz questions about the famous personality : Raja Ram Mohan Roy




1. Who is known as father of modern India ?
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy


2. Who is the father of Indian Renaissance ?
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy


3. Who is the founder of Brahmo Samajam ?
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy


4. Who is the Founder of Atmiya Sabhan ?
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy


5. Who started the newspaper Sambad Kaumudi ?
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy

6. Who wrote 'Precepts of Jesus' ?
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy 


8. Who started Hindu college at Calcutta ?
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy 


9. Where is the resting place of Raja Ram Mohan Roy ?
Answer: Arnos Vale Cemetery (England)


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 Important and unimportant GK questions about Information Technology (IT) and fathers.



1. Who is the Father of Computer ?
Answer: Charles Babbage


2.  Who is the Father of Computer Science ?
Answer:  Alan Turing


3. Who is the Father of artificial intelligence ? 
Answer: Alan Turing


4. Who is the Father of Personal Computer ?
Answer: Henry Edward Roberts


5. Who is the Father of Binary Code  ?
Answer: Eugene Paul Curtis


6. Who is the Father of Binary Digit Computer  ?
Answer:  Konrad Zuse (worlds first binary digit computer >> Z1)



7. Who is the Father of Digital Computer  ?
Answer: Howard Aiken


8. Who is the Father of Electronic Digital Computer  ?
Answer: John Vincent Atanasoff


9. Who is the Father of Analog Computer  ?
Answer: Lord Kelvin


10. Who is the Father of Super Computer  ?
Answer: Seymour Cray


11. Who is the Father of Indian Super Computer  ?
Answer: Vijay Bhatkar


12. Who is the Father of Information Technology  ?
Answer: Claude Shannon



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