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'Firsts' questions test your factual recall. Learn the canonical list — President, PM, woman astronaut, Olympic gold etc. — by category.
| Position | First Holder |
|---|---|
| President of India | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| Vice President of India | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
| Prime Minister of India | Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Speaker of Lok Sabha | G.V. Mavalankar |
| Chief Justice of India | Justice Harilal J. Kania |
| Chief Election Commissioner | Sukumar Sen |
| Governor-General of independent India | Lord Mountbatten |
| First Indian Governor-General | C. Rajagopalachari |
| Field Marshal of India | Sam Manekshaw |
| Achievement | First Woman |
|---|---|
| President of India | Pratibha Patil |
| Prime Minister | Indira Gandhi |
| Speaker of Lok Sabha | Meira Kumar |
| Chief Minister of an Indian state | Sucheta Kripalani (UP) |
| IPS officer | Kiran Bedi |
| IAS officer | Anna Rajam Malhotra |
| To climb Mt. Everest | Bachendri Pal |
| To go to space (Indian-origin) | Kalpana Chawla |
| Indian woman in space (ISRO) | Rakesh Sharma was first Indian; Indian-origin astronaut Kalpana Chawla (NASA) |
| Miss World | Reita Faria |
| Achievement | First |
|---|---|
| Person on the Moon | Neil Armstrong (1969) |
| Woman in space | Valentina Tereshkova (USSR, 1963) |
| Person in space | Yuri Gagarin (USSR, 1961) |
| Country to issue paper currency | China |
| Country to print postage stamps | United Kingdom |
| Person to climb Mt. Everest | Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay (1953) |
| Woman to climb Mt. Everest | Junko Tabei (Japan, 1975) |
| Country to win football World Cup | Uruguay (1930) |
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Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, aboard Soyuz T-11 in 1984.
Pratibha Devisingh Patil (2007–2012).
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on 29 May 1953.
China.
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