Q21. Who was the First Transgender to receive the Padma Shri?
a) Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
b) Manabi Bandopadhyay
c) Kalki Subramaniam
d) Padmini Prakash
[expand title=”View Answer”]Answer: a. Laxmi Narayan Tripathi[/expand]
Q22. Who was the First Sportsperson to receive the Padma Shri?
a) Sachin Tendulkar
b) Dhyan Chand
c) P.T. Usha
d) Leander Paes
[expand title=”View Answer”]Answer: b. Dhyan Chand[/expand]
Q23. Who was the First Indian to receive the Param Vir Chakra?
a) Captain Vikram Batra
b) Major Somnath Sharma
c) Subedar Major Bana Singh
d) Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey
[expand title=”View Answer”]Answer: b. Major Somnath Sharma[/expand]
Q24. Who was the First Indian to receive an Oscar Award?
a) Satyajit Ray
b) A.R. Rahman
c) Bhanu Athaiya
d) Resul Pookutty
[expand title=”View Answer”]Answer: c. Bhanu Athaiya[/expand]
Q25. Who was the First Indian to receive the Magsaysay Award?
a) Vinoba Bhave
b) Jayaprakash Narayan
c) Mother Teresa
d) C.V. Raman
[expand title=”View Answer”]Answer: a. Vinoba Bhave[/expand]
Q26. Who was the First Indian to receive the Stalin Prize?
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) S. Chandrasekhar
c) Satyajit Ray
d) Homi Bhabha
[expand title=”View Answer”]Answer: c. Satyajit Ray[/expand]
Q27. Who was the First Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine?
a) C.V. Raman
b) Amartya Sen
c) Har Gobind Khorana
d) Ronald Ross
[expand title=”View Answer”]Answer: d. Ronald Ross[/expand]
Q28. Who was the First Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics?
a) Amartya Sen
b) Abhijit Banerjee
c) Manmohan Singh
d) Raghuram Rajan
[expand title=”View Answer”]Answer: a. Amartya Sen[/expand]
Q29. Who was the First Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
a) C.V. Raman
b) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
c) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
d) Satyendra Nath Bose
[expand title=”View Answer”]Answer: a. C.V. Raman[/expand]
Q30. Who was the First woman to receive the Jnanpith Award?
a) Ismat Chughtai
b) Amrita Pritam
c) Mahadevi Verma
d) Sarojini Naidu
[expand title=”View Answer”]Answer: b. Amrita Pritam[/expand]
