First in India
First in India - First Indians
| Questions | Answers |
| First Woman to climb mount Everest | Bachhendri pal |
| First Woman of the world to climb mount Everest twice | Santosh Yadav |
| The First President of India Republic | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| The First Prime Minister of Free India | Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru |
| The First Woman Prime Minister of India | Mrs. Indira Gandhi |
| The First Indian Air Force Officer to get Param Vir Chaka | Nirmal Jit Sekhon (Posthumous) |
| The First India to win Nobel Prize | Dr. Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| The First President of Indian National Congress | W.C. Banerjee |
| The First Muslim President of India | Dr. Zakir Hussain |
| The First Indian Lady to become ‘Miss World’ | Rita Faria |
| The First Woman Ambassador of India | (Miss) C. B. Muthamma |
| The First Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly | Mrs. Vijay Laxami Pandit (1953-54) |
| The First Woman President of the Indian National Congress | Mrs. Annie Besant |
| First Woman Governor of a Province in Free India | Mrs. Sarojini Naidau |
| The First Woman Chief Minister of an Indian State | Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani (C.M. of U.P.) |
| The First Indian Woman to become Speaker of a State Assembly in India | Srimati Shanno Devi (Haryana Assembly) |
| The First Governor General of Free India | Lord Mountbatten |
| The First and the Last Indian to be the Governor General of India | C. Rajgopalachari |
| The First British Governor General | Warren Hastings |
| The First Indian Commander-in-Chief of India | General Cariappa |
| The First man to introduce Printing Press in India | James Hickey |
| The First Indian member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council | S. P. Sinha |
| The First Indian to join the I.C.S. | Satyendra Nath Tagore |
| The First Field Marshal of India | S.H.F.J. Manekshaw |
| The First Indian to get Nobel Prize for Physics | C.V. Raman |
| The First Indian politician to be sworn in as Chief Minister of a State despite conviction by the court | Jayalalithaa (Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu) |
| India’s First man in space | Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma |
| The First Prime Minister of India who was assassinated while in office | Smt. Indira Gandhi |
| The first Indian Artificial Satellite to go in space | Aryabhatta |
| First woman judge in Supreme Court | Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi |
| First woman Chief Justice of a High Court | Mrs. Leela Seth |
| First woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission | Roze Millian Bethew |
| The first woman pilot in India Air Force | Harita kaur Dayol |
| The first Indian woman to bag a medal in weightlifting of the Olympic games | Karnam Malleshwari (27th Olympic games, Sydney, Australia) |
| India’s first woman Merchant Navy Officer | Sonali Banerjee |
| The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha | G.M.C. Balyogi |
| The first Woman Joint Director in the CBI | Archana Ramasundaram |
| The first Scientist President of the Republic of India | Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| The first woman President of the Republic of India | Pratibha Patil (13th President after Independence) |
| The first woman cricketer to score double century | Mithali Raj |
| The first Indian woman to be appointed as Civil Police Advisor in the UNO | Ms. Kiran Bedi |
| The first Commander Chief of the Strategic Forces Command | Air Marshal Tej Mohan Asthana |
| The first youngest Mayor of a city | Ms. Neeta Sodhi (Mayor of Jamshedpur) |
| The first woman Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India | K. J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003) |
| The first Indian sports lady to register a win in Wimbledon Tennis | Sania Mirza (July 2003) |
| The first Indian sportswoman to win a medal in World Athletics | Anju B. George (August 2003, Paris) |
| The first Indian woman to become the Director General of Police of a State | Kanchan Chaudhury Bhattacharya (DGP of Uttarakhand) |
| The first Indian woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the armed forces | Lt. Gen. Puneeta Arora |
| The first Indian woman in the world to swim across seven seas and five continents of the world | Bula Chaudhury |
| The Indian lady to become Indian Air Forces first woman Air Marshal | Air Marshal Padma Bandopadhyay |
| The first Indian cricketer to score a century against all the test match playing countries | Rahul Dravid |
| The first Indian to establish a world record in flying to the highest of heights ever reached yet in a hot balloon | Vijaypath Singhania (November, 2005, 69852 ft.) |
| The first lady President of P.H.D.C.C.I. | Sushma Barlia |
| The first person appointed as whole life time Chancellor of a new and biggest Yoga institution in the world at Haridwar (Uttarakhand) | Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev appointed Chancellor of Patanjali Yog Pith University on March 6, 2006 by the Government of Uttarakhand. |
| The first man of Indian origin to become the Governor of a State of the U.S.A. | Bobby Jindal (Governor of Louisiana, elected on October 20 2007) |
| The first Indian woman saint to be canonized by Pope Benedict XVI | Sister Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, October, 2008 |
| The first Indian woman to become the world’s first woman to fly the mighty Russian MIG-35 fighter jet. | Suman Sharma |
| The first Indian woman to become speaker of the Lok Sabha | Smt. Meira Kumar |
The first Indian woman to do Parachute jump without any training over the North pole and Antarctica (South pole). Shital Mahajan