Personalities & Firsts GK MCQ
20 Personalities & Firsts GK questions, in 1 set of up to 20. Practise with the answer and explanation after each question, or take a set as a timed test. Questions are in English and Hindi.
Sample questions
The first questions of Set 1. Open the set to answer them and see the explanations.
Q1.Consider the following statements about a prominent film personality of India: He was born in Hyderabad. He emerged in the 1970s with a series of films that challenged mainstream Bollywood. He became widely known for Bharat Ek Khoj, a landmark 53-episode television series. He directed a 2023 biopic about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Identify the personality from the following:
- A) Govind Nihalani
- B) Girish Karnad
- C) Shyam Benegal
- D) Mani Ratnam
Q2.Who among the following was the first Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog?
- A) Arvind Panagariya
- B) Raghuram Rajan
- C) Chandrashekhara Subramanyam
- D) Rajiv Kumar
Q3.Who amongst the following is considered as father of India's space programme?
- A) Vikram Sarabhai
- B) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
- C) Nambi Narayanan
- D) G. Madhavan Nair
Q4.The first woman to climb Mount Everest was
- A) Junko Taibei
- B) Karolina Mikkelson
- C) Valentina Tereshkova
- D) None of the above
Q5.Who among the following environmentalists is known by the name of 'Jal Purush'?
- A) Sunderlal Bahuguna
- B) Rajendra Choudhary
- C) B. Venkateswarlu
- D) Salim Ali
Q6.Suchitra Sen was an
- A) writer
- B) actress
- C) journalist
- D) political leader
Q7.Who is the first Indian woman soldier skydiver?
- A) Shital Mahajan Rane
- B) Manju
- C) Anamika Sharma
- D) Shweta Parmar
Q8.From the following industrialists, who is known as the 'Steel Man of India'?
- A) Lakshmi Mittal
- B) Om Prakash Jindal
- C) Jamshed J. Irani
- D) Anil Agrawal
Q9.Who was Sikkim's last sovereign king?
- A) Phuntsog Namgyal
- B) Tensung Namgyal
- C) Tashi Namgyal
- D) Palden Thondup Namgyal
Q10.Who was the first Indian to win an Academy Award (Oscar)?
- A) Gulzar
- B) Bhanu Athaiya
- C) A.R. Rahman
- D) Resul Pookutty