Polity GK-01

Polity GK-01 

1. Where was the first session of the Constituent Assembly held?

Answer: New Delhi

2. Who is the first person to set foot on Moon?

Answer: Neil Armstrong

3. Which was the first talkie film of India?

Answer: Alam Ara

4. Which was the first English ship that came to India?

Answer: Red Dragon

5. Which was the first newspaper to be published in India?

Answer: Bengal Gazette

6. At which one place did Mahatma Gandhi first start his Satyagraha in India?

Answer: Champaran

7. By which ruler was the practice of military governorship first introduced in India?

Answer: Greeks

8. Who was the first person to cross the Alps with army?

Answer: Hannibal

9. The first railway line in India was opened in which year?

Answer: 1853

10. Which metal was first discovered by man?

Answer: Copper

11. From when was the Zero Base Budgeting in India first experimented?

Answer: April, 1987

12. Who was the first Indian woman President of the Indian National Congress?

Answer: Sarojini Naidu

13. During India's Freedom Struggle, which led to the first 'All India Hartal'?

Answer: Protest against Rowlatt Act

14. Which Rajputa king defeated Muhammad Ghori for the first time?

Answer: Prithviraj III

15. Where were first Olympic Games held?

Answer: 776 B.C.

16. In which year was the first no confidence motion moved in the Lok Sabha after independence?

Answer: 1963

17. In which country was Buddhism first propogated outside India?

Answer: Srilanka

18. Who was the first Indian to be honoured with a lifetime achievement Oscar Award?

Answer: Satyajit Roy

19. By whom was Gene first isolated?

Answer: Hargobind Khurana

20. Which was the first woman to climb Mount Everest?

Answer: Junko Tabei

21. By whom was the Bhakti Movement first organised?

Answer: Ramananda

22. Which first Europeans came to India?

Answer: Portuguese

23. When did man first land on moon?

Answer: 1969

24. Which was the first woman Governor of a State in free India?

Answer: Mrs. Sarojini Neidu

25. Who was the first General-Secretary of the Indian National Congress?

Answer: Dadabhai Neoroii

26. Which is the first geostationary telecommunication satellite of India?

Answer: APPLE

27. Which first Indian leader to undergo imprisonment in 1882?

Answer: Vijiaraghavachari

28. What is the duration of proclamation of Financial Emergency?

Answer: At the first instance two months

29. Which was the first metal used by man?

Answer: Copper

30. In which Aryans first settled?

Answer: Punjab

31. The Asian Games were held in Delhi for the first time in which year?

Answer: 1951

32. Who was the first speaker of the Lok Sabha?

Answer: Malgaonkar

33. Who was the first Indian to win the World Amateur Billiards title?

Answer: Wilson Jones

34. Who was the first asian to have received the Nobel Prize?

Answer: R.N. Tagore

35. Who was the first Sultan of Delhi to introduce the practice of ‘Sijda'?

Answer: Balban

36. By whom was Swaraj as a national demand first 'made?

Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji

37. During the Mughal period which trader first came to India?

Answer: English

38. Which God lost his importance as the first deity during the Later Vedic period?

Answer: Varuna

39. Which was the first scholar, who read Ashokan edicts?

Answer: James Princep

40. Which was the first National Security Advisor of India?

Answer: Brajesh Mishra

41. What is the first compound which is fixed during photosynthesis?

Answer: Glucose

42. In India, which first bank of limited liability managed by Indians and founded in 1881?

Answer: Oudh Commercial Bank

43. By whom was first women's university in India was founded?

Answer: Dhondo Keshave Karve

44. Who was the member of the Rajya Sabha when first appointed as the Prime Minister of India?

Answer: Indira Gandhi

45. Which is the first company-managed major port in India?

Answer: Ennore

46. From-which date shall the tenure of every Panchayat be for five years?

Answer: From the date of its first meeting

47. What was the first venture of Gandhiji in all- India politics?

Answer: Rowlatt Satyagraha

48. Which is the first multipurpose river valley project of independent India?

Answer: Damodar Valley Corporation

49. Who was the first Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission of India?

Answer: Shri V. T. Krishnamachari

50. Who was the first Defence Minister of India?

Answer: N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar