भारत का सबसे पहला, सबसे बड़ा, सबसे ऊँचा, भारतीय स्त्रियाँ,

भारत का सबसे पहला, सबसे बड़ा, सबसे ऊँचा
मुक्त ज्ञानकोष विकिपीडिया से
 सबसे लम्बी नदी -- गंगा
 सबसे ऊँचा जलप्रपात -- गरसोप्पा या जोग
 सबसे ऊँचा दरवाजा -- बुलन्द दरवाजा
 सबसे ऊँचा पत्तन -- लेह (लद्दाख)
 सबसे ऊँचा पशु -- जिर्राफ
 सबसे ऊँचा बाँध -- भाखड़ा नांगल बाँध
 सबसे ऊँची चोटी -- गॉडविन ऑस्टिन (K-2)
 सबसे ऊँची झील -- देवताल झील
 सबसे ऊँची मार्ग -- लेह-मनाली मार्ग
 सबसे ऊँची मीनार -- कुतुब मीनार
 सबसे ऊँची मूर्ति -- गोमतेश्वर
 सबसे बड़ा चिड़ियाघर -- कोलकाता का चिड़ियाघर
 सबसे बड़ा गुफा मन्दिर -- कैलाश मन्दिर (एलोरा)
 सबसे बड़ा गुरुद्वारा -- स्वर्ण मन्दिर (अमृतसर)
 सबसे बड़ा चिड़ियाघर -- जूलॉजिकल गॉर्डन्स (कोलकाता)
 सबसे बड़ा डेल्टा -- सुन्दरवन
 सबसे बड़ा तारामण्डल (प्लेनेटोरियम) -- बिड़ला तारामण्डल (प्लेनेटोरियम)
 सबसे बड़ा पशुओं का मेला -- सोनपुर (बिहार)
 सबसे बड़ा प्राकृतिक बन्दरगाह -- मुम्बई
 सबसे बड़ा रेगिस्तान -- थार (राजस्थान)
 सबसे बड़ा लीवर पुल -- हावड़ा सेतु (कोलकाता)
 सबसे बड़ी झील (खारे पानी की) -- चिल्का झील (उड़ीसा)
 सबसे बड़ी झील (मीठे पानी की) -- वूलर झील (काश्मीर)
 सबसे बड़ी मस्जिद -- जामा मस्जिद (दिल्ली)
 सबसे लम्बा प्लेटफॉर्म -- खड़गपुर (पश्चिम बंगाल)
 सबसे लम्बा बाँध -- हीराकुण्ड बाँध (उड़ीसा)
 सबसे लम्बा राष्ट्रीय राजमार्ग -- राजमार्ग नं. 7 (वाराणसी से कन्याकुमारी)
 सबसे लम्बा रेलमार्ग -- जम्मू से कन्याकुमारी
 सबसे लम्बा सड़क का पुल -- महात्मा गांधी सेतु (पटना)
 सबसे लम्बी तटरेखा वाला राज्य -- गुजरात
 सबसे लम्बी सड़क -- ग्रांड ट्रंक रोड
 सबसे लम्बी सुरंग -- जवाहर सुरंग (जम्मू काश्मीर)

• 1 भारतीय स्त्रियाँ

[संपादित करें]भारतीय स्त्रियाँ
 भारत की प्रथम महिला बैरिस्टर - कार्नेलिया सोराबजी
 स्नातक तक की पढ़ाई करने वाली प्रथम दो भारतीय महिलाएं - चन्द्रमुखी बसु एवं कादम्बिनी गांगुली ; इन्होंने १८८३ में स्नातक किया था।
 भारत में प्रथम महिला विश्वविद्यालय - १९१६ में स्थापित मुम्बई का एस.एन.डी.टी. महिला विश्वविद्यालय।
 भारत की प्रथम व्यावसायिक महिला पायलट - प्रेम माथुर  : १९५१ में यह पायलट बनी थीं।
 एशियाई खेलों में स्वर्ण पदक प्राप्त करने वाली पहली भारतीय महिला - कमलजीत संधू
 भारतीय सेना में कमीशन प्राप्त करने वाली प्रथम महिला - प्रिया झिंगन
 भारतीय वायु सेना में पहली महिला पायलट - हरिता कौर देओल
 सर्वोच्च न्यायालय में प्रथम महिला न्यायाधीश - एम. फातिमा बीवी
 माउंट एवरेस्ट पर चढ़ने वाली पहली भारतीय महिला - बछेन्द्री पाल
 कार चालने वाली प्रथम भारतीय महिला - सुजान्ने आर.डी. टाटा

]विभिन्न क्षेत्रों भारत में प्रथम
1. बंगाल के प्रथम ब्रिटिश गवर्नर जनरल- वारेन हेस्टिंग्स
2. स्वतंत्र भारत के प्रथम गवर्नर जनरल- लार्ड माउंट बेटन
3. स्वतंत्र भारत के प्रथम कमांडर इन चीफ- रॉय बुचर

यहाँ पर हिन्दी से सम्बन्धित सबसे पहले साहित्यकारों, पुस्तकों, स्थानों आदि के नाम दिये गये हैं।

यहाँ पर हिन्दी से सम्बन्धित सबसे पहले साहित्यकारों, पुस्तकों, स्थानों आदि के नाम दिये गये हैं।
 हिन्दी में प्रथम डी. लिट् - डा. पीताम्बर दत्त बड़थ्वाल
 विज्ञान में शोधप्रबंध हिंदी में देने वाले प्रथम विद्यार्थी - मुरली मनोहर जोशी
 अन्तरराष्ट्रीय संबन्ध पर अपना शोधप्रबंध लिखने वाले प्रथम व्यक्ति - वेद प्रताप वैदिक
 हिंदी में बी.टेक. का प्रोजेक्ट रिपोर्ट प्रस्तुत करने वाले प्रथम विद्यार्थी : श्यामरूद्र पाठक (सन् १९८५)
 डॉक्टर आफ मेडिसिन (एमडी) की शोधप्रबन्ध पहली बार हिन्दी में प्रस्तुत करने वाले - डॉ० मुनीश्वर गुप्त (सन् १९८७)
 हिन्दी माध्यम से एल-एल०एम० उत्तीर्ण करने वाला देश का प्रथम विद्यार्थी - चन्द्रशेखर उपाध्याय
 प्रबंधन क्षेत्र में हिन्दी माध्यम से प्रथम शोध-प्रबंध के लेखक - भानु प्रताप सिंह (पत्रकार) ; विषय था - उत्तर प्रदेश प्रशासन में मानव संसाधन की उन्नत प्रवत्तियों का एक विश्लेषणात्मक अध्ययन- आगरा मंडल के संदर्भ में
 हिन्दी का पहला इंजीनियर कवि - मदन वात्स्यायन
 हिन्दी में निर्णय देने वाला पहला न्यायधीश -- न्यायमूर्ति श्री प्रेम शंकर गुप्त
 सेंट्रल लेजिस्लेटिव असेंबली में हिन्दी के प्रथम वक्ता -- नारायण प्रसाद सिंह (सारण-दरभंगा ; 1926)
 हिन्दी में संयुक्त राष्ट्र संघ में भाषण देने वाला प्रथम राजनयिक -- अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी
 हिन्दी का प्रथम महाकवि -- चन्दबरदाई
 हिंदी का प्रथम महाकाव्य -- पृथ्वीराजरासो
 हिंदी का प्रथम ग्रंथ -- स्वयंभू द्वारा रचित पुमउ चरउ
 हिन्दी का पहला समाचार पत्र -- उदन्त मार्तण्ड (पं जुगलकिशोर शुक्ल)
 हिन्दी की प्रथम पत्रिका
 सबसे पहला हिन्दी-आन्दोलन : हिंदीभाषी प्रदेशों में सबसे पहले बिहार प्रदेश में सन् 1835 में हिंदी आंदोलन शुरू हुआ था। इस अनवरत प्रयास के फलस्वरूप सन् 1875 में बिहार में कचहरियों और स्कूलों में हिंदी प्रतिष्ठित हुई।
 समीक्षामूलक हिन्दी का प्रथम मासिक -- साहित्य संदेश ( आगरा, सन् 1936 से 1942 तक)
 हिन्दी का प्रथम आत्मचरित - अर्धकथानक ( कृतिकार हैं - जैन कवि बनारसीदास (कवि) (वि.सं. १६४३-१७००))
 हिन्दी का प्रथम व्याकरण - 'उक्ति-व्यक्ति-प्रकरण' (दामोदर पंडित)
 हिन्दी व्याकरण के पाणिनी -- किशोरीदास वाजपेयी
 हिन्दी का प्रथम शब्दकोश
 हिन्दी का प्रथम मानक शब्दकोश -- हिंदी शब्दसागर
 हिन्दी का प्रथम विश्वकोश -- हिन्दी विश्वकोश
 हिन्दी का प्रथम कवि - राहुल सांकृत्यायन की हिन्दी काव्यधारा के अनुसार हिन्दी के सबसे पहले मुसलमान कवि अमीर खुसरो नहीं, बल्कि अब्दुर्हमान हुए हैं। ये मुलतान के निवासी और जाति के जुलाहे थे। इनका समय १०१० ई० है। इनकी कविताएँ अपभ्रंश में हैं। -(संस्कृति के चार अध्याय, रामधारी सिंह दिनकर, पृष्ठ ४३१ )
 हिन्दी की प्रथम कहानी - हिंदी की सर्वप्रथम कहानी कौनसी है, इस विषय में विद्वानों में जो मतभेद शुरू हुआ था वह आज भी जैसे का तैसा बना हुआ है. हिंदी की सर्वप्रथम कहानी समझी जाने वाली कड़ी के अर्न्तगत सैयद इंशाअल्लाह खाँ की 'रानी केतकी की कहानी' (सन् 1803 या सन् 1808 ), राजा शिवप्रसाद सितारे हिंद की 'राजा भोज का सपना' (19 वीं सदी का उत्तरार्द्ध), किशोरी लाल गोस्वामी की 'इन्दुमती' (सन् 1900), माधवराव सप्रे की 'एक टोकरी भर मिट्टी' (सन् 1901), आचार्य रामचंद्र शुक्ल की 'ग्यारह वर्ष का समय' (सन् 1903) और बंग महिला की 'दुलाई वाली' (सन् 1907) नामक कहानियाँ आती हैं.
 हिन्दी का प्रथम लघुकथाकार --
 हिन्दी का प्रथम उपन्यास -- 'देवरानी जेठानी की कहानी' (लेखक - पंडित गौरीदत्त ; सन् १८७०) । श्रद्धाराम फिल्लौरी की भाग्यवती और लाला श्रीनिवास दास की परीक्षा गुरू को भी हिन्दी के प्रथम उपन्यस होने का श्रेय दिया जाता है।
 हिंदी का प्रथम विज्ञान गल्प -- ‘आश्चर्यवृत्तांत’ (अंबिका दत्त व्यास ; 1884-1888)
 हिंदी का प्रथम नाटक -- नहुष (गोपालचंद्र , १८४१)
 हिंदी का प्रथम काव्य-नाटक -- ‘एक घूँट’ (जयशंकर प्रसाद ; 1915 ई.)
 हिन्दी का प्रथम ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार विजेता -- सुमित्रानंदन पंत (१९६८)
 हिन्दी साहित्य का प्रथम इतिहास - भक्तमाल / इस्त्वार द ल लितरेत्यूर ऐन्दूई ऐन्दूस्तानी (अर्थात "हिन्दुई और हिन्दुस्तानी साहित्य का इतिहास", लेखक गार्सा-द-तासी )
 हिन्दी कविता के प्रथम इतिहासग्रन्थ के रचयिता -- शिवसिंह सेंगर ; रचना - शिवसिंह सरोज
 हिन्दी साहित्य का प्रथम व्यवस्थित इतिहासकार -- आचार्य रामचंद्र शुक्ल
 हिन्दी का प्रथम चलचित्र (मूवी) -- सत्य हरिश्चन्द्र
 हिन्दी की पहली बोलती फिल्म (टाकी) -- आलम आरा
 हिन्दी का अध्यापन आरम्भ करने वाला प्रथम विश्वविद्यालय - कोलकाता विश्वविद्यालय (फोर्ट विलियम् कॉलेज)
 देवनागरी के प्रथम प्रचारक -- गौरीदत्त
 हिन्दी का प्रथम चिट्ठा (ब्लॉग) - "हिन्दी" चिट्ठे 2002 अकटूबर में विनय और आलोक ने हिन्दी (इस में अंग्रेज़ी लेख भी लिखे जाते हैं) लेख लिखने शुरू करे, 21 अप्रेल 2003 में सिर्फ हिन्दी का प्रथम चिट्ठा बना "नौ दो ग्यारह", जो अब यहाँ है (संगणकों के हिन्दीकरण से सम्बन्धित बंगलोर निवासी आलोक का चिट्ठा)
 हिन्दी का प्रथम चिट्ठा-संकलक—चिट्ठाविश्व (सन् २००४ के आरम्भ में बनाया गया था)
 अन्तरजाल पर हिन्दी का प्रथम समाचारपत्र - हिन्दी मिलाप / वेबदुनिया
 हिन्दी का पहला समान्तर कोश बनाने का श्रेय -- अरविन्द कुमार व उनकी पत्नी कुसुम
 हिन्दी साहित्य का प्रथम राष्ट्रगीत के रचयिता -- पं. गिरिधर शर्मा ’नवरत्न‘
 हिंदी का प्रथम अर्थशास्त्रीय ग्रंथ -- "संपत्तिशास्त्र" (महावीर प्रसाद द्विवेदी)
 हिन्दी के प्रथम बालसाहित्यकार -- जयप्रकाश भारती
 हिन्दी की प्रथम वैज्ञानिक पत्रिका -- विज्ञान
 सबसे पहली टाइप-आधारित देवनागरी प्रिंटिंग : 1796 में गिलक्रिस्त (John Borthwick Gilchrist) की Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language, Calcutta ; Dick Plukker
 खड़ीबोली के गद्य की प्रथम पुस्तक : लल्लू लाल जी की प्रेम सागर (हिन्दी में भागवत का दशम् स्कन्ध) ; हिन्दी गद्य साहित्य का सूत्रपात करनेवाले चार महानुभाव कहे जाते हैं- मुंशी सदासुख लाल, इंशा अल्ला खाँ, लल्लू लाल और सदल मिश्र। ये चारों सं. 1860 के आसपास वर्तमान थे।
 हिन्दी की प्रथम विज्ञान-विषयक पुस्तक : महेन्द्र भट्टाचार्य द्वारा सन् 1873 में रचित पदार्थ विज्ञान
 एशिया का जागरण विषय पर हिन्दी कविता - सन् 1901 में राधाकृष्ण मित्र ने हिन्दी में एशिया के जागरण पर एक कविता लिखी थी। शायद वह किसी भी भाषा में 'एशिया के जागरण' की कल्पना पर पहली कविता है।

First in INDIA

Architecture
 First Islamic Mausoleum (tomb) in India: Sultan Ghari(Hindi: सुल्तान ग़ारी, Urdu: سلطان غاری), built in 1231 CE for Prince Nasir ud din Mahmud, eldest son of Iltumish.
 First true dome, Alai Darwaza, Qutb complex, Delhi, built in 1311 CE, by first Khilji Sultan of Delhi, Ala-ud-din Khilji.
 First true arch, Balban's tomb, Mehrauli Archeological Park, Delhi, built c. 1287 CE, by Ghiyas ud din Balban of Mamluk dynasty.
 First garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent, also the first with Persian double-dome: Humayun's Tomb, Delhi, built 1562-1571 CE.
 First Mosque in India: Cheraman Juma Masjid Kodungallur (Kerala), built 629-630 A.D by Malik ibn Deenar, an Arab trader on the order of Chera ruler Cheraman Perumal (Tajjudin after conversion to Islam)[1][2]
[edit]Awards and Titles
 Miss World: Reita Faria in 1966
 Miss Asia Pacific: Zeenat Aman in 1970
 Miss Universe: Sushmita Sen in 1994
 Miss Earth: Nicole Faria in 2010
 Dhan Gopal Mukerji, first Indian to win any literary award (the Newbery Medal) in the United States, in 1927 for Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
 Nirad C. Chaudhuri, first Indian to win a major non-fiction award, the Duff Cooper Prize in the United Kingdom, in 1966 for The Continent of Circe
 Arundhati Roy won the Booker prize for her novel "The God of Small Things" in the year 1997 making her the first Indian woman to receive the prestigious award.
 Bhaswati Bhattacharya was the first Indian to speak as Orator at the Harvard University Commencement Exercises in 1993.[3]
 Bharat Ratna: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, and Dr C.V. Raman in 1954
 Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters: Mrinal Sen[4]
 Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters: Sivaji Ganesan
 Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Devika Rani in 1969
 Ashoka Chakra Award to a civilian : D.K. Jatar (posthumous) and M.C Dixit, captain and co-captain respectively, of the sabotaged plane Kashmir Princess, for "most conspicuous bravery, daring and self-sacrifice"
 Magsaysay Award: Vinoba Bhave, 1958
 Stalin Peace Prize (now known as Lenin Peace Prize) in 1952-Saifuddin Kitchlew
 Oscar for Lifetime Achievement - Satyajit Ray
 Nishan-e-Pakistan: Morarji Desai,19 May 1990
 Ford Supermodel of the World (contest): Bipasha Basu, 1996[citation needed][5]
[edit]Nobel Prize
 Nobel Prize winner: Rabindranath Tagore for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913. He was also the first Asian to get the prize.
 Nobel Prize in Physics: C. V. Raman in 1930, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in 1983. (US citizen of Indian origin)
 Nobel Prize in Medicine: Har Gobind Khorana in 1968. (US citizen of Indian origin )
 Nobel Peace Prize: Mother Teresa of calcutta in 1979 (Indian citizen of Albanian origin)
 Nobel Prize in Economics: Amartya Sen in 1998
 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan in 2009 (UK citizen of Indian origin)
[edit]Defence (in the Republic of India)
 Commander-in-Chief of Free India: General Sir Roy Bucher
 Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India: General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949
 Chief of Air Staff: Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst
 Indian Chief of Staff: General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1947
 Commander-in-Chief, IAF: Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, 1954
 Chief of Naval Staff: Vice Admiral R D Katari
 Cosmonaut: Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma, 1984
 Field Marshal: Sam Manekshaw, 1973.
 First Parsi Army Chief: Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
 First Parsi Navy Chief: Admiral J L Cursetji
 First Parsi Air Force Chief: Air Marshal Aspy Engineer
 First Christian Army Chief: General Sunith Francis Rodrigues
 First Christian Navy Chief: Admiral Ronald Lynsdale Pereira
 First Christian Air Force Chief: Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne
 First Sikh Army Chief: General Joginder Jaswant Singh
 First Sikh Air Force Chief: Air Marshal Arjan Singh
 First Muslim Air Force Chief: Air Marshal Idris Hasan Latif
 First female officer to be court martialled: Anjali Gupta
[edit]Economy
 First power plant in India with Soviet Collaboration: Neyveli Lignite Corporation in 1962[6].
 First central PSU to be privatised: Modern Food Industries in January 2000
[edit]Exploration
 Person to fly in a balloon and land in a parachute, and also to take ballooning as a profession: Ram Chandra Chatterjee
 Person to reach the South Pole: Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
 Woman to scale Mount Everest: Bachendri Pal on 23 May 1984. She was the 5th woman in the world to scale the peak.
 Woman to reach South Pole: Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu
 Person to reach the North Pole: Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar
[edit]Film, TV and entertainment
 First Film to be exhibited in India on 7 July 1896, with the Lumiere Brothers' Cinematography, unveiling six silent short films at the Watson's Hotel in Bombay, viz., Entry of Cinematographe, The Sea Bath, Arrival of a Train, A Demolition, Ladies & Soldiers on Wheels and Leaving the Factory.
 First silent film to be made in India Raja Harishchandra 1913, by Dadasaheb Phalke
 Sound film: Alam Ara (1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani,[7] 1931, First Talkie actress:Zubeida
 Colour film: Kisan Kanya (1937), directed by Moti B. Gidvani.
 Banned film: Neel Akasher Neechey (1959) .[8]
 cinemascope film: Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959)[9][10]
 Oscar for Lifetime Achievement: Satyajit Ray (1992)
 Film to win highest number of international awards: Pather Panchali (1955) eleven awards, including Cannes
 Films to be considered as All-Time 100 best movies: Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito (1956) and Apur Sansar(1959)) by Satyajit Ray
 Oscar winner: Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982
 Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film: Mother India in 1957
 Music director to win an Oscar and first double Oscar winner-Mr. A. R. Rahman for Slumdog Millionaire, 22 February 2009.
 Sound engineer to win an Oscar: Resul Pookutty for Slumdog Millionaire, 22 February 2009
 Palme d'Or at 1946 Cannes Film Festival:Neecha Nagar directed by Chetan Anand
 National Film Award for cinema: Shyamchi Aai in 1954
 Colorized film: Mughal-e-Azam in 2004 (the original black-and-white version was released in 1960)
 Sponsored TV serial: Hum Log, started on 7 July 1984, was also the first soap opera of India, ran for 156 episodes
 Guinness Book of World Records in the category Fewest actors in a narrative film: Yaadein (1964) directed and acted by Sunil Dutt[11]
 Actor to enact 10 roles: Kamal Haasan
 Actress to enact 10 roles = Priyanka Chopra plays 12 different characters in Bollywood film-"What's Your Raashee?"
 3-D film: My Dear Kuttichathan, a Malayalam film, produced in 1984, dubbed in Hindi as Chhota Chetan.
 70 mm film: Around the World in Eight Dollars, a Hindi film, starring Raj Kapoor and Rajshree in 1967
 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (officer of the order of arts and letters): Director: Mrinal Sen (1985); Actor:Sivaji Ganesan (1995); Actress: Sharmila Tagore(2004)
 Hindi film screened at the United Nations: Lage Raho Munna Bhai on 10 November 2006
 First music record was recorded by Gauhar Jaan[12] singing a khayal in Raag Jogiya,[13] recorded on 2 November 1902, by Fred Gaisberg, assistant to Emile Berliner, the father ofGramophone record.[14]
[edit]Governance========================================================================
 President: Rajendra Prasad (1950–1962)
 First Women President: Pratibha Patil(2007-till date)
 First Vice-President: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
 Prime Minister: Jawaharlal Nehru (1947–1964). India held its first constitutional elections in 1952 after which he was re-elected
 Deputy Prime Minister: Vallabhbhai Patel (1947–1950)
 Leader of Opposition: AK Gopalan
 Prime Minister to be voted out of office: Indira Gandhi (1977) when the Indian National Congress lost to the Janata Party
 Non-Congress government: by Janata Party with Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister (1977–1980)
 Non-Congress State government with Majority by a single party: E. M. S. Namboodiripad of CPI, Kerala 1957
 Prime Minister to lead a minority government for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
 Person outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as Prime Minister for a full term (five years): P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 June 1991 – 16 May 1996
 Prime Minister from South India: P. V. Narasimha Rao, 1991
 Governor-General: Warren Hastings
 The first Viceroy of India was Lord Canning,1858.
 Governor General of Independent India: Lord Mountbatten, 1947
 Indian Governor-General of Indian Union: C Rajagopalachari, 1948
 Chief Justice of India: H. J. Kania (1947–1951)
 First Sikh Prime Minister : Manmohan Singh(2004–Till date)
 First Muslim President : Zakir Hussain (1967–1969)
 First Sikh President : Giani Zail Singh
 Indian ICS Officer: Satyendranath Tagore, 1863
 Speaker of Lok Sabha: G.V. Mavlankar (1952–1956)
 Finance Minister of Independent India: R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty (1947–1949), for others see First Indian Cabinet
 Presentation of First Budget after India's Independence : R. K. Shanmukhan Chetty on 26 November 1947
 First Home Minister of India: Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel[15]
 First Indian Chief Minister to die in Office: C.N.Annadurai, Tamil Nadu
 First Indian President to die in Office: Dr Zakir Hussain, 3 May 1969
 First Indian Prime Minister to resign from office: Morarji Desai, 1979
 First Woman Cabinet Minister in India: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
 First Woman Minister in India: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
 First Woman Chief Minister: Sucheta Kriplani
 First Female Home Minister: Sabitha Indra Reddy in Andhra Pradesh Govt..
 Youngest ever Chief Minister: M. O. H. Farook, Puducherry, at the age of 29
 First Woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
 First Woman Finance Minister of State Government in India: Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab Govt.
[edit]Science
 Hydroelectric plant: On the Gaganachukki waterfall of the Sivasamudram Falls, Mysore Kingdom. Built in 1902.
 Place to get electricity: Calcutta[16][17][18][19] in 1898 and Mysore kingdom in 1902 (it was the second city in Asia to get electricity after Tokyo, Japan.)
 Man in space:Rakesh Sharma aboard Soyuz T-11, on 3 April 1984. He was the 138th man in space worldwide.
 Woman in space:Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on 19 November 1997. She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.
 Test-tube baby: Durga Agarwal, born 1978
 Scientific Expedition to Antarctica: 1981
 Nuclear Reactor: CIRUS, Mumbai, Maharashtra
 First Genetically Modified Food Product in India : Bt. Egg plant Hybrid (Bt. -- Bacilius thuringiensis)
 Satellite : Aryabhata, launched on 19 April 1975
 Satellite dedicated exclusively for educational services : EDUSET
 Successfully indigenous launch vehicle : SLV-3
 Prospective space tourist: Santhosh George Kulangara, proposed in 2009 aboard Virgin Galactic
 Cloned Animal : Bhass, sampura
 In 1850, the first experimental electric telegraph line was started between Kolkata and Diamond Harbor. In 1851, it was opened for the use of the British East India Company
 1854: Telegraph service opened to the Public
 First telephone exchange: On 28 January 1882, Major E. Baring, Member of the Governor General of India's Council declared open the Telephone Exchanges in Calcutta, Bombay andMadras. The exchange in Calcutta named the "Central Exchange", was opened at third floor of the building at 7, Council House Street, with a total of 93 subscribers. Later that year, Bombay also witnessed the opening of a telephone exchange.
 1902 - First wireless telegraph station established between Sagar Islands and Sandheads.
 1907 - First Central Battery of telephones introduced in Kanpur.
 1913-1914 - First Automatic Exchange installed in Shimla.
 1927 - Radio-telegraph system between the UK and India, with Imperial Wireless Chain beam stations at Khadki and Daund. Inaugurated by Lord Irwin on 23 July by exchanging greetings with King George V.
 1933 - Radiotelephone system inaugurated between the UK and India.
 1953 - 12 channel carrier system introduced.
 1960 - First subscriber trunk dialing route commissioned between Lucknow and Kanpur.
 1975 - First PCM system commissioned between Mumbai City and Andheri telephone exchanges.
 1976 - First digital microwave junction introduced.
 1979 - First optical fibre system for local junction commissioned at Pune.
 1980 - First satellite earth station for domestic communications established at Secunderabad, A.P..
 1983 - First analog Stored Program Control exchange for trunk lines commissioned at Mumbai.
 1984 - First Underground Metro Railways System at Calcutta.
 1984 - C-DOT established for indigenous development and production of digital exchanges.
 1995 - First mobile telephone service started on non-commercial basis on 15 August 1995 in Delhi.
[edit]Medical Science
 First Ever Rhinoplasty noted in world/India: Over Ksatji a british soldier by a Kumhar Vaidya.
[edit]Sport
 Indian to swim across the English Channel: Mihir Sen, 1958
 Woman to swim across the English Channel: Arati Saha, 1959
 Formula One race driver: Narain Karthikeyan
 Formula One team: Force India F1
 A1 GP race victory: Narain Karthikeyan, Zhuhai, China, 2007
 Person to equal world record in Archery: Limba Ram, 1992
 Person to walk across the Mongolian Gobi Desert of 1626 kilometers in 51 days 11 hours 40 minutes: Sucheta Kadethankar in Mongolia in 2011.
 Ashish Kumar is the first Indian to win a medal in both Asian games(November 12 to 27 November 2010, Guangzhou(China)) and Commonwealth games(Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010). He won Bronze medal in both games.
 Shiva Keshavan is the first Indian to win a Gold Medal for India in Winter sports at the Asia Cup in Japan on 18 December 2011. The Asian Champion is also a 4 time Olympian and has set the new Asian speed record on ice at 134.3 kmph.
[edit]Olympics
 Olympic team medal: Gold for Hockey at the 1928 Summer Olympics Amsterdam, beating the Netherlands.
 Olympic Individual medal (in British India): Silver by Norman Pritchard for 200 metres races at the 1900 Summer Olympics, Paris. (This is disputed however. The IOC claims he participated for India. The IAAF records him as participant for Great Britain.)
 Olympic Individual medal: Bronze by K. D. Jadhav for wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics Helsinki.
 Olympic Bronze medallist in Tennis: Leander Paes in Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
 Olympic Individual medal by a woman: Bronze by Karnam Malleswari for weightlifting 54 kg class, at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sydney.
 Olympic Silver medal: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore for Men's Double Trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athens.
 Olympic Individual gold medal: Abhinav Bindra for 10 m Air Rifle at the 2008 Summer Olympics Beijing.
 Olympic Bronze medallist in Boxing:Vijender Kumar in Beijing Olympics 2008.
 Olympic Bronze medallist in Wrestling: Sushil Kumar in Beijing Olympics 2008.
[edit]Chess
 Chess Grandmaster : Male - Vishwanathan Anand, 1988.
 Female - Koneru Humpy - 2002 - She was also the youngest woman to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.(Hou Yifan of China is the youngest woman to become a grandmaster at 14years and 6 months.)
[edit]Tennis
 Grand Slam title: Mahesh Bhupathi (partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 1997 French Open.
 Woman to win a match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open
 Woman to reach 4th round (highest as of 2009) of a Grand Slam singles event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.
 Woman to win a Grand Slam title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi) in the Mixed Doubles category of the 2009 Australian Open.
 Grand Slam junior title: Leander Paes in the Singles category of the 1990 Wimbledon Championship.
 Grand Slam junior title by a woman: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.
[edit]Cricket
 Cricket tournament: The Bombay Triangular (1905–1911) which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912–1936)
 Cricket test match: Against England at Lord's, 25 June 1932
 One day Cricket captain: [Ajit Laxman Wadekar]
 Test Cricket captain: C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England
 Indian to score an ODI century was Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup
 Indian to score an ODI double century is Sachin Tendulkar, 200* against South Africa at Gwalior, 24 February 2010
 Cricketer to score a century: Lala Amarnath, 118 against England in December 1933 at Bombay Gymkhana grounds
 Cricketer to score a double century: Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56
 Cricketer to score a triple century: Virender Sehwag, 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004.
 ODI cricket hat-trick: Chetan Singh against Australia in March 2001
 Cricket World Cup championship win: At the 1983 Cricket World Cup, India beating West Indies, and at the 2011 Cricket World Cup, India beating Sri Lanka.
 Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Test cricket: Sunil Gavaskar (he was first in the world to achieve this feat)
 Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODI cricket: Sachin Tendulkar (he was first in the world to achieve this feat)
 Cricket Twenty20 world cup winner: India in 2007.
 Cricketer to score 100 centuries in Test and ODIs combined: Sachin Tendulkar
 First bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings: Anil Kumble against Pakistan
 First batsman to score 50 centuries in Test Cricket : Sachin Tendulkar
 First woman to score a double hundred in test cricket : Mithali Raj [214* against Newzealand at Wellington 2004] (she was first in the world to achieve this feat)
 First time six sixes in an over of a T-20 match were scored by an Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh against England
[edit]Women
 Graduates: Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
 Head of an Undergraduate Academic Institution: Chandramukhi Basu, 1888
 Honours Graduate: Kamini Roy (1886)
 Court martialled: Anjali Gupta in 2005
 Lawyer: Cornelia Sorabjee (1892) also the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman in the world to read law at Oxford.
 Photojournalist: Homai Vyarawalla (1913)[20]
 Doctorate of Science: Asima Chatterjee (1944)
 Chief Justice of a High Court (Himachal Pradesh): Leila Seth, 1991
 Supreme Court judge: Kumari Fathima Beevi
 High Court Judge : Anna Chandy
 Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly : Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 1953
 Physician: Kadambini Ganguly, 1886
 Airline Pilot: Durba Banerjee
 In space: Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on 19 November 1997. She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event.
 Nobel Prize winner: Mother Teresa of calcutta in 1979 (Albanian born Indian citizen)
 Women Railway Minister :Mamata Banerjee.
 Monarch of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultan (1205–1240) of Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi)
 Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi, 1966
 Minister in a government: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur in the Ministry of Health
 Chief Minister of a State: Sucheta Kripalani, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, 1963–1967
 Governor: Sarojini Naidu, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, 1947–1949
 Central Minister (in pre-independent India): Vijayalakshmi Pandit, minister of local self-government and public health, 1937
 Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Meira Kumar
 Indian National Congress President: Annie Besant
 President: Pratibha Patil, 2007
 IPS Officer Kiran Bedi
 Asian Games gold medal winner: Kamlijit Sandhu
 The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest : Bachendri Pal, 1984
 Chess Grandmaster: Koneru Humpy, 2002. She was also the youngest woman in the world to become a grandmaster at 15 years old.
 To win 1st round match in a Grand Slam event: Nirupama Vaidyanathan beat Italian Gloria Pizzichini in the first round of the 1998 Australian Open
 To reach 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Grand Slam event: Sania Mirza in the Singles category of the 2005 US Open.
 Grand Slam junior title: Sania Mirza (partnering with Russian Alisa Kleybanova) in the Doubles category of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships.
 State Finance Minister: Dr Upinderjit Kaur, in Punjab : October, 2010
 Paris Cycling Event : Divya Tate(44) : August, 2011[21]
 The first Indian woman pilot: Harita Kaur Deol becomes the first Indian woman pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF), on a solo flight in 1994.
 To Cross Gobi Desert : Sucheta Kadethankar(33) :2011[22]
 First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, popularly known as P. T. Usha[23]
[edit]Places
 District to achieve 100% literacy rate: Ernakulam district, Kerala, 1990
 City/town to achieve 100% literacy rate: Kottayam, Kerala, 1989
 District to achieve 100% literacy rate and lowest population growth rate: Pathanamthitta district, Kerala
 District to be polio-free: Pathanamthitta district, Kerala
 District to achieve tobacco free: Kottayam district, Kerala, 27 September 2008
 District to become India's 'total electrified district': Palakkad, Kerala, 2011
 City to have an e-court: Ahmedabad, 8 February 2009
[edit]Transport
 First Passenger Train: between Mumbai and Thane on 16 April 1853
 First suburban railway line: Mumbai Suburban Railway in 1857
 First rapid transit (Metro) rail: Kolkata Metro in 1984
 First Motorcar: in 1897, Mr Forster of Crompton Greaves
 First Motorcar in regular use, in 1901, Francis Spring, Chennai
 First Indians to own a motor car: Jamshedji Tata 1901 and Rustom Cama, Parsi Lawyer 1901
 First competitive event Delhi-Bombay trials 1905 at the behest of Lord Curzon and Motor Union of Western India to test the suitability of the Automobile for Indian roads and to facilitate interaction between the fledging Automobile Industry and prospective Indian clients[24][25][26][27][28]
 Oldest surviving and running cars in India: De Dion Bouton 1904, Rover 1905
 First woman to drive a car in India: Suzanne RD Tata 1905
 First Motor Taxi Mumbai, 1911
 First largescale import of motor cars: Relatively large contingent of motorcars imported for the Delhi Darbar held in 1911 to mark the arrival of King George V[29]
 First registration scheme for motor vehicles in India: 1912
 Arrival of mass production technology makes the Automobile a practical means of transport by the 1920s and most British officers had cars
 First Assembly of motor cars: General Motors sets up the first assembly unit to assemble cars from imported parts in 1928. The National Series AB sedan is produced.
 First manufacture of motor cars: Hindustan Motors begins production of cars in 1942. Premier automobiles and Standard Motors setup. Technology stagnates as a result of economic autarky as India is isolated from the rest of the world
 First act leading to liberalization of the Auto sector: Maruti 800 launched in 1983 and the automotive industry is progressively liberalized
 First fully indegenous passenger car developed in India, Tata Indica launched in 1998
 First expressway: Mumbai-Pune Expressway in 2000
 First major acquisition of a foreign company by an Indian company: Tata Motors acquires Jaguar and Land Rover in 2007. Mahindra Automotive emerges as the top bidder for SSangsyong motors in 2010
 First world-famous automotive product designed and developed in India. Tata Nano launched in 2008
 First aeroplane in India Maharaja of Patiala 1910[30]
 Domestic commercial aviation is born in India in 1911 when on 18 February, Henri Piquet, flying a Humber biplane, carries mall from Allahabad to Naini Junction, some six miles away.
 1927: India's first airline, Imperial Airways, extends its Empire Routes to India, connecting India with the outside world for the first time through an air network. A de Havilland Hercules flies the Cairo-Basra-Karachi-Jodhpur-Delhi route. It is also the first domestic passenger flight to be operated in India. Passengers could be for the first time fly from Karachi to Jodhpurand to Delhi on Imperial Airways.
 On 10 February 1929, JRD Tata is awarded India's first pilot licence, Pilot Licence No.1 by Federation Aeronotique International signed by Sir Victor Sasoon on behalf of the Aero Club of India and Burma.
 1932: Urmila K Parikh becomes the first woman to get a pilot licence when she is given an a licence by the Aero Club of India and Burma.
 1932: JRD Tata launches India's first scheduled airline, Tata Airlines, by piloting the first flight himself from Karachi to Bombay via Ahmedabad on a single-engine Puss Moth with a load of airmail.
[edit]Others
 Wax statue of a living Indian: Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in 1939
 Newspaper : Hickey's Bengal Gazette in 1779
 Exclusive internet magazine: Bharat Samachar[citation needed]
 Miss India to participate in Miss Universe: Indrani Rahman in the Miss Universe 1952 Pageant at Long Beach, California
 President of the Indian National Congress: W C Bonnerjee, 1885
 Graduate in Medicine: Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty

important facts

# Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

# The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
# The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
# Ants never sleep!
# When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
# Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
# An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
# “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
# Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage and the bone hardens between the ages of 2 and 6 years.
# Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
# Butterflies taste with their feet.
# A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
# It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
# Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
# Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
# No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
# Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
# Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
# Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
# The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
# The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
# The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
# The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
# The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
# Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.
# TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
# You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
# Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.
# Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
# The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
# A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why!
# The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes – he was an albino. ’7′ was because the original containers were 7 ounces and ‘UP’ indicated the direction of the bubbles.
# Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system.
# Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
# There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
# If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
# Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves.
# The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
# By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
# Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.
# Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
# Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”.
# The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
# Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
# The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.”
# All Polar bears are left-handed.
# In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
# “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
# Almonds are a member of the peach family, and apples belong to the rose family.
# Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
# The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”.
# In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
# Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
# Alfred Nobel, in whose name the Nobel prizes are instituted, was the inventor of dynamite.
# The planet Venus does not tilt, so consequently, it has no seasons. It is the only planet that rotates clock-wise.
# Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.
# The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
# Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.
# Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they’ve been removed.
# US President John F. Kennedy was an accomplished ventriloquist.
# Coca-Cola was originally green.
# Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
# Contrary to popular belief, the white is not the healthiest part of an egg. It’s actually the shell.
# Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
# Hot water will turn into ice faster then cold water.
# “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
# Like fingerprints, every person’s tongue print is different.
# No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
# The tongue is the only muscle that is attached from one end only.
# Pumice is the only rock that floats in water.
# Camel’s milk does not curdle.
# Your foot is the same length as your forearm, and your thumb is the same length as your nose. Also, the length of your lips is the same as the index finger.
# Natural pearls melt in vinegar.
# Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
# The human brain is 80% water.
# Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right while women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
# Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
# The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt holds a constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
# The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
# Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age.
# It takes approximately 2 million flowers for a bee to make 1 pound of honey.
# Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
# It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.
# The letter J does not appear anywhere in the periodic table of the elements.
# The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart.
# Watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in Africa.
# The hair of some cancer patients treated with chemotherapy can grow back in a different colour, and sometimes even be curly or straight.
# The markings that are found on dice are called “pips.”
# 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
# The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
# Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.
# The ampersand (&) was the last letter of the Latin alphabet.
# The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow hair.
# Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time, as they sleep with one eye open.
# Each nostril of a human being registers smell in a different way. Those by the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.
# The longest single-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
# The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah-Mat,” which means “the king is dead”.
# Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:  Spades – King David, Clubs – Alexander the Great, Hearts – Charlemagne, and Diamonds – Julius Caesar.
# In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered!
# If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

IMPORTANT 1

Questions:
1.  About which music group did the legendary Phil Spector remark “ The only difference between a pornographic movie and them is that the pornographic movie has better music”?
The Spice girls
2.  Who is also known by the title ‘Guardian of the Eastern Dark’?
The Phantom
3.  The Leonid showers were meteors formed due to mass shed by which comet?
Temple Tuttle
4.  His wife said of him “he is frightened of the titles and degrees on peoples visiting cards” and his card reads ‘ senior shoe salesman’. Who?
Thomas J. Bata
5.  It is called ‘deuce’ in English, ‘egalite’ in French. What is it in German?
‘Einstein’
6.  So sure were the distributors of the success of this film , that they split up the film into 20 minute segments for a kids morning show. Which film?
Star Wars
7.  If you were engaged in an altercation with a friend and he gave you a ‘circum orbital Hemotopo’ what would you have?
A Black Eye
8.  What is referred to as ‘blue sky research’ ?
Wasting money on research to find out why the sky is blue etc. etc.
9.  What do psychologists define as ‘a disorder in which strongly felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longing often of a perverse nature’ ?
Love
10.  Locals affectionately refer to it as ‘bobby’. It is 90 ft long, has a sinuous body, tail, snake like head and a long neck. What?
The Loch Ness Monster
11.  According to legend Allah has 1001 names. To be good men, men need know only 1000 names. Who is the only one to know all 1001 names?
The Camel
12.  What contribution did a vague movie by name ‘Rooplekha’ make to Indian cinema?
First movie to feature a flashback sequence
13.  The word ‘stadium’ comes from ‘stade’ a unit of distance. What distance was the unit equal to?
The distance that Hercules could run in a single  breath
14.  In Asterix comics Unhygienix buys a plot of land from Obelix. How do we supposedly know this land today?
The Stonehenge
15.  It was believed that the devil was present at all important occasions during the medieval period. What practice arose from this?
The practise of toasting a drink, since it was believed that the clinking sound of glasses resembled a church bell’s ring and that sound would drive the devil away.
16.  When King George first met him he asked him ‘Tell me , how did you pee’? Who are we talking about?
Sir Charles Lindbergh
17.  What is common to hearty, Patiala, silent, cocktail, open heart, dancing and round?
All types of Laughter
18.  In medieval times, in Europe, 1/3 of taxes went to the King, 1/3 to the nobility and 1/3 to the common man. How is this immortalised?
By the nursery rhyme ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’
19.  Born with the body of a mastiff, looks of a lamb, teeth of a bunny rabbit and is one of those mutations that happen when God plays dice. Who or What are we talking about?
Ronaldo, the footballer
20.  This bird has the unique distinction of being called by the names of two different countries in different parts of the world. Give both names.
As the Turkey in the rest of the world  and as Peru in Turkey
21.  “There was neither non-exist nor exist. There was neither the realm of space nor the sky beyond”. Opening lines of what?
The Rig Veda
22.  In February 1935, the superpolyamide formed from hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid was made by Du Pont. How do we know this compound better?
As Nylon
23.  This person wrote about himself thus :"Principal virtues : keeps his nails clean. Principal faults : that he has no family, is bad tempered and has a poor digestion. One and only wish : Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin : that he does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life : None". Who?
Sir Alfred Nobel
24.  There's a story that, around 1600, two children were playing with lenses in a shop in Middleburg. What resulted, according to the story, from the game?
Hans Lippershey who observed these children was inspired to invent the Telescope.
25.  What was patented by Hippolyte Mege Mouries in 1869, after he was commissioned by the Victualing Department of the French Navy to find an alternative for butter at a time of acute butter shortage?
Margarine
26.  They began to appear in quantities in the 1860s. "I hate those redbreasts", cried "Punch" in 1869. In 1877 "The Times" magazine declared them a great social evil, and it was following difficulties with them in 1879 that the London Post Office in 1880 cried out "Post Early". What are we talking about?
Christmas Cards
27.  His first voyage, in 1607, was intended to find a quick way to China by way of the North Pole, but resulted instead in the establishment of the Spitzbergen whale fisheries. In 1608, in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he sailed 150 miles past the site of New York, but returned back. In 1610, he explored the site that is now known by his name and was frozen in it. Who?
Henry Hudson after whom the Hudson Bay is named
28.  A man by name Friedrich Froebel, walking with two of his disciples over the Steiger Pass on the way to the village of Blankenburg, scratched his head for the right name to give the institution, and then suddenly shouted out "Eureka ! I have it ! It shall be called _______________!". Fill in the blank.
Kindergarten
29.  Back in 1890, Johnson & Johnson put together the first of its kind in response to a plea from railroad workers who needed treatment on the scene as they toiled to lay tracks across America. What?
First Aid Kits
30.  To the Hopi Indians, who feared it and filled it with frightening myths, it was the trail made by the God Ta-Vwoats when he took a mourning chief to find his wife in the other world; the river associated with it, according to them was an addition to hold back the unworthy. What?
The Grand Canyon
31.  An author, as a sign of gratitude to the nurse who had cared for his firstborn child, gave a script and asked her to sell it when she was in need of money. Years later, when the nurse was really in want of money, she sold it and lived in comfort for the rest of her life. The manuscript was the first part of a famous work of this author Name the book and author?
The Jungle Book and Rudyard Kipling
32.  Though Magellan is regarded as the first person to circumnavigate the world, technically he was not, and it was a person by name Juan Sebastian del Cano, who is technically the first circumnavigator. Why ?
Because Magellan died halfway through the voyage, killed by the natives
33.  In the United States, currently a small stock of this exists at only one location - at the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Some additional stocks are available in Great Britain, Russia and China. Stocks of what ?
The Small Pox Virus
34.  Masaru Ibuka, after graduating in engineering, failed the entry examination for lifetime employment at Toshiba, and decided to start his own small business. He was fortunate to find a partner who had a flair for finance and salesmanship. Who was this partner ? What did they launch?
Akio Morita and Sony
35.  He made his debut as a hero in Shah-E-Nissar and then starred in Durbar with Naseer Banu, Saira Banu’s mother but his carer never took off. His first wife was a woman by name Gwendolyn Rita de Monte. His father was a Pathan and had been honoured for his bravery by Queen Victoria in the Afghan War. His screen name was given to him by K.Amarnath with the release of Bekasoor opposite Madhubala. Who?
Ajit alias Hameed Ali Khan
36.  This person signs his paintings using the corruption of the word ‘Au Fait’ meaning ‘its done’. The name was suggested to him by Frank Dudley Wright. He replaced Gina Lollobrigida as the Guest of Honour at the Carnival celebrations at Rio in 1965 and is the lead singer of the band ‘The 3 quarks’ with Ralph Leighton laying the drums and Tom Rutishauser playing the guitar. Who?
Richard Feynman

37.  Whose epitaph in Newsteed reads ‘To mark a friends’ remains these stones arise, I never knew one and here he is’?
Botswain, Lord Byron's Dog

38.  He created the first universe(different from the present world) and his personal scribe is Weneg. His eternal enemy is represented by a giant serpent. He is always represented with Uraeus the asp who spits flame and destroys god’s enemies. Who?
Ra, the sun god
39.  “My debts amount to 3000, 300 to the Jews, 800 to Mrs. B of Nottingham, to the coachmaker and the other tradesmen a 1000 more and these must be increased before they are lessened.” To his lawyers he wrote on April 26, 1809. ‘The whole of my wishes are summed up in thes procure me, either of my own or borrowed of others , 3000 pounds,…. Allow me to depart from this cursed country and I promise to turn Mussalman rather than return to it.’ Whose words?
Lord Byron
40.  The Teary Folliculties disease is quite prevalent among the youth of this generation. If you were suffering from it what would be the cause of this disease?
Wearing tight jeans
41.  Born in Pasadena, he was arrested for a minor offence when he was 20. In prison he wrote a book about these experiences called ‘They tortured me to hell’. After release he went back with the name James Clark because he was afraid that the KGB would assassinate him. Who?

42.  The publication of the first supplement of the Oxford Dictionary was postponed for one particular reason. What?
To include the word Bodyline
43.  What instigated Paul Delaroche to quip, ‘from today paintings are dead’?
The invention of Photography
44.  What is the claim to fame of Marcel Marceaus’ utterance ‘Non’ I  the history of cinema?
Only spoken word in "The Silent Movie'

45.  An author was reading the Times Literary Supplement which carried a review of ‘Human Bondage’. The author, impressed by the review took the name of his next book from it. Who and book?
Somerset Maugham and ‘The Moon and Sixpence’
46.  An illegitimate son of a nobleman he craved for the Royal recognition he could never get from the upper classes. Trained as  a chemist and a mineralogist his achievements include analysis of Zinc ores one of which, ZnCo3 is named after him. Who?
Jjames Smithson of Smithsonite fame

47.  In the old theatres a mixture of CaCO3 and Phosphorous was used to produce effects on stage. Which phrase originates from this?
The term ‘In the limelight’
48.  This person was almost exchanged at birth with a Koli fisherman’s family. Fatefully he was reunited with his mother when the resident doctor cracked the case of the missing mole on the bottom. He recalls the incident and muses on the possibilities of fishing in Mahim, if not for the doctor. Who?
Sunil Gavaskar
49.  A particular hill range in Orissa is a haven for Botanists and home of some of the rarest herbs in the world and attracts experts from all over the world who conduct research there. How do we know this hill?
The Gandhamadhana Hill from where Hanuman obtained the Sanjeevani herb
50.  What did Oliver Pollock create to be first used by the US on 1st April 1778?
The '$' sign

51.  The Chinese have ideograms to represent ideas. What does the one with ’two women under the same roof’ represent?
Trouble
52.  Why were Edgar Rice Burroughs’ books banned in the USA for a large part of their published life?
Because tarzan and Jane were unmarried and therefore living in sin
53.  ‘I don’t know who you are or what you do, but I ‘am gonna get you’. Who to whom?
Deep blue to Gary Kasparov.
54.  In cyber lingo what does ‘PEFKUSH’ stand for?
Push Every Fucking Key Until Something Happens
55.  The walk of this animal is supposed to be sensuous to look from behind that there are instances in ancient Hindu literature asking women to follow the walk of this animal. Who is the latest woman to join this bandwagon?
Madhuri Dixit (Gaj Gamini)
56.  ‘She is older than the rocks among which she has been dead many times and has learned the secrets of the grave and has been a diver in the deep seas and keep their falling days about her’. Mark quoted about her saying “She has the look of a woman who has had just her husband for dinner’. Who?
The Monalisa
57.  The MIT students calculated my speed to be around 1046 km/sec, bout 3000 times the speed of light. The total load weight involved in my transfer is 321000 tonnes. 214000 living organisms of the same species are involved in my transfer. I have 918 million destinations to reach in 31 hours across 24 time zones visiting 822.6 destinations per second. Who or what am I?
Santa Claus
58.  Who were the models for the campaign for safe sex initiated by Johnny condoms, the adline being ‘Appearances can be deceptive. Use Johnny condoms’.
Prince Charles and Lady Diana
59.  What instrument was originally invented as a torture device to pull out nails?
The Screwdriver
60.  Many objects in India are trademarked with the ISI stamp. What is trademarked ISI No.1?
The National Flag
61.  ‘There is no God and Mohammed is the Prophet of God’ Where would you find this inscribed?
On the Saudi Arabian National Flag
62.  50 colonials and members of the committee of correspondence met at the home of a printer named Benjamin Edes at but 4 P.M. on Dec. 16, 1773. Later that evening they drank from a massive punch bowl of rum concoction which Peter, Edes’ son kept filled. After that they left to do what?
They attended the Boston Tea Party
63.  A New York stock broker Bill W on a business trip to Akron met Doctor Bob in a pub on Jun 10, 1935 and discussed the horrible brawls they had in pubs. They decided they should do something sand about it. What id they do the next day?
Founded Alcoholics Anonymous
64.  A total of 321,360 persons viewed his body as it lay in state at Westminster Hall for 3 days. Crowds stood 5 to 10 hours in bitter cold to see the procession to St. Paul’s Cathedral for the first ever state funeral accorded  to a commoner in 50 years. Who?
Winston Churchill
65.  On Aug 9, 1945 the US Army Air Force HQ radio station received a message from a 25 year old major in the force. It said ‘What have we done’? Who sent the message and why?
Paul Tibbeths who bombed Hiroshima
66.  The result of an experiment at MIT went - ‘Specimen X had a specific gravity of 1.00 Specimen Y had a specific gravity of 1.06. Specific gravity of XLY. Hence QED’. What did the experiment prove?
That Blood is thicker than Water
67.  The Texas theatre was featuring a B grade war movie ‘War is Hell’ starring Tony Russell. A man ducked into the theatre without paying the admission and drew attention from the staff. He was arrested  for this. who?
Lee Harvey Oswald

68.  The novel begins in 1648 and tells the story of Carl Emannuel Madruzzo who is the Archbishop of Trent and Prince of Trentino and of his mistress of 20 years Claudia Particella whose father is the Archbishop’s closest friend and counsellor. The peasants and priests hate Claudia and want them banished. They feel that this would make Madruzzo a better man but Madruzzo is hell bent on marrying Claudia. Name the novel or author.
Mussolini - 'Cardinal's Mistress'

69.  His main foe was sexual passion. He tried various methods of restraint. He devised various methods, the most used amongst them being the ‘earth treatment’. Consisting of application of clear earth moistened with cold water and spread on fine linen on the abdomen and at bedtime and removed it in the day, supposed to be a radical care. Who devised this method?
Mahatma Gandhi
70.  What was begun on 19th June, 1969 in a flat by 6 like-minded people in Bombay?
The Shiv Sena
71.  The SB company is marketing the Bengali version  of Paul Robson’s ‘We are in the same boat brother’. Who has rendered this version?
Saurav Ganguly
72.  The Andhra Bank is the only bank in the country licensed to sell food products. Funda?
It sells Tirupati Laddoos
73.  What connects Calcutta, San Fransisco, tennis courts and Apache Indian?
Tramlines

74.  How does the popular pharmaceutical brand Disprin get its name?
Dissolvable Aspirin hence Dispirin
75.  Built in 1920 by Count Zborowski on his estate near Canterbury ,England, she had a pre 1914 war chain drive, 75 horsepower, Mercedes chassis which was installed with a 6 cylinder Maybach Aero engine, same type as used in Zeppelins. She had a gray steel body with an immense polished hood 8 ft in length and weighed over 5 tons. In 1921 she won the 100 mph ghost handicap at Brooklands and again in 1922, the Lightning Ghost handicap. But in that year she met with an accident and she never raced again. What?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
76.  The abode of the gods was the summit of Mt. Olympus in Thessaly. A  Gate of clouds was kept by a set of goddesses who opened the doors of celestials to earth and welcomed them on return. Name them.
The Seasons
77.  Callisto was converted into an Animal by Juno as Jove was captivated by her beauty. One day she was espied but a youth whom she recognised as her son. She was inclined to embrace him but the youth seeing the animal rushing towards him took position to kill it. Jove saw this situation and prevented it. How?
He converted them into the Little Bear and the Great Bear
78.  The Greeks believed that was a circular disc divided into 2 equal parts by sea. They also assumed that around the earth flowed a river its course being from South to North. Which sea?
The Mediterranean
79.  “ A computer program is like a henchman of a ship charting its course through unknown waters”. This statement gave rise to a word. Which word?
Cybernetics
80.  What word was derived from Latin for “To put away or remove flesh’ referring to the abstinence of meat during Lent.
Carnival
81.  The Maha Kumbh Mela occurs 4 times every 12 years in 4 places Hardwar, Ujjain, Prayag and Nasik. Why these four places?
The four places where Garuda spilt Nectar while bringing them from the heavens
82.  The King Daksha had a daughter who committed suicide as she was unable to bear the fact that her husband had not been invited to the great sacrifice when all other Gods were. Who is this and what practice takes its name from her?
Sati and Sati
83.  King Janaka is said to have been the only King to have coined a shloka. Why did he do this?
The shloka recited during Kanyadaana
84.  The sage Bharatha is the author of Natyashastra. But he is believed to have been taught the art by a sage who watched Shiva’s cosmic dance. Name the sage?
Sage Tandu (Therefore Tandava Nritya)
85.  It is composed of 3 parts. Each is made up of 9 twisted strands. It can be made only from cotton, hemp or wool depending on strata. What?
The Sacred Thread or ‘Poonal’
86.  In 1456, the first known book to be printed movable type in Europe was brought out in Mainz, Germany. Which book?
The Gutenberg Bible
87.  This French princess was slain by her incestuous father and is the patron saint of the insane. Who?
Demphna
88.  What first appeared in the newspaper ‘Belle life in London’ in 1835?
The first Chess column
89.  It was created by Ub Iwerks who gave its voice too. Later its voice was given by James McDonald. It first appeared on Jan 13, 1930 with Floyd Gottfredson as writer of the column. Bob Lampett designed the doll version of it. What?
Mickey Mouse

90.  Which instrument meaning ‘3 stringed’ in Persian was introduced by a resident of Etah district in UP. He was called Hindu Turk in his home town. Who?
Amir Khusro
91.  How do we know Atah Mohammed Khan, husband of Hussaini, a maid in the service of Queen Mriganayanee, the widow of the king of Gwalior better?
Tansen
92.  In the world of comics what is the Mabel Syrup’s claim to fame?
Author of Calvin's favourite book ' Hamster Yoiee and Goeey Kablooie'

93.  In the 18th century, wealthy visitors thoroughly enjoyed the mineral springs and baths in a village in South East Belgium near the German Border. What was the village called?
Spa
94.  This book originally came out with the adline “ A full vacations’ reading for $3” but didn’t sell because $3 was considered too expensive for it. Then it became a best seller with its alternative adline. Book or new adline?
Gone with the Wind
95.  Who was the first sportsman to be given a memorial service at the Westminster Abbey?
Sir Frank Worell

96.  ‘If you understand ______ completely, we failed. We wanted to raise few more questions than we answered. ‘
 Who about what?
Arthur C. Clarke on 2001-A Space Odyssey
97.  He was the first sportsman to have ever modelled for any product. The product was Coleman’s Mustard. Who?
W.G.Grace

98.  She began studying drama at the age of 11 and her first acting job was dancing with the Honey monster in a commercial for Sugar Puff cereal. Who?
Kate Winslet
99.  This singer. For $8 an hour used to smoke cigarettes for a scientific experiment at UCLA. Who?
Axl Rose

100.  In 1969, a world famous personality challenged Broadway in a musical version of ‘By time Buck White’, a play which described the turmoil that ensues when the militant dynamic hero arrives at the address of the beautiful Allelujah Day Soe. It flopped after running for 7 days. Who was the hero?
Mohammed Ali

101.  Her ashes were scattered by plane over Marvin County and in her will she left $2500 ‘so that my friends can get blown when I am gone’. Who?
Janis Joplin
102.  The legend of Romulus and Remus being suckled by the wolf has inspired two literary characters of the present day. Name both.
Mowgli and tarzan
103.  This phrase comes into the language during medieval times where signatures in a petition were placed in a circle so as not to reveal the order in which they were signed. Which phrase?
Round Robin
104.  Maine Pyar Kiya was released as “When Love Calls’ in English. What was released as ‘Me stud, you dud’?
Main Khiladi Tu Anadi
105.  Hayby Mills who played twins in the ‘Parent Trap’ is the parent of musical son Crispian Mills. Which band?
Kula Shaker

106.   It was banned in Iran for 2 reasons, one that it runs counter to Islamic spirit. The other that it  damages the hips. What?
Rock and Roll
107.  What was started as a result of a discovery made by Mackay, Fair O’Brien and Flood.?
The Gold Rush

108.  During the American Civil War, temporary Telegraph wires were set up on trees for speedy processing of info. Which phrase came as a result of this?
From the Grapevine
109.  Which consumer good gets its name from the Latin word for ‘Vigour’?
Vim
110.  The poem “The old man’s daughter’ and how he gained them by Robert Southey has been parodied by a famous author. The parody being more famous than the original. Which one?
Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland
111.  Whose motto is ‘Best Care Anywhere’?
MASH 4077

112.  Which magazine’s first issue carried a special message from the editor on the cover saying “Please buy this magazine’?
MAD
113.  IN 1932, Japan planned to kill 2 Americans with a view of provoking them to war. One was Joseph Curran, the American Ambassador. Who Was the other?
Charlie Chaplin
114.  The title of which music album was inspired by a series of paintings by Hiroshima survivors?
U2's Unforgettable Fire

115.  Which music group gets its name from a sadomasochistic novel by Michael Leigh?
Velvet Underground

116.  During the Gulf War, all low brow condom manufacturing companies in the US received major bulk orders resulting in a great financial rejuvenation. Why were these bulk orders placed all of a sudden?
To prevent sand from getting into the nozzles of Guns
117.  Which English word comes from Cambridge slang for room or chamber mate?
Chum
118.  ‘He who paints the sky Green and the grass blue must be sterilised’. Who on whom?
Hilter on Picasso
119.  His autobiography is ‘My Story’ and he starred in the movie ‘Le Boheur est dans le pre’. Who?
Eric Cantona

120.  Recitation of Rig Veda, Music of the Sama Veda , mime of the Yajur Veda and sentiments of the Atharva Veda came together to form what?
Bharatanatyam

121.  The first Pestilence rode a white horse and carried a bow ready to conquer, war rode a red horse carrying a sword. Famine rode a black horse and then came a grey horse with death on it. How do we know them better?
Horsemen of the Apocalypse
122.  Whose epitaph ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways, the point however is to change it. Workers of all lands unite.’?
Karl Marx
123.  What was first advocated in a booklet by the name of  ‘A memory of Solferino’?
The Red Cross
124.  Aware of the unpopularity of his job, a German tax collector of Apolda in Thuringia developed in the 1880s an especially fierce breed of dogs to help him on his rounds and this breed takes its name from him. Which one?
Doberman
125.  Which comic character is also known by the name Marquis De Gorgonzola?
Rastapopoulos
126.  Who translated the ‘Jabberwocky’ for Alice in ‘Through the looking glass’?
Humpty Dumpty
127.  Darrell Waters first’ book was ‘A Child Whispers’, a book of poems. How do we know her better?
Enid Blyton
128.  John Bunyan once said’ Sin will prevent you from reading this book or this book will prevent you from sinning’. Which book?
The Bible
129.  Whose said ‘There, where I have passed, the grass will not grow again’ ?
Attilla the Hun
130.  Who advertised with the line’ Only the umpires have  a closer view’?
Channel Nine