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Questions |
Answers |
| 1. |
First women from India to win a Nobel prize |
Mother Teresa, peace prize in 1979 |
| 2. |
First woman to receive Bharat Ratna |
Indira Gandhi in 1971 |
| 3. |
First
recipient of Jnanpith award |
G Sankara Kurup, for Odakkuzhal (Flute) in Malayalam |
| 4. |
First woman to win the Jnanpith award |
Asha Purna Devi 1976 for her work Pratham Pratisruti in Bengali |
| 5. |
First Indians to win Bharat Ratna |
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, Dr. C. V. Raman in 1954 |
| 6. |
First Indian to win Nobel Prize in Literature |
Rabindranath Tagore |
| 7. |
First Indian to win two Oscar Awards is |
A. R. Rahman |
| 8. |
First Indian to win an Oscar in the technical category is |
Resul Pookutty |
| 9. |
First Indian to win booker Prize |
Arundhati roy in 1997 for 'The God of Small Things' |
| 10. |
First Indian woman to win a Pulizer Prize |
Jhumpa Lahiri in 2000 |
| 11. |
First Indian to win Dadasaheb Phalke Award |
Devika Rani in 1970 |
| 12. |
First Indian Oscar winner |
Bhanu Athaiya, for best costume design for the film 'Gandhi' in 1982 |
| 13. |
First Indian Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film |
Mother India, 1957 |
| 14. |
First Indian Olympic team medal |
gold for Hockey, at Amsterdam beating the Netherlands in 1928 |
| 15. |
Winner of first Indian Olympic Individual medal |
K. D. Jadhav, Bronze in wrestling at Helsinki in 1952 |