First women in India GK Competitive Exams

First women in India GK Question and Answers for Various Competitive Exams

1. The first women honors graduate in India.
Ans- Kamini Roy (1886).

2. First women’s court in India.

Ans- Malda (West Bengal).

3. The first women Supreme Court judge.

Ans- Justice M. Fathima Beevi.

4. High Court Judge.

Ans- Anna Chandy.

5. Doctorate of Science in India.

Ans- Asima Chatterjee (1944).

6. Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly.

Ans- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1953).

7. The first women Physician.

Ans- Kadambini Ganguly(1886).

8. The first women Air Vice Marshal of India.

Ans- Padmavathy Bandopadhyay.

9. IAS officer-

Ans-Isha Basant Joshi.

10. Asian Games gold medal winner.

Ans- Kamlijit Sandhu.

11. Climb Mount Everest.

Ans- Bachendri Pal (1984).

12. Who was the first Indian woman to be the member of Legion of Honour?

Ans- Asha Pande.

13. The first Tamil woman member of the royal French Legion of Honour.

Ans- Anjali Gopalan.

14. Managing Director of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India.

Ans- Usha Sangwan.

15. First women Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

Ans- Meira Kumar.

16. Reach the final of an Olympic event-

Ans- P. T. Usha.

17. Asian Games gold medal winner.

Ans- Kamlijit Sandhu.

18. Nobel Prize winner-

Ans- Mother Teresa (Calcutta in 1979).

19. Chairperson of State Bank of India-

Ans- Arundhati Bhattacharya.

20. To cross the English Channel-

Ans- Aarti Saha.

21. Magasasay Award-

Ans- Kamladevi Chattopadhyay.

22. Fist women Pilot-

Ans- Harita Kaur Deol.

23. To win 1st round match in a Grand Slam event-

Ans- Nirupama Vaidyanathan.

24.To reach 4th round (highest as of 2008) of a Grand Slam event-

Ans- Sania Mirza.

25. Airline Pilot-

Ans- Durba Banerjee.

26. Court-martialled-

Ans- Anjali Gupta (2005).

27. Pilot a locomotive engine (train driver)-

Ans- Surekha Yadav.

28. The first woman went to space-

Ans- Kalpana Chawla.

29. Paris Brest Paris Cycling Event-

Ans- Divya Tate.

30. To Cross Gobi Desert-

Ans- Sucheta Kadethankar

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