India Quiz 1

This is the first of the India Quiz series. Some general knowledge questions and answers on India are given here.

1. Who was the first foreigner to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour ?
2. In which space vehicle did Rakesh Sharma go to space ?
3. Who was the first Indian to cross the English Channel ?
4. What is the southernmost point of India called ?
5. Which is the only Indian state to have English as its official language ?
6. In which year the Indian constitution was amended for the first time ?
7. What is the strait that separates India and Sri Lanka called ?
8. Who was the first Governor General in India ?
9. Where is India's only volcano situated
10. What was the other name of Bengal Gazette, the first newspaper published from India ?
11. Who has been called Indian Machiavelli ?
12. For which film did Pandit Ravisankar compose music for the first time ?
13. What is the headquarters of Life Insurance Corporation of India is called ?
14. Which is the largest Mosque in India ?
15. Who was the first Indian musician to compose a symphony ?
16. Who was the first bowler to take a hat-trick in a Cricket world cup
17. Which writer's real name was Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava ?
18. In which year the Kendra Sahitya Academy was instituted ?
19. Who was the founder of Swaraj Party ?
20. Where was the first medical college in India started ?

Answers

1. Khan Abdul Jaffer Khan
2. Soyuz T-11
3. Mihir Sen
4. Indira Point
5. Nagaland
6. 1951
7. Palk strait
8. Warren Hastings
9. Barron Island
10. Calcutta General Advertiser
11. Chanakya
12. Anuradha
13. Yogakshema Bhavan
14. Jama Masjid, Delhi
15. Ilaiyaraja
16. Chetan Sharma
17. Munshi Premchand
18. 1954
19. Mothilal Nehru
20. Kolkata

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