Indian women quiz: 1. Who is the longest serving President of Indian National Congress? Answer: Sonia Gandhi (1998-present). 2. Who is the first woman President of India? Answer: Pratibha Patil. 3. Who is the first Indian woman Badminton player to reach singles quarterfinals at the Olympics? Answer: Saina Nehwal (2008 Beijing Olympics). 4. Who is the first Indian woman to win the World Junior Badminton Championships? Answer: Saina Nehwal. 5. Who is the longest serving woman Chief Minister in India? Answer: Sheila Dixit (Delhi CM from 1998-present). 6. Who set up the first IVF centre in India? Answer: Dr. Firuza Parikh in 1989 at the Jaslok Hospital in Mumbai. 7. Who is the first woman Speaker of Lok Sabha? Answer: Meira Kumar. 8. Who is the first women boxer from India to have won Five World Championship titles? Answer: M.C. Mary Kom. 9. Who is the youngest ever woman to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction? Answer: Kiran Desai. She won Booker Prize for her book "The Inheritance of Loss" at the age of 35. 10. Who is the first Indian woman to win Miss World title? Answer: Reita Faria. 11. Who is the first Indian woman to win Booker Prize? Answer: Arundhati Roy for "God of Small Things." 12. Who is the first woman to receive Bharat Ratna? Answer: Indira Gandhi (1971). 13. Who is the first Indian musician to receive the Raman Magsaysay award? Answer: M.S. Subbalakshmi. She was also first musician to … [Read more...]
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