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GK Quiz
GK Quiz
Army
1) Field Marshall
a) 1 January 1973 - Sam Manekshaw (1914–2008)
b) 28 April 1986 - K. M. Cariappa (1899–1993)
2) Generals:
Appointment
Name Rank Left Office
Date
General Sir Francis Robert Roy Bucher General 1 January 1948 15 January 1949
31 December
General Dalbir Singh Suhag General 31 July 2014
2016
31 December
General Bipin Rawat General Current
2016
Navy
1. Commander in chief
Sir William Edward Parry
Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey
2. Admiral
Air force
Name Duration
2. Air Marshall - Anil Khosla- 1 October 2018, Shirish Baban Deo- 31 December 2016 to 30
September 2018
The first Indian (also the first Asian) to win the Ramanathan
Wimbledon junior Singles title Krishnan (in 1954)
The first Indian to swim across the English Channel Mihir Sen (1958)
The first woman in the world to swim the seven seas Bula Chaudhary
The first Indian woman to win a Grand Slam title Sania Mirza
1st woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award Karnam Malleswari
Feature State
Feature State
SPORTS AWARDS
1st recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award Viswanathan Anand
1st woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Karnam Malleshwari
Award
1st recipient of Dhyanchand Lifetime
Aparna Ghosh
Achievement Award
1st cricket player to be awarded the Arjuna
Salim Durrani
Award
GALLANTRY AWARDS
1st winner of Param Vir Chakra Major Somnath Sharma
1st and only Air Force person to receive the Flying Officer Nirmaljit
Param Vir Chakra Shekhon
1st woman to receive the Ashoka Chakra Neerja Bhanot (1987)
OTHER AWARDS
1st recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru Award for
U Thant (1965)
International Understanding
1st recipient of Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Parliamentarians for Global
Disarmament and Development Action(1986)
1st recipient of Indira Gandhi Award for
Yasser Arafat (1992)
International Justice and Harmony
1st recipient of Outstanding Parliamentarian
Shri Chandrashekhar (1995)
Award
1st recipient of Gandhi Peace Prize (Govt of
Julius Nyerere (1995)
India Award)
1st recipient of Communal Harmony Award
Asghar Ali Engineer, 1997
(Individual)
SPORTS AWARDS
1st recipient of Communal Harmony Award
Quami Ekta Trust, 1997
(Organisation)
1st recipient of Tagore Award for Cultural
Pt. Ravi Shankar, 2012
Harmony