Here’s another set of 20 more MCQs to help you prepare for any sarkari naukri exams. These questions related to women are often asked in various government exams like SSC, banks, and railways (not to mention interviews), as they test your social awareness (not just general awareness).
So take out your pen and paper (or notepad) and answer without searching online. This will help you assess your knowledge level and remember the information. You can also check the correct answers and the sources at the end of the quiz. All the best 😊
Let’s start the quiz on India’s women
- Who was the first woman in India to become a doctor?
- A) Anandi Gopal Joshi
- B) Kadambini Ganguly
- C) Rukhmabai
- D) Muthulakshmi Reddi
- Who was the first woman in India to become a teacher?
- A) Savitribai Phule
- B) Pandita Ramabai
- C) Sister Nivedita
- D) Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
- Who was the first woman in India to join the Indian Police Service (IPS)?
- A) Kiran Bedi
- B) Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
- C) Meera Borwankar
- D) Vimla Mehra
- Who was the first woman in India to become an autorickshaw driver?
- A) Shila Dawre
- B) Sunita Chaudhary
- C) Bharathi Veerath
- D) Selvi
- Who was the first woman in India to fly solo in a plane?
- A) Sarla Thakral
- B) Nivedita Bhasin
- C) Gunjan Saxena
- D) Shaliza Dhami
- Who was the first woman in India to become a train driver?
- A) Surekha Yadav
- B) Mumtaz Kazi
- C) Priti Kumari
- D) Jyoti Kumari
- Who was the first woman in India to fly a Rafale fighter jet?
- A) Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh
- B) Flight Lieutenant Avani Chaturvedi
- C) Flight Lieutenant Bhawana Kanth
- D) Flight Lieutenant Mohana Singh
- Who was the first woman in India to become an army officer?
- A) Captain Lakshmi Sehgal
- B) Captain Divya Ajith Kumar
- C) Captain Shikha Sharma
- D) Captain Tania Shergill
- Who was the first woman in India to become an astronaut?
- A) Kalpana Chawla
- B) Sunita Williams
- C) Rakesh Sharma
- D) None of the above
- Who was the first woman in India to become a prime minister?
- A) Indira Gandhi
- B) Pratibha Patil
- C) Sarojini Naidu
- D) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- Who was the first woman in India to win the Booker Prize for literature?
- A) Arundhati Roy
- B) Kiran Desai
- C) Anita Desai
- D) Jhumpa Lahiri
- Who was the first woman in India to become a full-time finance minister?
- A) Nirmala Sitharaman
- B) Indira Gandhi
- C) P. Chidambaram
- D) Arun Jaitley
- Who was the first woman in India to win the Miss World title?
- A) Aishwarya Rai
- B) Priyanka Chopra
- C) Reita Faria
- D) Manushi Chhillar
- Who was the first woman in India to become a chief justice of a high court?
- A) Leila Seth
- B) Fathima Beevi
- C) Ruma Pal
- D) Ranjana Desai
- Who was the first woman in India to act in a movie?
- A) Durgabai Kamat
- B) Zubeida
- C) Devika Rani
- D) Nargis
- Who was the first woman in India to become a barrister?
- A) Cornelia Sorabji
- B) Mithan Tata Lam
- C) Anna Chandy
- D) Indira Jaising
- Who was the first woman in India to become a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force?
- A) Avani Chaturvedi
- B) Bhawana Kanth
- C) Mohana Singh
- D) All of the above
- Who was the first woman in India to become a neurosurgeon?
- A) Dr. Chandrani Prasad Verma
- B) Dr. T.S. Kanaka
- C) Dr. Anandibai Joshi
- D) Dr. Preetha Reddy
- Who was the first woman in India to become an airline pilot?
- A) Durba Banerjee
- B) Harpreet A De Singh
- C) Nivedita Bhasin
- D) Anny Divya
- Who was the first woman in India to become a governor of a state?
- A) Padmaja Naidu
- B) Sarojini Naidu
- C) Sucheta Kripalani
- D) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Answers:
Here are the answers with additional information about each woman:
A) Anandi Gopal Joshi – She was one of the earliest female physicians in the world. Overcoming societal barriers, she pursued her medical education in the late 19th century in the United States and returned to India to serve her community.
A) Savitribai Phule – along with her husband Jyotirao Phule, played a pioneering role in promoting women’s education in India during the 19th century. She established the first school for girls in Pune.
A) Kiran Bedi – made history as the first woman to join the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972.
A) Shila Dawre – broke gender stereotypes by becoming the first woman in India to pursue unconventional careers and drive an autorickshaw.
A) Sarla Thakral – became the first woman in India to fly solo in a plane at the age of 21.
A) Surekha Yadav – became India’s first female train driver in 1988 inspiring many more.
A) Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh – is the first woman in India to fly a Rafale fighter jet (who’s the first fighter pilot? Check out this quiz)
A) Captain Lakshmi Sehgal – was a prominent freedom fighter and the first woman in India to become an army officer.
A) Kalpana Chawla – was the first woman of Indian origin to go to space, serving as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
A) Indira Gandhi
A) Arundhati Roy – won the Booker Prize for her debut novel “The God of Small Things,”.
A) Nirmala Sitharaman – she became the first full-time female Finance Minister of India – PM Indira Gandhi also briefly served as the Finance Minister in 1970-71 – but she shouldn’t be considered as full-time FM of India.
C) Reita Faria – made history by becoming the first Asian woman to win the Miss World title in 1966.
A) Leila Seth – the first woman to become a chief justice of Himachal Pradesh High court in 1991. Here’s a Google story on her struggles.
A) Durgabai Kamat – entered Bollywood during the silent films era in the early 20th century.
A) Cornelia Sorabji – was the first woman to study law at Oxford University and the first female advocate in India.
D) All of the above – Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth, and Mohana Singh made history as the first female fighter pilots in the Indian Air Force.
B) Dr. T.S. Kanaka – was Asia’s first woman to achieve this distinction.
A) Durba Banerjee – was the first woman in India to become an airline pilot. Here’s a tweet by Ministry of Civil Aviation:
TRAILBLAZERS OF CIVIL AVIATION!
— MoCA_GoI (@MoCA_GoI) February 7, 2021
Durba Banerjee was the first pilot of Indian Airlines in 1956 and the first Indian woman commercial pilot.Banerjee started her aviation career flying a Dakota with Air Survey of India as a DC3 pilot in 1959. pic.twitter.com/0P2VpcAaPR
B) Sarojini Naidu – the Nightingale of India, a prominent freedom fighter and poet become a governor of United Province (which in 1950 became Uttar Pradesh). Here’s a write up by UP govt
