GDD
GDD
NTPC/GROUP-D
India First in the world/
1. In which of the following years was a joint RRB Group D 24/08/2022 (Evening)
venture signed between the Government of (a) 1962 (b) 1974
India and Suzuki Motor Corporation, to
(c) 1981 (d) 1968
launch the Maruti 800 car for the first time
in India? 4. Which of the following is the first indigenous
RT-PCR kit developed by CSIR-Central Drug
(Maruti) 800
Research Institute for testing the omicron
(Suzuki variant ?
Motor Corporation)
RT-PCR
(omicron variant)
RRB Group D 18/08/2022 (Evening) (omicron variant)
(a) 1982 CSIR -
(b) 1986
(c) 1978 RRB Group D 25/08/2022 (Morning)
(d) 1998 (a) VinCom/
2. India's first para-badminton academy was
(b) Shanti/
launched in which state?
(c) Cowin/
(d) INDICoV-Om/
RRB Group D 22/08/2022 (Evening) 5. In which of the following states did NESTLE
India Ltd. set up its first factory in 1961?
(a) Punjab/
(c) Haryana/
RRB Group D 25/08/2022 (Morning)
(d) jharkhand/
(a) Madhya Pradesh/
3. In which year did the Indian government
(b) Punjab/
conduct its first nuclear test in the deserts of
Pokhran? (c) Kerala/
(d) Haryana/
ANSWER KEY
1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (b) 4. (d) 5. (b)
Railway Special 1
India First in the world
6. Where did the first Green Hydrogen Microgrid 11. What is the name of India’s first indigenous
Project start in 2021? aircraft carrier?
ANSWER KEY
6. (c) 7. (d) 8. (a) 9. (a) 10. (d)
11. (c) 12. (a) 13. (a) 14. (a) 15. (c)
Railway Special 2
India First in the world
16. Who among the following was the First Vice 21. Which government has become the world’s first
Chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu government to turn 100% paperless?
University?
(d) Prof. Mohammed Shamim Jairajpuri/ RRB NTPC CBT - II (16/06/2022) Shift 2
(a) Eknath/ (b) Tukaram/
17. India's first amputee clinic was launched in (c) Dnyaneshwar/ (d) Ramdas/
which place? 23. Laurel Hubbard representing _______ became
the first-ever transgender athlete to take part
in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics under the
women’s 87+ kg weightlifting category.
RRB Group D 11/10/2022 (Afternoon) _____
(a) Chandigarh/ (b) Bhopal/ 87 +
(c) Bengaluru/ (d) Kanpur/
18. Where was the first ‘open Rack Museum’ RRB NTPC CBT - II (16/06/2022) Shift 2
inaugurated by the Union Minister of state for
(a) Australia/ (b) China/
science & Technology and Earth Sciences, on
January 6, 2021 ? (c) The United States/
(d) New Zealand/
24. Which of the following countries has become
the first country in the world to accept bitcoin
as legal currency?
RRB NTPC CBT - II (12/06/2022) Shift 1
(a) Hyderabad/ (b) Guwahati/
(c) Kochi/ (d) Bhubaneshwar/ RRB NTPC CBT - II (12/06/2022) Shift 3
19. India’s first building made of biobricks from (a) El Salvador/
agro-waste was inaugurated at _______.
(b) Albania/
(c) Jamaica/ (d) Uzbekistan/
_____
25. Between two cities does India’s first semi high
RRB NTPC CBT - II (13/06/2022) Shift 1
- speed train ‘Vande Bharat Express’ run?
(a) IIT - Delhi/
(b) IIT - Hyderabad/
(c) IIT- kanpur/ RRB NTPC CBT - I (28/12/2020) Morning
(d) IIT-Kharagpur/ (a) Puri and Howrah Junction/
20. What is the capacity of First Green Solar Energy
Harnessing Plant using Vanadium based battery (b) Ahmedabad and Mumbai central/
technology commissioned by the Indian Army ?
(c) Hazrat Nizamuddin and Jhansi Junction/
ANSWER KEY
16. (d) 17. (a) 18. (a) 19. (b) 20. (d)
21. (d) 22. (c) 23. (d) 24. (a) 25. (d)
Railway Special 3
India First in the world
26. Name India’s first Superfast train. RRB NTPC CBT - I (10/01/2021) Evening
(a) a French/
RRB NTPC CBT - I (29/12/2020) Morning (b) an Indian/
(a) Deccan Queen/ (c) a British/
(b) Duronto/ (d) an American/
(c) Shatabdi/ 32. _______ is India’s first para-athlete to win a
(d) Rajdhani Express/ medal at the Paralympics. She won silver at
the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in the shot
27. In which year did India first participate in the
put event.
Olympic games?
_____
ANSWER KEY
26. (a) 27. (d) 28. (a) 29. (d) 30. (a)
31. (d) 32. (c) 33. (d) 34. (d) 35. (b)
Railway Special 4
India First in the world
36. Where and when was the first metro train (c) U Thant/
introduced in India?
(d) Dag Hammarskjold/
41. India’s first biofuel-powered flight landed at IGI
RRB NTPC CBT - I (18/01/2021) Evening Airport in New Delhi from _______ in 2018.
(a) Bombay on 26 January 1950/ _____
IGI
(b) Bangalore on 2 Oct 1945/ RRB NTPC CBT - I (21/01/2021) Morning
(a) Dehradun/ (b) Hyderabad/
(c) Kolkata on 24 Oct 1984/
(c) Patna/ (d) Mumbai/
42. Which is the first and the oldest inter
(d) Delhi on 15 Aug 1947/ governmental organization?
37. Which Indian airport is the world’s first fully
solar-powered airport?
RRB NTPC CBT - I (21/01/2021) Evening
(a) Council of Europe/
(b) Central Commission for Navigation on the
RRB NTPC CBT - I (19/01/2021) Evening
Rhine/
(a) Indira Gandhi International Airport/
(c) United Nations/
(b) Cochin International Airport/ (d) International Labour Organization/
(c) Chennai International Airport/ 43. In which of the following cities was India’s first
bio-refinery plant inaugurated?
(d) Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport/
38. When was the first Indian Cricket Club-the RRB NTPC CBT - I (22/01/2021) Evening
Calcutta Cricket Club established? (a) Pune/ (b) Valsad/
(c) Ahmedabad/
(d) Hyderabad/
RRB NTPC CBT - I (20/01/2021) Evening
44. On which of the following rivers was
(a) 1792 (b) 1790 independent India’s first river dam constructed?
(c) 1791 (d) 1793
39. The first Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor
(PHWR) of India in 1964 was a collaborative
venture between Atomic Energy in ____ Ltd. RRB NTPC CBT - I (23/01/2021) Evening
and NPCIL of India. (a) Krishna/ (b) Yamuna/
(PHWR) (c) Ganga/ (d) Damodar/
______ NPCIL 45. Where has India’s first floating elementary
school been inaugurated?
RRB NTPC CBT - I (20/01/2021) Evening
(a) France/ (b) USSR/
(c) Israel/ (d) Canada/ RRB NTPC CBT - I (23/01/2021) Evening
40. Who was the first UN Secretary - General? (a) Naini Jheel , Nainital/
(b) Dal Lake, Srinagar/
RRB NTPC CBT - I (21/01/2021) Morning
(c) Lake Pichola, Udaipur/
(a) Kofi A Annan/
(d) Loktak Lake, Manipur/
(b) Trygve Lie/
ANSWER KEY
36. (c) 37. (b) 38. (a) 39. (d) 40. (b)
41. (a) 42. (b) 43. (a) 44. (d) 45. (d)
Railway Special 5
India First in the world
46. Who among the following joined the 969 (a) Ashapurna Devi/
Railway Engineer Regiment of Territorial Army
(b) G Sankara Kurup/
(TA) in 2011? She was the first female jawan
in the Indian Army. (c) Amrita Pritam/
(TA) (d) Uma Shankar Joshi/
51. Who is the first women Indian Police Service
officer to reach the South pole?
RRB NTPC CBT - I (25/01/2021) Morning
(a) Amrita Devi/
(b) Sapper Shanti Tigga/ RRB NTPC CBT - I (01/02/2021) Morning
(c) Chhavi Rajawat/ (a) Aparna Kumar/
(d) Sita Sahu/ (b) Kiran Bedi/
47. The world’s first official airmail was sent from (c) Raisina Dialogue/
____ to _____ in February 1911. (d) Kavita Desai/
_____ 52. Which one among the following is the Asia's
_____ first stock exchange?
RRB NTPC CBT - I (25/01/2021) Morning
(a) Allahabad, Naini/ RRB NTPC CBT - I (01/02/2021) Morning
(b) Andhra, Delhi/ (a) Shanghai Stock Exchange/
(c) Allahabad, Agra/ (b) National Stock Exchange/
(d) Hyderabad, Tirupati/ (c) Bombay Stock Exchange/
48. In which of the following states the Electronic (d) Tokyo Stock Exchange/
Voting Machine (EVMs) were used for the first
53. In which year was the World Happiness Report
time in India?
published for the first time?
(EVMs)
RRB NTPC CBT - I (01/02/2021) Morning
RRB NTPC CBT - I (29/01/2021) Morning
(a) 2012 (b) 2015
(a) Tamil Nadu/
(c) 2010 (d) 2017
(b) West Bengal/ 54. Who was the first Indian to travel to Space?
(c) Kerala/ (d) Karnataka/
49. Who was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil RRB NTPC CBT - I (01/02/2021) Evening
Service?
(a) Sunita Williams/
(b) Vikram Sarabhaib/
ANSWER KEY
46. (b) 47. (a) 48. (c) 49. (d) 50. (b)
51. (a) 52. (c) 53. (a) 54. (d) 55. (c)
Railway Special 6
India First in the world
56. Who among the following was the first Indian _____
Governor of the Reserve Bank of India? RRB NTPC CBT - I (05/02/2021) Morning
(a) INS Godavari/INS
(b) INS Talwar/INS
RRB NTPC CBT - I (03/02/2021) Morning
(c) INS Shivalik/INS
(a) Manmohan Singh/
(d) INS Arihant/INS
(b) IG Patel/
62. What is the name of India’s first Railway
(c) CD Deshmukh/ University?
(d) Raghuram Rajan/
57. Which of the following beaches has become the RRB NTPC CBT - I (11/02/2021) Morning
first in Asia to get the Blue Flag Certification? (a) Na ti onal Rail and Transpor tati on
Institute/
(b) Rashtriya Rail Vishwavidyalaya/
RRB NTPC CBT - I (03/02/2021) Morning
(a) Kovalam beach/ (c) Institute of Rail Management of India/
(b) Bega beach/
(c) Chandrabhaga beach/ (d) Indian Rail and Roadways Institute/
(d) Marina beach/
58. Which of the following has developed the 63. The world’s first handwritten needle book is:
world's first malaria vaccine for the World
Health Organization? RRB NTPC CBT - I (15/02/2021) Morning
(a) Devdas/ (b) Moti Mahal/
(c) Madhushala/
RRB NTPC CBT - I (03/02/2021) Morning
(d) Chitra/
(a) Johnson & Johnson/
64. Who is the first Indian to make the record by
(b) Pfizer/ winning two gold medals in the Paralympic
(c) GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)/ Games?
(GSK)
(d) Merck/
59. In which Indian city was the first successful RRB NTPC CBT-I (15/02/2021) Morning
Cotton mill set up? (a) Neeraj Yadav/
(b) Devendra Jhajharia/
(c) Sandeep Chaudhary/
RRB NTPC CBT - I (04/02/2021) Morning
(d) Pardeep/
(a) Kolkata/ (b) Mumbai/
65. Who was the first female judge to be appointed
(c) Chennai/ (d) Patna/ to the Supreme Court of India?
60. In July 2017, India’s first solar powered train
was launched at a railway station in ______.
RRB NTPC CBT - I (15/02/2021) Morning
_____
(a) Gyan Sudha Misra/
RRB NTPC CBT - I (04/02/2021) Evening
(b) Indira Banerjee/
(a) Bengaluru/ (b) Mumbai/
(c) Fathima Beevi/
(c) Delhi/ (d) Pune/
(d) R Banumathi/
61. _____ is India’s first indigenously built warship.
ANSWER KEY
56. (c) 57. (c) 58. (c) 59. (b) 60. (c)
61. (a) 62. (a) 63. (c) 64. (b) 65. (c)
Railway Special 7
India First in the world
66. When did an Indian chief minister host the 71. The very first translation of the Bhagavad Gita
national flag Independence Day for the first time? into English was done by:
_____
RRB NTPC CBT - I (16/02/2021) Evening RRB NTPC CBT - I (03/03/2021) Evening
(a) 15th August 1977/ (a) William Jones/
(b) 15th August 1950/ (b) Colebrook/
(c) 15th August 1947/ (c) Charles Wilkins/
(d) 15th August 1974/ (d) Max Mueller/
67. Which was the first Indian Institute of 72. India’s first costume museum is situated at _____.
Technology (IIT) to be established? _____
RRB NTPC CBT - I (03/03/2021) Evening
(IIT) (a) Uttar Pradesh/
RRB NTPC CBT - I (16/02/2021) Evening
(b) Goa/
(a) IIT, Delhi/IIT
(c) West Bengal/
(b) IIT, Bombay/IIT
(d) Maharashtra/
(c) IIT, Kanpur/IIT 73. Who was the UNO’s first Secretary-General
(d) IIT, Kharagpur/IIT from the African continent?
68. Who is the first woman President of the UNO
Astronomical Society of India? RRB NTPC CBT - I (03/03/2021) Evening
(a) Winston Churchill/
(b) Kurt Waldheim/
RRB NTPC CBT - I (23/02/2021) Morning
(c) Boutros Boutros-Ghali/
(a) Dr. Mithali Raj/
(d) Dag Hammarskjold/
(b) Dr. H Helina/
74. Who was the first Indian poet who was invited
(c) Dr. GC Anupama/ to record his poems at the Library of Congress
(d) Dr. R Hemlata/ in Washington DC?
69. In 2003, _______ became the first Indian to win
a medal at the IAAF World Championships in
Athletics.
______
RRB NTPC CBT - I (04/03/2021) Morning
(IAAF)
(a) Ravindra Bhattacharya/
(b) Abhay K/ K
RRB NTPC CBT - I (01/03/2021) Morning
(a) Anju Bobby George/ (c) Gopalakrishna Adiga/
(b) Hima Das/ (d) Vinay Kumar/
75. ______ is the first tagged Indian item under the
(c) PT Usha/ (d) PV Sindhu/
Geographic Indicator tag through the TRIPS
70. Name the first person to take a solo flight from Agreement .
Mumbai to Karachi in 1932.
______
ANSWER KEY
66. (d) 67. (d) 68. (c) 69. (a) 70. (b)
71. (c) 72. (b) 73. (c) 74. (b) 75. (b)
Railway Special 8
India First in the world
ANSWER KEY
76. (b) 77. (c) 78. (d) 79. (c) 80. (b)
81. (b) 82. (c) 83. (b) 84. (c) 85. (c)
Railway Special 9
India First in the world
86. Who was the first Indian Director of the Indian 91. 'Raksha Blue' launched by Indian Immunological
Institute of Science, Bangalore? Limited and is the first vaccine for -
ANSWER KEY
86. (d) 87. (a) 88. (b) 89. (b) 90. (a)
91. (b) 92. (c) 93. (d) 94. (b) 95. (c)
Railway Special 10
India First in the world
(b) Anita Sood/ 102. When was the first World's Parliament of
Religions held?
(c) Arati Saha/
(d) Mihir Sen/
RPF Constable 17/01/2019 (Morning)
98. Who was the first Indian male athlete to reach (a) 1873 (b) 1839
the final of an Olympic athletic event ?
(c) 1883 (d) 1893
103. Which was the first country to introduce GST
in its system?
RRB JE 26/05/2019 (Evening) GST
(a) Surjit Singh/ RRB ALP Tier-I (09/08/2018) Afternoon
(b) Michael Kindo/ (a) Germany/ (b) Australia/
(c) Milkha Singh/ (c) Canada/ (d) France/
(d) Ajit Pal Singh/ 104. Kacheguda railway station - India's first energy-
99. Who was the first captain of the Indian Test efficient 'A1 Category' railway station is
team? situated in which of the following states?
A1
RRB JE 30/05/2019 (Evening)
RRB ALP Tier-I (30/08/2018) Afternoon
(a) Vijay Merchant/
(a) Karnataka/
(b) Vijay Hazare/
(b) Andhra Pradesh/
(c) C.K. Nayudu/C.K.
(c) Telangana/
(d) Lala Amarnath/
100. Who is considered as the first botanist? (d) Tamil Nadu/
ANSWER KEY
96. (a) 97. (d) 98. (c) 99. (c) 100. (a)
101. (b) 102. (d) 103. (d) 104. (c)
Railway Special 11