Women's Quiz-Prelims IIT BHU

Women’s Day Quiz

Prelims

Rules

• 30 Questions• Prime Numbered Questions will be used for

Tie Breakers.• No negative marking, feel free to guess.

1. Id X.

• X’s father worked in a circus as a trapeze performer, and later as a lion tamer.

• X was very good with card tricks among other things.

• Her tricks were based on memorization of cards rather than by sleight of hand.

• She has authored many books such as, The World of Homosexuals.

Shakuntala Devi

2.Given below is my fictional biography.

• My full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. In a series of novels published by Random House in the 1960s, my parents' names are given as George and Margaret Roberts from the fictional town of Willows, Wisconsin. In the Random House novels, I attended Willows High School.

• I have over 40 pets including cats and dogs, horses, a panda, a lion cub, and a zebra. I own a wide range of vehicles, including pink Corvette convertibles, trailers, and jeeps. I also hold a pilot's license, and operate commercial airliners in addition to serving as a flight attendant. My career is designed to show that women can take on a variety of roles in life, and I have been sold with a wide range of titles.WHO AM I ?

Barbie

3.Who is she?• As a little girl, she was fascinated watching her father typing

stories on the typewriter. She got a typewriter at the age of 7 and started typing poetries. When she was only 2 year old, she had lost one of her 8 step brothers in a road accident. At the age of 8, she wrote a song which was inspired by her father who wore dark glasses for 4 whole years to hide the grief of losing his son. At the age of 13, she was signed by Sony Music for 3 albums.

• In 2013, she was listed on Forbes as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world.

• Hint – Think Latin America

Shakira

4. Id X.• Former Victoria's Secret Angel Miranda Kerr is the face of X. • The X is a type of Y that gained worldwide prominence in

the 1990s. Although the X name was first trademarked in the U.S. in 1955, the brand was developed in Canada.

• Moses (Moe) Nadler, founder and majority owner of the Canadian Lady Corset Company, licensed the trademark for the Canadian market in 1939. By the 1960s the Canadian Lady brand had become known in Canada as “X, the company." In 1961 the company introduced the Model 1300 . This became one of the best-selling Canadian styles and is virtually identical to today's X.

Wonderbra

5.Who am I ?

• I am the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School. I am also the first woman to guide the functioning of a foreign bank in India. I was also the first ever female president of FICCI.

Naina Lal Kidwai

6. Identify.

Malala Yousafzai

7. Id X.

• X is a Harvard alumnus. Eric Schmidt, then CEO of Google, said the following to convince her to join them - “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat. You just get on.”

• X joined Google and later left the company to join a competitor. She went on to become one of the youngest female billionaires in the world and is 6th on the Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.

Sheryl Sandberg

8. Who is this doodle for ?

Shakuntala Devi

9. Put Funda.

Anushka Sharma’s Lipjob.

10.Minimal Poster of which Movie ?

Chak De India

11.• She has all necessary parts of a probe droid. She has an

ergonomic suitable shape, scanner, flight at high speeds to cross ground quickly and morphable fingers for different purposes.

• She is also armed with a plasma cannon in her right arm. However, it is odd that a simple probe would have a plasma gun.

• The gun might have been installed to remove obstacles and attack enemies. An example of this is when she blasts away an electromagnet she is trapped by.

• Who ?

Eve from Wall-E

12. Who is she ?

• She is referred to by different names. • Krishna (one who has dark complexion)• Yajnaseni (one born from a Yajna or fire-

sacrifice) • Sairandhri (literally: an expert maid, her

assumed name during her second exile

Panchali or Draupadi

13.

• 1 _____ = 3.7*10^10 becquerel

Curie

14.

• X syndrome is an extremely rare intestinal disorder in humans resulting from eating hair

• The syndrome is named after a character whose origins have been traced back to the 3rd century Saint Barbara and the 10th century tale of Princess Rudaba of Kabul

• Id X .

Rapunzel

17.Id X or the thing she is famous for.

• X was employed to make DEATH MASKS of the victims of the guillotine during French Revolution, including some of the Revolutions most infamous dead such as Louis XVI, Marat, and Robespierre. Also others like Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin etc.

• Thus gradually shot into fame. These days X’s name is associated with an iconic tourist attraction.

Madame Tussauds

16.

• Long ago, in the villages of Germany, lovers whose families opposed their marriage would jump off a cliff to prove their love. But women, when their turn came after seeing their men jump off, would get cold feet and return home, and marry someone else .This is considered to be the ORIGIN of what very suavely used gentlemanly 2 WORD PHRASE?

Ladies First

17. Id X• X appeared in a silent movie Deliverance (1919).• Had friends ranging from Alexander Graham

Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain.• In 1964, X was awarded Presidential Medal of

Freedom by Lyndon Johnson.• Her autobiography was called “The Story Of My

Life” (1903).• Several movies have been made on her life.

Helen Keller

18.

She was a national level volleyball and football player, who was pushed from a running train by thieves in 2011 while preventing a robbery. One of her legs had to be amputated below the knee as a result. In 2012, she went on to become the first female amputee in the world to CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST. She has written a book "born again on the mountain“ in december 2014. She is one of the recipients of Padmashri award, in the year 2015. Identify her.

Arunima Sinha

19.

• Stibnite • Antimony sulfide• Lead sulfide• Henna• Galena

• Ingredients of what pre dynastic thing?

Kohl ( Kajal)

20.

Who was the first female to get a perfect 10.0 score in gymnastics?

Nadia Comaneci