Rules

1. The quiz is for teams of two members.

2. The quiz will have six rounds with elimination at the end of
three rounds.
3. There will be 3 rounds clock wise and 3 rounds anti clock
wise in the whole quiz.
4. Goodluck to all participants.

Round I Famous Indian Women

1. Also called Priyadarshini, she was

assassinated in the aftermath of
Operation Blue Star. Her son was
assassinated too, unfortunately.
Who was this dynamic woman,
whos famous quote includes,
Garibi Hathao!?

Indira Gandhi

2. Who?

Laxmibai Rani of Jhansi

3. Who in 2010 became the

youngest woman to win the Arjuna
Award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Award and the Padma Shri in the
same year?

Saina Nehwal

4. In 1972, she joined the Indian

Police Service becoming the first
woman to do so. She is a now a
social activist after retiring from
police service. Who?

Kiran Bedi

5. Her political party ended the

CPI(M)s 34 year rule in a particular
Indian State. Her motto is Ma Mati
Manush. Who?

Mamata Banerjee

6. She is the managing director of

ICICI bank and its CEO as well. She is
the only Indian to have consistently
figured in Fortune magazines Most
Powerful Women in Business
edition since 2005. Who?

Chanda Kochar

7. She is in the Guinness World

Records from 1974 1991 for having
made the most recordings in the
world. In that time, she had
recorded approximately 25,000 solo,
duet and chorus backed songs in 20
Indian Languages. Who is this
nightingale?

Lata Mangeshkar

8. She won the Miss India and Miss

World pageants of 1994. Later on,
The New York Times, in 2004, called
her, the most beautiful woman in
the world. Who?

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

9. Who succeeded Somnath

Chatterjee to become the first
woman speaker in the Indian Lok
Sabha?

Meira Kumar

10. Who is the first Indian female

athlete to surpass US $ 1 million in
career earnings?

Sania Mirza

Round 2 Loose Volleys

1. Which person of Indian origin is

the 4th highest earning female CEO
in the world?

Indra Nooyi

2. Identify the
chairperson of
Biocon.

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

3. This is Angela
Merkel, leader of
which European
country? She
became the first
woman to become
chancellor of the
country.

Germany

4. Which British singer songwriter

won 6 Grammy Awards in 2012 and
the 2013 Oscar award for best song?

Adele

5. Which American talk show host,

actress and producer was ranked the
richest African American of the
20th century? Her TV show ran non
stop from 1986 2011.

Oprah Winfrey

6. Identify.

Jhulan Goswami

7. Her political party focuses on a

platform of social change to improve
the welfare of the weakest strata of
Indian society the bahujans or
Dalits, other backward classes and
religious minorities, according to her
party website. Who?

Mayawati

8. Identify this
social activist.

Medha Patkar

9. She is best known for her vampire

book series, Twilight. She is the
bestselling author of 2008 and 2009
in America, having sold 29 million
books. Who is this author?

Stephanie Meyer

10. Which famous authors

middle name Is Kathleen?

JK Rowling

Round 3 For your eyes only

1.

Anne Frank

Marie Curie

Aung San Suu Kyi

Princess Diana

Condoleeza Rice

Sushma Swaraj

7.

Madhubala

8. Identify the political leader from

her career before politics - Acting

J Jayalalitha

Frieda Pinto

10

Brinda Karat

Round 4 Women Power

1. Which country in the Southern

Hemisphere was the first country to
allow voting rights to women?

New Zealand

2. What is celebrated in East India to

remember the victory of good over
the evil mahisashura?

Durga Puja

3. Who was the first woman to fly

across the Atlantic Ocean? Mira Nair
produced a film on her life as well.

Amelia Earhart

4. If Michelle Obama is one of the

two US first ladies to feature on the
cover of Vogue, name the other
one?

Hilary Clinton

5. Childhood photo of which

Indian actress?

Rani Mukherji

6. She was the 11th Prime Minister

of her country. Her father was also a
former PM of his country. Both her
father and she had to face gruesome
deaths.. Which Asian?

Benazir Bhutto

7. Which current tennis superstar is

the richest female tennis player ever,
due to her record breaking
endorsement deals?

Maria Sharapova

8. She missed out on an olympic

bronze medal by 0.1 microseconds
coming 4th in the 1984 olympics.
Which Indian athlete?

PT Usha

9. Which hollywood personality has

adopted children called Shiloh,
Zahara, Pax, Maddox, Knox and
Vivienne?

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

10.
Of eyes like lotus-petals and of faultless
features endued with youth and
intelligence, she is extremely beautiful.
And the slender-waisted Draupadi of
every feature perfectly faultless, and
whose body emitteth a fragrance like
unto that of the blue lotus for two full
miles around. Translated description of
which character from Indian mythology?

Draupadi

Round 5 Last Leap

1. She was an eminent Indian

painter born to a Punjabi Sikh father
and a Hungarian mother. She has
always been considered an
important woman painter of the 20th
century in the world. Who?

Amrita Shergill

2. Who won the 1998 Man Booker

Prize for fiction for her novel The
God of Small Things (1997) ?a

Arundhati Roy

3. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in

Macedonia, she won the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1979. She spent most
of her lifetime in East India. Who?

Mother Teresa

4. Who, in 1997, became the first

India born woman to go into
space?

Kalpana Chawla

5. On 23rd May 1984, Bachendri Pal

took part on an expedition no
woman ever tried before. What did
she succeed in doing?

First woman to climb Mt. Everest

6. In 1925, she became the first

Indian born female president of the
Indian national Congress. She was
also called the Nightingale of India.
Who?

Sarojini Naidu

7. Who won a bronze medal in

Weight lifting, being the first Indian
woman to win an Olympic Medal?
She did this at Sydney, 2000.

Karnam Malleswari

8. What in India, used by women, is

defined by the Marriam Webster
Dictionary as Four to Nine Yards of
Cloth.?

A Sari

9. She was the first deafblind person

to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Her teacher Anne Sullivan, taught
her words and expressions by the
sense of touch. Which inspiring
lady?

Helen Keller

10. Statistically, what is the largest

spoken first word of babies around
the world?

Ma/Mother/Mummy/Mumma

Thank you!

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