WOMEN’S DAY QUIZ

FINALS

Q1. 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 ?

ANSWER

EVE

From Wall-E

Q2.1 _____ = 3.7*10^10 becquerelFITB

ANSWER CURIE(MARIE CURIE)

Q3.

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?

ANSWER "LADIES FIRST"

Q4. Year Actress Film 1995 Mita Vashisht Drohkaal 1996 Not awarded 1997 Seema Biswas Khamoshi: The Musical 1998 Shabana Azmi Mrityudand 1999 Shefali Shah Satya 2000 Sushmita Sen Biwi No.1 2001 Sonali Bendre Hamara Dil Aapke Paas

Hai 2002 Raveena Tandon Aks 2003 Madhuri Dixit Devdas 2004 Juhi Chawla 3 Deewarein 2005 Rani Mukerji Yuva 2006 Shweta Prasad Iqbal 2007 Kirron Kher Rang De Basanti 2008 X 2009 Shahana Goswami Rock On!! 2010 Arundathi Nag Paa 2011 Shernaz Patel Guzaarish 2012 Aditi Rao Hydari Yeh Saali Zindagi 2013 Dolly Ahluwalia Vicky Donor 2014 Swara Bhaskar Raanjhanaa 2015 Tabu Haider

This is the list of the SCREEN AWARDS winners from the year 1995 to 2015..

Who won it in 2008? (think

unconventional)

ANSWER CHAK DE GIRLS

Q5.

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. Id X

ANSWER Hellen Keller

Q6.

Former cat burglar ________ became a crime fighter when she became romantically attracted to and involved with Spider-Man. She has the ability to instill "bad luck" around others - this comes in handy when fighting crime!

Felicia HardyANSWER

Q7. X was born in Vancouver, to a Dutch father and an

English mother She wanted to be a marine biologist but eventually

went on to be an actor Her first role was a guest appearance in a science

fiction series called Jeremiah Gained international fame while playing Y in the

series Z. Id X or Y or Z.

ANSWER Cobie Smulders

Q8. She is the only fashion designer listed on Time

magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

Monroe's unsolicited endorsement provided invaluable publicity to the most iconic product of this designer.

In a 1954 interview, when asked what she wore to bed, the movie star provocatively responded with a famous product by her.

Who?

ANSWER Coco Chanel

Q9. X is a Southerner by birth, born in the rural Mississipi. X suffered

frequent abuse at the hands of relatives. This experience led her to campaign to establish a national database of convicted child abusers.

Then-President Clinton signed the “X Bill" into law in 1993. In the aforementioned interview, X stated:

“A part of my mission in life now is to encourage every other child who has been abused to tell. You tell, and if they don't believe you, you keep telling. You tell everybody until somebody listens to you…I don't want another child to be afraid of saying, ‘This is what happened to me’.” 

Id X

ANSWER Oprah

Winfrey

Q10. PRINT AD FOR?

ANSWER

PANTENE

Q11. Around four years ago “BIRKIN BAGS” remained one

of the top trending items on twitter and social media buzzed with designer commodity.

AC NIELSEN reported a 6% increase in sales of this company. Why such sudden popularity?

ANSWER

Q12. L'Oreal's grand dame ____________ lost her top spot

to Christy Walton, but the world's second-richest woman grew even wealthier this year thanks to the French cosmetics giant's stock price, up 9% since 2013.

She’s is no longer involved in running the company.

ANSWER

Liliane Bettencourt

Q13. 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.

ANSWER Arunima Sinha (Uttar

Pradesh, India)

Q14. She is the author of the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap.

She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott. Most of her work revolve around the investigations of such

characters as Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, Parker Pyne, Harley Quin/Mr Satterthwaite, and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.

Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books, behind Shakespeare's works and the Bible.

“And Then There Were None” is her best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the best-selling books of all time.

Id the lady

ANSWER Agatha Christie

Q15. Stibnite Antimony sulfide Lead sulfide Henna Galena

Ingredients of what pre dynastic thing?

ANSWER KAJAL

Q16.

Identify her

ANSWER Chitra Ramkrishna, CEO & MD, NSE

Q17. Which company’s tagline is :

“The company for woman”

ANSWER

X graduated in B.A Politics from Lady Sri Ram College Delhi

Her famous speech began with the words –” It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject of it.”

ID X

Q18.

Aung San Suu Kyi

ANSWER

Q19. The _______ is a humorous and non conventional

unit of measurement representing 72 days of marriage. This came in response to a certain 72 day marriage in USA’s social circle?

ANSWER KARDASHIAN

Q20. WHAT 4-LETTERED

FASHION ENTITY DOES THIS LADY GIVE HER NAME TO?

(THINK PETA PROTESTS….)

ANSWER DKNY

Q21. On international women’s day, 2014 she was voted as the top

woman icon of india by MSN poll. The international human rights organization amnesty international has declared her a prisoner of conscience.

In the past 14 years, she has been arrested and released several times for the attempts to commit suicide. Nasogastric intubation was forced on her in order to keep her alive while under arrest.

Her primary demand to the Indian government is the complete repeal of the AFSPA which has been blamed for violence in several parts of northeast India.

Id her.

ANSWER Irom Chanu Sharmila

Q22.Forbes has come out with its latest list of 100 most powerful women in the world topped by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.  Five Indian business women are also featured in this list. Indra Nooyi(CEO, PepsiCo)(Rank- 13) Arundhati Bhattacharjee(Chairperson, SBI)(Rank – 36) Chanda Kocher(MD and CEO, ICICI Bank)(Rank – 43) X YIdentify X and Y.

ANSWER X = Padmashree Warrior (CTO, CISCO Systems) at

71st

Y = Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (Chairperson, BIOCON ) at 92nd

Q23. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi is a French virologist and

director of the UNITE DE REGULATION DES INFECTIONS RETROVIRALS at the institute of Pasteur in Paris France

She performed some of the fundamental work of identifying what in medical science?

ANSWER Identification of HIV as the cause of AIDS

Q24.

Identify the company/brand from the logo

ANSWER DENIM BY VICTORIA BECKHAM

SCORES PLEASE