finals: women's day quiz 2015
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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 Hardy
ANSWER
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
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