Women's Day Quiz Finals Conducted on Mar 9, 2015

1. WOMEN’S DAY QUIZ
FINALS

2. 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 ?

4. ANSWER
EVE
From Wall-E

5. Q2.
 1 _____ = 3.7*10^10 becquerel
 FITB

7. ANSWER
 CURIE(MARIE CURIE)

8. 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?

10. ANSWER
 "LADIES FIRST"

11. 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)

13. ANSWER
 CHAK DE GIRLS

14. 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

16. ANSWER
 Hellen Keller

17. 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!

19. Felicia Hardy
ANSWER

20. 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.

22. ANSWER
 Cobie Smulders

23. 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?

25. ANSWER
 Coco Chanel

26. 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

28. ANSWER
 Oprah Winfrey

29. Q10.
 PRINT AD FOR?

31. ANSWER
 PANTENE

32. 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?

34. ANSWER

35. 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.

37. ANSWER
Liliane Bettencourt

38. 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.

40. ANSWER
 Arunima Sinha (Uttar Pradesh,
India)

41. 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

43. ANSWER
 Agatha Christie

44. Q15.
 Stibnite
 Antimony sulfide
 Lead sulfide
 Henna
 Galena
 Ingredients of what pre dynastic thing?

46. ANSWER
 KAJAL

47. Q16.
Identify her

49. ANSWER
 Chitra Ramkrishna, CEO & MD, NSE

50. Q17.
 Which company’s tagline is :
“The company for woman”

52. ANSWER

53. 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.

55. Aung San Suu Kyi
ANSWER

56. 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?

58. ANSWER
 KARDASHIAN

59. Q20.
 WHAT 4-LETTERED
FASHION ENTITY DOES
THIS LADY GIVE HER
NAME TO?
 (THINK PETA
PROTESTS….)

61. ANSWER
 DKNY

62. 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.

64. ANSWER
 Irom Chanu Sharmila

65. 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
 Y
Identify X and Y.

67. ANSWER
 X = Padmashree Warrior (CTO, CISCO Systems) at 71st
 Y = Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (Chairperson, BIOCON ) at 92nd

68. 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?

70. ANSWER
 Identification of HIV as the cause of AIDS

71. Q24.
Identify the company/brand
from the logo

73. ANSWER
 DENIM BY VICTORIA BECKHAM

74. SCORES PLEASE