The document provides instructions for a 10 question quiz with no negative marking or prizes. It then asks 10 multiple choice questions about various female political and historical figures from around the world. The questions require identifying people like Mehbooba Mufti, Kaja Kallas, Nadia Murad, Princess Kaiulani, the Famous Five of Canada, Bertha von Suttner and her correspondence with Alfred Nobel, Aung San Suu Kyi, Razia Sultan, and a controversial social media post depicting Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
3. Q1
After completing graduation, her first job was with the
entity shown on the right and later she worked with
East West Airlines, before moving to her home state. In
2016 she entered a list which included only 15 other
women at that point of time.
Identify the person and the list she became a part of in
2016.
6. Q2
Kersti Kaljulaid is the first well as the youngest female to
adorn a particular post in the country since its independence in
1918.
Kaja Kallas who has been the leader of the Reform Party since
2018 and a member of Riigikogu since 2019 was appointed to a
post in 2021.
The election of these two ladies to the post made their country
achieve a special distinction. Identify the country and the
special distinction?
9. Q3
This Memorial also known as Swing Low honors the life
of X. The intersection at which it stands was earlier a
barren traffic island and is now known as “X Triangle”.
Created by sculptor Alison Saar, the statue depicts X
striding forward despite roots pulling on the back of her
skirt aptly depicting the movement she was a pioneer of.
Her skirt is decorated with images representing all whom
she assisted to escape.
What does the roots signify and name the movement?
12. Q4
On Her Shoulders is a 2018 American documentary film
directed by Alexandria Bombach and produced under the
banner of RYOT Films. The film follows X on her 3-month
tour of Berlin New York and Canada as she meets
politicians and journalists to alert the world of the
massacres and kidnapping happening in her native land.
The film was released at Sundance Film Festival where it
won the Documentary Directing Award and the Grand Jury
Prize. On whose life is the documentary based?
15. Q5
This is a 2009 British-American bio-drama film based on X, the
last heir to kingdom of Y. Her name means “the highest point of
heaven" or "the royal sacred one" in native language. The film
depicts how X’s life takes a turn when a group of armed white
men led by Lorrin Thurston enter the palace urging to sign a new
constitution to restrict power of monarchy as well as to grant
huge governmental powers to citizens of European ancestry. A
life lived only to fight for her Kingdom's restoration; she made
speeches & public appearances denouncing the overthrow of her
government and the injustice toward her people. Identify X and
Y.
18. Q6
On August 27, 1927, Emily Murphy, Irene Parlby, Nellie McClung, Louise
McKinney & Henrietta Muir, whom history dubbed Famous or Valiant Five,
petitioned the Supreme Court to clarify whether the word ‘X’ in the
founding documents of Canada & its government included ‘Y’. The Supreme
Court ruled that it did not include Y if the question is on appointment to the
Senate. In October 1929, the Judicial Committee overruled the Supreme Court
stating equality on appointment to the Senate.
What did the Famous Five petitioned to clarify on?
20. ANSWER
They petitioned the Supreme
Court to clarify whether the
word “persons” in the
founding documents of
Canada and its government
included females.
21. Q7
“Lay Down Your Arms” tells the story of Martha, a woman whose life is shaped by
war. Her first husband dies on the battlefields of Solferino in 1859 while her second
husband after surviving the wars of 1864 & 1866, is mistakenly killed in Paris. The
book aims at stories of glory heroism and criticizes the hypocrisy of society.
The author of the book once in 1876, with the encouragement of her employers
answered a newspaper advertisement which led to her briefly becoming secretary
and housekeeper to a famous person who later became her friend and they
corresponded for years on a particular subject. In early 1893, she got a letter from
her friend in which he had mentioned one of his idea.
Identify the author, her friend and the idea.
23. ANSWER
Bertha von Suttner
Her friend was Alfred Nobel.
Idea was establishing a peace
prize.
In 1905, she became the first
woman to be awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize
24. Q8
X has been a trademark symbol of the leader for many years. The place from
where it comes is believed to be a state secret, but many speculate that
these grow in a place called Pyin Oo Lwin, a few kilometers away from the
country's second largest city. This little tradition was initially thought to be a
tribute to father but the leader later revealed that it’s a habit she inherited
from her mother since in the country, it is believed that glory is in the ____.
These are ordered ahead of big events, and then are cut, packed and
transported in air-conditioned vehicles.
Identify the leader and the trademark symbol?
26. Q9
Located through the confusing and dark alleys, circuitous path and small
lanes to Bulbuli Khana is the grave of X. The grave is said to have been built
by X’s successor and half-brother Bahram. The place where X is buried is said
to be the hospice of Sufi Saint Shah Turkman Bayabani. The presence of
another grave beside it is often debated to be of either of X’s sister, lover or
her faithful maid. The current state of this 'protected monument' is
deplorable, but the saving grace is that the local community has
appropriately claimed the space by building a small make-shift mosque next
to the grave. Whose grave is this?
28. ANSWER
Razia Sultan
She was the first female
Muslim ruler of the
subcontinent and the only
female Muslim ruler of
Delhi.
29. Q10
In October 2020, a petition on Change.org demanded an apology from the
party campaign due to an insensitive post shared by one of the campaigner’s
niece. The post drew immense criticism due to religious insensitivity and
violence depiction. It depicted the fair-skinned X about to plunge the dark-
skinned Y lying on the ground and the animal faced Z. The post shared
during an Indian Festival was urged by the petitioners as an insult to
Hinduism.
Who were the people in the post and and in which form?
30. ANSWER
Meena Harris sharing the
post depicting Aunt
Kamala Harris astride a
lion with the face of Biden
and slaying Trump