Rules1. 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, who’s 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 magazine’s “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 author’s middle name Is Kathleen?

JK Rowling

Round 3 – For your eyes only

1.

Anne Frank

2

Marie Curie

3

Aung San Suu Kyi

4

Princess Diana

5

Condoleeza Rice

6

Sushma Swaraj

7.

Madhubala

8. Identify the political leader from her career before politics - Acting

J Jayalalitha

9

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!

Amity International Business School Presents

Women’s Day Quiz

Quizmaster: Sreshth Shah (Semester II, BBA – IB)