This quiz was created for and run in the Mangalore Quizzing Foundation group on September 12th 2020,a Saturday.

2. Rules :
 There are two rounds
 All answers are related to Indian Women,real,fictional and mythological.
 12 questions in the first round,one pointers,unless specified(multiple part answers)
 Second round is a Long Visual Connect round.
 5 questions,all single pointers,with points in multiples of 5 and negatives in multiples of two for the LVC.
 (1) 25/-10
 (2)20/-8
 (3)15/-6
 (4)10/-4
 (5)5/-2
 One attempt at the connect is allowed after each question.
 All answers are to be Dmed to me.,no fastest fingers 
 It’s a very basic, ’greatest hits’ kind of set,originally created for a Bengal based, pan-India group,
so there are a couple of sitters (local questions for us)
Let’s Begin !
Special Thanks to El Presidente for the
swift permission and the classy,timely posters.
Also to each person reading this right now,
hope you have a good time quizzing.

3. (1)Connect these movies to something very specific
(non-exhaustive connect)

4. Answer :Bollywood debuts of famous Beauty Pageant winners
(who also became popular actresses)
Miss World 1994
Aishwarya Rai
Miss Universe 1994
Sushmita Sen
Miss World 2000
Priyanka Chopra
Miss Universe 2000
Lara Dutta
(The list is
non-exhaustive,
but all four of these
women have/had
reasonably successful film
careers.
Arguably the most
famous among the
winners)

5. (2)ID this ‘Abhaya
Rani’
from the
Amar Chitra Katha
issue cover.
She successfully
fought
the Portuguese in the
16th century and thus,
is often regarded as
the
‘first woman
freedom fighter of
India.’
Coastal Queen
with no fear

6. Answer :
Rani
Abbakka Devi
Chowta
This set was created for a
Bengal-based pan India quiz group,
which is why its too basic for
this place and this group.

7. (3)Whose words, about what??
“It was a burden. I wanted the trophy to be safe in future
and
in the right hands.I do not trust anyone in India to keep
it.
If Tagore’s Nobel medal could be stolen,what is the
guarantee my trophy would be safe?
In India,no one values such things and we lack a tradition
of maintaining our heritage and things pertaining to our
culture.”

8. Answer:India’s first ever
Oscar winner Bhanu Athaiya’s
reasoning behind returning her Oscar
to the Academy in 2012.

9. Not a Raja Ravi Varma painting,though often mistaken to be.
(4)Story behind which well-known household level painting???
A few days after Deepavali,a 15 year old Gita draped her mother’s new sari on a
whim.Being very close to her father,she immediately ran to him to show him how she
looked.
The moment he saw her,he said
“You are looking very beautiful. Let me make a sketch of you.”
For the next three days,she posed for half an hour everyday,wearing the
now-famous light lavender colour sari and holding a X in her hands.
The painter wanted to portray her in this feeble yellow light in a way that her face
is the only glowing thing illuminated in the darkness.
Since his own daughter was the subject,the painter refused to sell it to anyone.
That is,till the Maharaja of Mysore asked him.
The painting is now found in the JayaChamarajendra Wodeyar Art gallery,
alongside many famous Raja Ravi Varma paintings.
Give me one of the two names this painting has. (X is a part of the name)
One is also a moniker given to Florence Nightingale.
The other is the original title given by the painter himself.

10. Answer:
Lady with the Lamp/A Glow of Hope by S.L.Haldankar
with her family when she turned 100
in 2017.
She passed away a year later.
His daughter,
Gita Haldankar
(later Uplekar)

11. (5)Give me A and Z (A/B or X/Y might become confusing here)
A and Z are known to most people as wives of famous national figures.
They met for the first time at the ashram of Kasturba Gandhi.
Having established a good friendship,they had good rapport and would often write to each other.
At that time,both their husbands too,were on good terms with each other.
Years later though,A’s daughter and Z’s husband went at loggerheads on a decisive national level
(to put it very basically)
In fact,before starting an all-India movement against A’s daughter,
Z’s husband retuned all the letters that A had written to Z.
Also,in 1958,more than 20 years since the death of A,Z wrote a letter to A’s husband expressing her
wish to start a school for girls and name it after A.
This school,sadly,never came to be.
A’s husband’s reply letter to this decision wasn’t among the letters returned by Z’s husband,to A’s
daughter.
A and Z are both well known freedom fighters in their own right.

12. Answer :
A Z
Wife of
Pandit.Jawaharlal Nehru and
mother of Indira Gandhi
Wife of Loknayak
Jayaprakash
Narayan

13. (6)What kind of parks is this an exhaustive list of??
The type of park is blanked out.FITB
and connect the last one to a female braveheart.
1.------ National Park,Gujarat
2.Gahirmatha ------ Sanctuary,Odisha
3.Gulf of Mannar,------ National Park,Tamil Nadu
4.Malvan ------ Wildlife Sanctuary,Maharashtra
And the last two,so far are both located on the Andaman and
Nicobar Islands,
And both are also named after luminaries.
5. Mahatma Gandhi ------ National Park
And the Last one(6th) is the only one named after a woman,
someone who has been immortalized in a poem by Subhadra
Kumari Chauhan,a 2009 ZeeTv drama and a 2019 biopic among
others.
6. ? (name the person the 6th park is named after.)

14. Answer:
The Blank - Marine Parks
and The sixth park is named
Rani Jhansi Marine Park at
Andaman and Nicobar Islands

15. (7)Through these symbols,
Give me the name of an unsung heroine of the First war of
independence who also fought the Doctrine of Lapse.
Hint: The official scholarship for Meritorious girls from minority communities has been started by
Ministry of Minority Affairs in her name.
One point

16. Answer : Breakdown of the
Elements :
Flag of Oudh
Her grave which
was unidentified
for several years
Stamp
commemorating
her
Her Seal
Painting of the
mutiny
Flag of Nepal
where she spent
the rest of her life
in exile.

17. Pheti Hui Coffee
(8)Identify these fictional characters from an iconic
show.
Also,what Indian internet trend made them gain new
popularity during this lockdown??
(need both parts together)
Hint:this Saas-Bahu duo sparked off a trend early into
the lockdown much before Kokila and Gopi.

18. Answer :
Maya Sarabhai played by Ratna Pathak Shah
and Monisha Sarabhai played by Rupali Ganguly in the
sitcom
Sarabhai vs. Sarabhai
Gained viral popularity due to the
‘Monisha Beta/Too middle class’ memes trend,
which started with this one

19. (9)Whose list of achievements ?????
(the most famous ones have been excluded)
A wise Bahu too !
Received a gold medal from the Institution of
Engineers,India.
Was awarded the ‘Best Teacher Award’ from Rotary Club
at Bangalore.
Established a library at Harvard University.
 topped 10th grade board exams in her state
Acted in a Marathi movie ‘Pitruroon’
Acted in a Kannada movie ‘Prarthana’
(Pretty well discussed in MQF,at least recently.)

20. Answer:
Sudha Murty,
popular author and
former TELCO engineer (first female engineer).
She’s also the wife of Infosys Founder Narayan Murthy.
She runs the Infosys Foundation and several other charity initiatives.
Again,the explanation was meant for the other groups 

21. (10)ID A,B,C and D with full names
(all share the same,unisex first name)
A is a movie producer,writer,director and co-founder of Paani foundation for drought
relief.Despite all this,she is far more famous as the spouse of a famous Bollywood star.
B is a retired IPS officer,former tennis player and a politician currently holding a
very high post.She is the first female IPS officer,known for ushering in prison
reforms.
C is a billionaire entrepreneur.She is the founder and MD of Biocon limited.
Very recently,she was named the EY Entrepreneur of the year 2020.
D is an acclaimed author.Her mother was nominated for Man Booker Prize
thrice,but didn’t win.D won it in 2006 for her novel “The Inheritance of Loss”

22. Answers:
A B C D
Kiran Rao Kiran Bedi Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Kiran Desai

23. (11)How did the subjects of these Paintings come
into prominence in recent years???(not just mythology)
Hint: Popular Consciousness for a certain demographic
(women centric revisionist mythology fans)

24. Answer : They became the protagonists of Kavita Kane’s mythological
retelling novel series which features side-lined female characters of
Ramayana and Mahabharata.
From left to right,the paintings feature
(novel names in parentheses)
Ahalya,the cursed wife of Rishi Gautama
(Ahalya’s Awakening)
Uruvi, (Karna’s wife)
Menaka,the Apsara(Menaka’s Choice)
Urmila,Lakshmana’s wife who was blessed
by Nidra Devi(Sita’s Sister)
Satyavati,Kuru clan Dowager
(The Fisher Queen’s Dynasty)
Shurpanakha,Ravana’s Sister
(Lanka’s Princess)

25. (12) Diva for a Day
Give me the name of the multiple Oscar winner
Yesteryear star Madhubala was well renowned for her beauty and
screen presence.She was bestowed with titles like ‘Venus of the silver
screen’,
’Marilyn Monroe of Bollywood’.
She eventually became so popular world wide that a famous American
director of that era wanted to meet her and give her a break in
Hollywood.
He even tried to meet her while he was in Bombay,attending IFFI.
This never led to any role,sadly,because Madhubala’s father flat out
refused to take up the offer,saying,
”she could not eat with forks and knives and therefore,would not go.”
The director in question was someone well renowned for pioneering
wholesome,feel good themed movies with sweet,simple, goofy and
memorable leads..Name him please.

26. Three time
Oscar winner for
Best Director
Frank Capra

27. Five simple visual connects
All lead to 5 legendary ladies from varied fields.
They have almost nothing in common,
Except their excellence,success and the long visual connect
that I require.
This is an exhaustive list and only these five women belong to it.
Answer the connects here,as usual.
The overall long visual connect has to Dmed to me.
Multiple attempts allowed.
Let’s go !

28. Scoring pattern for stage 2

29. 13.Give me the name of
someone whose name has
become synonymous
with excellence at
her art.

30. The Nightingale of India

31.  ‘Aayega Aanewala’ song from “Mahal” was her big break
 Lata Eau De Perfum(named in her honour)
 She considers Kajol to be the
favourite actress she has sung for.
 PM Nehru at one performance of ‘Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon’
(cropped her out)
 In 1974, The Guinness Book of Records listed Lata Mangeshkar as
the most recorded artist in history
(although it has been challenged several times)

32. 14.
+20/-8

35. 15.Connect to someone
who is a pioneer in more ways
than one.

38. 16.Connect
+10/-4

41. 17.Give me the name of a “grand
old lady” from this.
+5/-2

44. The only women who
have received
The
Bharat Ratna
So Far !