International Women's day quiz 2018

Q1.
Whose name has been blanked out?

Q2.
Synchronised swimming is a hybrid form of swimming, dance,
and gymnastics, consisting of swimmers performing a synchronised routine
either solo, duet, mixed duet, free team, free combination, and highlight of
elaborate moves in the water, accompanied by music. At the turn of the 20th
century, synchronised swimming was known as water ballet. The first
recorded competition was in 1891 in Berlin, Germany. From 1984 through
1992, the Summer Olympic Games featured solo and duet competitions, but
they were both dropped in 1996 in favor of team competition. At the 2000
Olympic Games, however, the duet competition was restored and is now
featured alongside the team competition.
What is unique about this sport event?

ONLY OLYMPIC SPORT EVENT RESTRICTED FOR WOMEN’S

Q3.
She is an Indian female artistic gymnast, representing at international
competitions. She won bronze medal in 2018 World Cup Gymnastics in
women's vault event in Melbourne. She created history by becoming the
first Indian to clinch a medal at Gymnastics World Cup. She competed at
world championships, including the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics
Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.
Who is she?
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Q4.
With the tagline #checkoutmygame an advertisement was released on March
8, 2015 celebrating International Women’s Day featuring Sania Nehwal And
Mary Kom.
Whose Ad was This?

Q6.
Aditi Chauhan is an Indian women's professional footballer who plays as
a goalkeeper for _____________________ ladies team and the India
women's national football team. In August 2015, Chauhan
joined ________________ ladies. She made her debut on 16 August 2015 in
a 0–5 defeat by Coventry Ladies and in doing so became the first player
from the India national women’s team to play competitively in England and
the first Indian woman to play in English league football.
FILL IN THE BLANKS……
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Q1.
Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is an Indian American business executive and
the current Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of _________, the
second largest food and beverage business in the world by net revenue.
She has consistently ranked among the World's 100 Most Powerful
Women. In 2014, she was ranked at #13 on the list of Forbes World's 100
most powerful women,and was ranked the 2nd most powerful woman on
the Fortune list in 2015. In February 2018, the International Cricket
Council announced that Nooyi would join the ICC Board as its first
independent female director in June.
FILL IN THE BLANKS…….
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Q2.
She was born in Canada and has roots in Mumbai. Apart from being a
neurosurgeon she is a competitive taekwondo athlete and has learnt French,
Spanish and Russian. After doing a B.Sc in neuroscience at University of
Alberta, she did an M.Sc. in space sciences at International Space University.
After that, she did an MD in Medicine from University of Alberta. She was
one of two candidates shortlisted from 3,200 people in the Citizen Science
Astronaut program and will likely fly with eight other astronauts in 2018.
Name her….
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Q3.
Avani Chaturvedi from Satna district in Madhya Pradesh was declared as
the _______ along with two of her cohort, Mohana Singh, and Bhawana
Kanth. The trio was inducted into the Indian Air Force fighter squadron in
June 2016. They were formally commissioned by Defence Minister Manohar
Parrikar. After completing one year of rigorous training at Air Force
Academy at Dundigal , she became a fighter pilot in June 2016. In 2018, she
took a solo flight in a MiG-21 and achieved this title.
What was her achievement?
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FIRST INDIAN WOMEN IAF FIGHTER PILOT

Q4.
PLOT FROM ANIMATION FILM PLANES:
She is a reigning Pan-Asian champion from India, Ishani is easy on the eyes,
but ruthless in the skies. She has amazed more than a billion loyal fans—
including one rookie racer who turns to her for guidance. Exotic and
mysterious, Ishani is full of surprises, but always has her eye on the prize.
Ishani is a strong, spirited and talented racer. She is very focused on
winning.
Which famous Bollywood celebrity lent her voice?
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Q5.
Khwairamband Bazaar, also known as the Ema Bazaar, or Nupi Keithel,
literally means Mother’s Market. Main items found here include handloom
and handicraft products. This is also one of the oldest markets with its rich
tradition intact. Built in around 1533 AD, the amazing Ema Keithel was
borne out of a desperate will to survive more than a well planned economical
set up. The Manipur kingdom was once doomed by the Lallup-Kapa, which
was an old form of human exploitation where men folks were deployed to
work in far away paddy fields, which left the women to look after the
children. The role of women hence emerged as central and plays a bigger role
in the family. The trend of a bazaar run by women had continued even to
this day.
What is the significance of this market?

LARGEST ALL WOMEN MARKET IN ASIA

Q6.
Bollywood diva, Parineeti Chopra has now been appointed as the first
Indian woman ambassador in ''Friends of _________'' (FOA) advocacy
panel. The ''Friends of ________'' programme has been devised as a way of
fostering mutually beneficial, long-term friendship with those that they
regards as unique storytellers. The panel also includes influential
personalities like chef Sanjeev Kapoor and cricket commentator Harsha
Bhogle.
Whose brand ambassador?

Q7.
This was the Women's Regiment of the Indian National Army, the armed force formed
by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia with the aim of overthrowing the
British Raj in colonial India. Led by Captain Lakshmi Swaminathan, the unit was raised
in July 1943 with volunteers from the expatriate Indian population in South East Asia.
Most of the women were teenage volunteers of Indian descent from Malayan rubber
estates; very few had ever been to India. The initial nucleus of the force was
established with its training camp in Singapore. After the fall of Rangoon and the
withdrawal of the Azad Hind government and Subhas Chandra Bose from the city and
through Burma, the unit was disbanded.
Name the unit…..
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Q1.
Mamang Dai is an Indian poet, novelist and journalist based
in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. She received ________ _________ award in
2017 for her novel The Black Hill.
Her non-fictional works includes Arunachal Pradesh: The Hidden Land
and Mountain Harvest: The Food of Arunachal. The Sky Queen and Once
Upon a Moontime. She published her first novel, The Legends of Pensam
which was followed by Stupid Cupid and The Black Hill. River Poems, The
balm of time, Hambreelsai's Loom, Midsummer Survival Lyrics are her
poetry collection. She has also received Padma Shri in 2011 from the
Government of India.
What award did she received?
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Q2.
Dance, comes in a shapely anthropomorphic bottle, “Make your body speak
for you when you want to say something important,” says the advertising
copy describing the fragrance. Dance is manufactured and marketed by the
Spanish fashion and fragrance giant Puig. The company’s line also features
five other fragrances including one called Rock!, and Wild Elixir, billed as
“the scent of adventure.”
Who is the famous owner of this brand?
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Q3.
She was an Indian model and purser for the airline Pan American World
Airways who lost her life trying to save passengers on Pan Am Flight 73,
which was hijacked by terrorists. For her bravery, the Government of
India awarded her the Ashoka Chakra Award. She is the youngest
recipient and the first woman recipient of this award. She has also
received Tamgha-e-Pakistan award by the Pakistani Government and
Flight Safety Foundation Heroism, by United States Government.
Identify her….
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Q4.
It was 1954, and the director Billy Wilder was filming a scene of the
film The Seven Year Itch on Lexington Avenue between 52nd and 53rd
Street in New York City. In the script, the lead heroine and co-star Tom
Ewell exit a movie theater and a breeze from the subway passing below
lifts her skirt. Instead of rushing to cover her legs, as any decent woman
of that era would have, she exclaims, “Isn't it delicious?”
The photographer Sam Shaw didn’t took any time to click the image and
it became one of the most iconic images in the world of cinema.
Which image am I talking about?
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Q5.
On October 21, 2016 she was selected as a United Nations honorary
ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls, and about less
than two months on December 16, 2016 after the controversial
appointment was made she was stripped from her role.
When it was announced that the scantily-clad comic book character had
been chosen as a figurehead for the feminist campaign, many UN
workers protested.
UN spokesman Jeffrey Brez said "The objective was to reach out to her
fans to raise awareness of UN Sustainable Development”
Who was this famous character?

Q6.
Cheryl Strayed is an American memoirist, novelist, essayist and podcast
host. The author of four books, Torch, _____: From Lost to Found on the
Pacific Crest Trail , Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from
Dear Sugar, Brave Enough .Her award-winning writing has been published
widely in national magazines and anthologies.
The film adaptation of______ was released on December 3, 2014 in the
United States with actress Reese Witherspoon starring as Strayed. The film
was directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and distributed by Fox Searchlight
Pictures.
FILL IN THE BLANKS….
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Q7.
‘X’ is an Indian period drama film fictionalized on the life of queen of Chittor.
In 1303, the Turkic ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, laid siege to the Chittor Fort in
Rajputana. According to legend, the invasion was motivated by the desire to
capture the queen.
An epic poem written in 1540 by Malik Muhammad Jayasi in the Awadhi
language is a fictionalized version of the historic siege of Chittor, which was
being invaded after hearing of the beauty of Queen.
Name ‘X’

Q1.
Dr Amy Mainzer, who works at the space agency’s jet propulsion laboratory
in California, discovered an asteroid 316201 ___________ on 23 June 2010
and under International Astronomical Union rules named after a Nobel
prize winner. The black rock is four kilometres wide and orbits the sun
every five-and-a-half years as part of the main asteroid belt between Mars
and Jupiter.
She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2014. Born on 12 July
1997, she is an activist for female education and the youngest Nobel
Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially
the education of women and children.
After whom is this asteroid named?
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Q2.
‘X’ is a Ukrainian radical feminist activist group intended to
protect women's rights. The organization became internationally known
for organizing controversialtopless protests against social, national, and
international topics. Founded in Ukraine, the group is now based in Paris.
The organization describes itself as "fighting particularly in its
three manifestations - sexual
exploitation of women, dictatorship and religion”. They have been
regularly detained by police in response to their protests.
Identify ‘X’….

Q3.
She is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer,
and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The_______
______Show which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in
history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago. Dubbed
the "Queen of All Media", she is the richest African-Americanand North
America's first multi-billionaire black personand has been ranked the
greatest black philanthropist in American history. Several assessments rank
her as the most influential woman in the world. In 2013, she was awarded
the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obamaand
honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard.
Name her…..

Q4.
Maryam Mirzakhani is an Iranian mathematician and a professor of
mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics
included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory,
and symplectic geometry. On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani was honored
with the ___________ _____________, the most prestigious award in
mathematics. Thus, she became both the first and only woman and the
first Iranian to be honored with the award. The award committee cited
her work in "the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and
their moduli spaces". On 14 July 2017, Mirzakhani died of breast cancer at
the age of 40.
What award did she received?
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Q9.
She is a cultural icon of World War II, representing the women who
worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom
produced munitions and war supplies. She is used as a symbol
of American feminism and women's economic power. Similar images
of women war workers appeared in other countries such as Britain and
Australia.
Images of women workers were widespread in the media as government
posters, and commercial advertising was heavily used by the government
to encourage women to volunteer for wartime service in factories.
She became the subject and title of a song and a Hollywood movie during
WWII.
Identify her……

Q11.
She is the only living head of state in the world to have served during World
War II and she was the only female member of the British royal family to do
so. She joined the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service when she was 18
and learned how to drive a military truck, during which time she also
acquired some serious engine-fixing skills .
Identify her….
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