The document is a quiz about famous women from around the world. It contains 20 multiple choice questions with answers about prominent female figures such as Shakuntala Devi, Malala Yousafzai, Sheryl Sandberg, Naina Lal Kidwai, Helen Keller, Arunima Sinha, and Nadia Comaneci. The questions cover a wide range of topics including literature, business, activism, sports, and history.

1. Women’s Day Quiz
Prelims

2. Rules
• 30 Questions
• Prime Numbered Questions will be used for
Tie Breakers.
• No negative marking, feel free to guess.

3. 1. Id X.
• X’s father worked in a circus as a trapeze
performer, and later as a lion tamer.
• X was very good with card tricks among other
things.
• Her tricks were based on memorization of
cards rather than by sleight of hand.
• She has authored many books such as, The
World of Homosexuals.

4. Shakuntala Devi

5. 2.Given below is my fictional
biography.
• My full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. In a series of novels
published by Random House in the 1960s, my parents' names
are given as George and Margaret Roberts from the fictional
town of Willows, Wisconsin. In the Random House novels, I
attended Willows High School.
• I have over 40 pets including cats and dogs, horses, a panda, a
lion cub, and a zebra. I own a wide range of vehicles,
including pink Corvette convertibles, trailers, and jeeps. I also
hold a pilot's license, and operate commercial airliners in
addition to serving as a flight attendant. My career is designed
to show that women can take on a variety of roles in life, and I
have been sold with a wide range of titles.WHO AM I ?

6. Barbie

7. 3.Who is she?
• As a little girl, she was fascinated watching her father
typing stories on the typewriter. She got a typewriter at the
age of 7 and started typing poetries. When she was only 2
year old, she had lost one of her 8 step brothers in a road
accident. At the age of 8, she wrote a song which was
inspired by her father who wore dark glasses for 4 whole
years to hide the grief of losing his son. At the age of 13,
she was signed by Sony Music for 3 albums.
• In 2013, she was listed on Forbes as one of the 100 most
powerful women in the world.
• Hint – Think Latin America

8. Shakira

9. 4. Id X.
• Former Victoria's Secret Angel Miranda Kerr is the face of X.
• The X is a type of Y that gained worldwide prominence in
the 1990s. Although the X name was first trademarked in
the U.S. in 1955, the brand was developed in Canada.
• Moses (Moe) Nadler, founder and majority owner of the
Canadian Lady Corset Company, licensed the trademark for
the Canadian market in 1939. By the 1960s the Canadian
Lady brand had become known in Canada as “X, the
company." In 1961 the company introduced the Model
1300 . This became one of the best-selling Canadian styles
and is virtually identical to today's X.

10. Wonderbra

11. 5.Who am I ?
• I am the first Indian woman to graduate from
Harvard Business School. I am also the first
woman to guide the functioning of a foreign
bank in India. I was also the first ever female
president of FICCI.

12. Naina Lal Kidwai

13. 6. Identify.

14. Malala Yousafzai

15. 7. Id X.
• X is a Harvard alumnus. Eric Schmidt, then CEO of
Google, said the following to convince her to join
them - “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship,
you don’t ask what seat. You just get on.”
• X joined Google and later left the company to join
a competitor. She went on to become one of the
youngest female billionaires in the world and is
6th on the Forbes list of the 100 most powerful
women in the world.

16. Sheryl Sandberg

17. 8. Who is this doodle for ?

18. Shakuntala Devi

19. 9. Put Funda.

20. Anushka Sharma’s Lipjob.

21. 10.Minimal Poster of which Movie ?

22. Chak De India

23. 11.
• 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 ?

24. Eve from Wall-E

25. 12. Who is she ?
• She is referred to by different names.
• Krishna (one who has dark complexion)
• Yajnaseni (one born from a Yajna or fire-
sacrifice)
• Sairandhri (literally: an expert maid, her
assumed name during her second exile

26. Panchali or Draupadi

27. 13.
• 1 _____ = 3.7*10^10 becquerel

28. Curie

29. 14.
• X syndrome is an extremely rare intestinal
disorder in humans resulting from eating hair
• The syndrome is named after a character
whose origins have been traced back to the
3rd century Saint Barbara and the 10th
century tale of Princess Rudaba of Kabul
• Id X .

30. Rapunzel

31. 17.Id X or the thing she is famous for.
• X was employed to make DEATH MASKS of the
victims of the guillotine during French
Revolution, including some of the Revolutions
most infamous dead such as Louis XVI, Marat,
and Robespierre. Also others like Voltaire,
Benjamin Franklin etc.
• Thus gradually shot into fame. These days X’s
name is associated with an iconic tourist
attraction.

32. Madame Tussauds

33. 16.
• 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?

34. Ladies First

35. 17. Id X
• 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.

36. Helen Keller

37. 18.
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.

38. Arunima Sinha

39. 19.
• Stibnite
• Antimony sulfide
• Lead sulfide
• Henna
• Galena
• Ingredients of what pre dynastic thing?

40. Kohl ( Kajal)

41. 20.
Who was the first female to
get a perfect 10.0 score in
gymnastics?

42. Nadia Comaneci