Women’s Day Quiz - Amity Department

Rules
1. 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!”?

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?

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?

5. Her political party ended the
CPI(M)’s 34 year rule in a particular
Indian State. Her motto is – Ma Mati
Manush. Who?

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?

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?

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?

9. Who succeeded Somnath
Chatterjee to become the first
woman speaker in the Indian Lok
Sabha?

10. Who is the first Indian female
athlete to surpass US $ 1 million in
career earnings?

1. Which person of Indian origin is
the 4th highest earning female CEO
in the world?

2. Identify the
chairperson of
Biocon.

3. This is Angela
Merkel, leader of
which European
country? She
became the first
woman to become
chancellor of the
country.

4. Which British singer – songwriter
won 6 Grammy Awards in 2012 and
the 2013 Oscar award for best song?

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.

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?

8. Identify this
social activist.

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?

10. Which famous author’s
middle name Is Kathleen?

Round 3 – For your eyes only

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

1. Which country in the Southern
Hemisphere was the first country to
allow voting rights to women?

2. What is celebrated in East India to
remember the victory of good over
the evil mahisashura?

3. Who was the first woman to fly
across the Atlantic Ocean? Mira Nair
produced a film on her life as well.

4. If Michelle Obama is one of the
two US first ladies to feature on the
cover of Vogue, name the other
one?

5. Childhood photo of which
Indian actress?

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?

7. Which current tennis superstar is
the richest female tennis player ever,
due to her record breaking
endorsement deals?

8. She missed out on an olympic
bronze medal by 0.1 microseconds –
coming 4th in the 1984 olympics.
Which Indian athlete?

9. Which hollywood personality has
adopted children called Shiloh,
Zahara, Pax, Maddox, Knox and
Vivienne?

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?

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?

2. Who won the 1998 Man Booker
Prize for fiction for her novel – The
God of Small Things (1997) ?a

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?

4. Who, in 1997, became the first
India – born woman to go into
space?

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?

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.

8. What in India, used by women, is
defined by the Marriam – Webster
Dictionary as “Four to Nine Yards of
Cloth.”?

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?

10. Statistically, what is the largest
spoken ‘first word’ of babies around
the world?

Amity International Business
School
Presents
Women’s Day Quiz

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

Women’s Day Quiz - Amity Department

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