General Quiz with a Feminine Touch

1. THE WOMENSTRUATION
QUIZ

3. There are 30 questions
15 Clockwise. 15 Anti-Clockwise
10 points each
 No negatives.. Guess all you want!
Infinite Bounce/ Finite Pounce
The Quizmasternis are very sweet; ask a hint nicely and they may
oblige
 However do not test their patience or they will turn into Angry
Indian Goddesses

5. Lets Get Quizzing!!

6. Q1
• These have been mentioned as early as the 10th century, in
the Suda (a massive 10th-century Byzantine encyclopaedia
of the ancient Mediterranean world), where Hypatia (a
Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher in
Egypt), who lived in the 4th century AD, was said to have
thrown one of her used ones at an admirer in an attempt to
discourage him.
• Earlier and even today in some places use of rags as a
substitute for the modern version led to the origin of a
phrase which is used colloquially to refer to the situation in
which it is used.
• 10 points for the phrase

8. “On the rag”

9. Q2
• Kiron Kher had a unique credit in the titles of X for title-writing
as she suggested the title X.
• Which cult movie?

11. DDLJ

12. Q3
• This beauty brand was started in 1952 famously, because the
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was concerned that Indian
women were spending precious foreign exchange on beauty
products and personally requested JRD Tata to manufacture them
in India.
• It is named after the French form of Lakshmi, the Goddess of
wealth who is renowned for her beauty.

15. Q4
•Id this owner of a
very familiar and
sensuous voice
•Think TV

17. Atul Kapoor, Voice of Bigg Boss

18. Q5
It was patented by X in the year 1871 as an alternative to
suspenders for vests, pantaloons, or other garments requiring straps.
Id X ?
Pic following

19. Hint: Friend of Nikola Tesla went for a
swim in the deep river.

21. MarkTwain

22. Q6
Name this record breaking cricketer who earned
the sobriquet "Lady Bedi" as during her playing
days, she used to receive bowling tips from
Bishan Singh Bedi.

25. •Diana Edulji

26. Q7 Connect
• X is an extremely combative variant of the card game Whist that
is popular in the United Kingdom and is similar to the North
American game Hearts. Commonly played among large groups of
players, typically 8 to 10, using two decks of cards, or it can be
played by as few as three players using a single deck. Takes its
name from the highest valued card- The Queen of Spades.
• Darlington Raceway is a race track built for NASCAR racing
located in South Carolina. It is nicknamed X and "The Track Too
Tough to Tame" by many NASCAR fans and drivers and
advertised as "A NASCAR Tradition.
• X has a relation to Indian Entertainment Industry as well.

29. The Black Lady

30. Q8
• Upon arrival, the nurse who took care of the family could not get
into the flat, but eventually gained access with the help of a
workman. They found X dead of carbon monoxide poisoning with
her head in the oven, having sealed the rooms between her and
her sleeping children with wet towels and cloths. At
approximately 4:30 am, X had placed her head in the oven, with
the gas turned on. She was 30 years old.
• Name this poetess who was famously married to another famous
poet.

32. Sylvia Plath

33. Q 9 Id this Beauty with Brains

35. Reita Faria, First Indian MissWorld

36. Q10
• The Coccinellidae are generally considered useful insects, because many
species feed on aphids or scale insects, which are pests in gardens,
agricultural fields, orchards, and similar places. Within the colonies of
such plant-eating pests, they will lay hundreds of eggs, and when these
hatch, the larvae will commence feeding immediately. However, some
species do have unwelcome effects; which are plant eaters.. They occur in
practically all the major crop-producing regions of temperate and tropical
countries.
• Coccinellids are, and have been for very many years, an insect of interest
and favour for children. The insects had many regional names (now
mostly disused) in English, such as variations on Bishop-Barnaby,
Barnabee, Burnabee, the Bishop-that-burneth, and bishy bishy
barnabee. The etymology is unclear, but it may be from St. Barnabas' feast
in June, when the insect appears, or a corruption of "Bishop-that-
burneth", from the fiery exterior.
• What is their more common name?

38. The Lady Bug

39. Q11
She is among the prominent females who figure in the Upanishads. She was
as knowledgeable in Vedas and Upanishads as men of the Vedic times and
could very well contest the male-philosophers in debates.
Her name appears in the Grihya Sutras of Asvalayana. She had even
awakened her Kundalini (indwelling spiritual energy).
In her dialogue with Pandit Mandan Mishra on the subject of sex she had
won her arguments as she was a realized soul. She was a leading scholar
who also made rich contributions to propagate education.
Who am I talking about?

41. •Gargi Vachanakavi

42. Q12
• On October 24 1975, 90% of Iceland's women refused to work,
cook or look after children. The effect was incredible.
• It was a spur to action and many feel that the solidarity women
showed that day paved the way for the election five years later of
Vigdis Finnbogadottir, the world's first democratically elected
female president. Finnbogadottir firmly believes that too. "After
October 24, women thought it was time a woman became
president," she says. "The finger was pointed at me and I accepted
the challenge.“
• 30 years later in 2015, women of the country decided to stage a
protest to highlight discrimination at the workplace by leaving
their work at exactly 2:08pm.
• Why that odd timing?

44. To draw attention to the Gender Pay
Gap

45. Q13 What does the map
indicate?

47. Sex Ratios around the world

48. Q14
Connect

52. Smriti Irani
Tyeb Mehta, painted Kali Anjali Gopalan, Alumni of JNU

53. Q15
• Born in Ninteen Sixty Seven
• Can give you a taste of heaven
• Am the wittiest kid on the block
• And I wear a pink polka dotted frock!

55. The Amul Girl

56. Q16
• Rosalie Duthe was a celebrated French courtesan and a
companion of French kings and European nobility
• In Parisian society Duthé developed a certain "reputation by
adopting the habit of pausing for extended periods of time before
speaking“ which made her appear X in two senses of the word.
One of them being “temporarily unable or unwilling to speak”
• This gave rise to the popular stereotype XY
• The picture should give you a clue

59. Dumb Blonde

60. Q17
•X was invented by Theophilius Van Kannel in
1881 and patented as "Tür ohne Luftzug“
•Van Kannel was reportedly motivated by his
phobia of _________for others, especially
women
•The original patent diagram on the next slide

63. The Revolving Door

64. Q18
• Uma Thurman’s character Mia Wallace wore this cosmetic
product in the iconic movie Pulp Fiction.
• The shade was originally called Rouge Noir and flew off the
shelves. There was even a 3 month waiting period at one point.
This led the makers to introduce other products in the same line.
• The product was worn again by Madonna in her 1994 music video
for “Take a Bow”
• What is this product?

67. Nail Polish

68. Q19

70. UNWomen

71. Q20 Id The Lonely Lady

73. Mirabai

74. Q21
•X’s clients include Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in
his fight against extradition. X has also represented the former
prime minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, and Canadian-
Egyptian journalist Mohamed Fahmy.
•However she garnered huge media attention after her marriage.
• The bloggers at the Business Women were perhaps a bit
disappointed for they wrote “X, a 36 year old London-based dual-
qualified English barrister and New York litigation attorney who
has long been a high-profile figure in international refugee and
human rights law has gone against the trend for professional
women in her field and married… an actor”
• Id this very famous Oxonian.

76. Amal Alam Uddin

77. Q22
X was Pixar's first female lead character in their
thirteenth movie , and she appeared in a blaze of self-
possession. While on paper she was a princess, she had
absolutely no intention of settling quietly into married
life with a handsome prince. X knew her own mind, and
set out to make sure she could keep her independence.
Though X's journey starts out as a stereotypical
princess-in-a-castle fairy story, it escalates into a dark
folk tale about dangerous magic, fate, and the changing
relationship that every growing teenage daughter has
with her mother.
Who is this one of the more empowered Disney
princesses?

79. Merida

80. Q23
• Behind every successful man there is a woman.
• X’s contribution to her husband’s work is quite a debatable
subject, even today. Particularly, with regards to the Annus
Mirabilis papers.
• Though, it is not known how - Y, her husband , claimed that his
wife always solved his mathematical problems. In fact, Y had said
that he married X because he loved her and needed her. He even
claimed to owe his success to X and she being his “general source
of inspiration, protective angel” in both life and science. But how
much of a physicist this lady was, remains a mystery.
• In the letters Y sent to his wife , he used “our” work and “our”
theories, clearly showing that somewhere she was his right hand .
However, X’s tale is that of a forgotten hero.
• ID the couple.

82. X-Mileva Maric
Y – Albert Einstein

83. Q24
Considered one of the most iconic female centred works
of literature of all time, this book had several working
titles such as "Tomorrow is Another Day," "Not in Our
Stars", "Bugles Sang True" and "Tote the Weary Load".
The most famous one was, "Ba! Ba! Black Sheep".
The final title was, however, the blanked out portion of
this poem by Ernest Dowson
I have forgot much, Cynara! ____ ____ ___ ____,
Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng,
Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, all the time, because the dance was long;
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

86. Q25
•ID the Indian mythological characters in
the following posters

90. Q26 What timeline?

93. Q27
• During the WWI since most men were joining the military,
women in the UK were required to fill factory jobs formerly
occupied by men. The government used slogans like 'National
Service' or 'Women's Land Army' to encourage young women to
join the work force.
• _________ were the United Kingdom's female trinitrotoluene
(TNT) shell makers of WWI. The nickname arose because
exposure to TNT is toxic, and repeated exposure can turn the skin
an orange-yellow colour reminiscent of the plumage of a bird, the
X which itself was used by miners to detect toxic carbon
monoxide in coal mines.
• They were also referred to by the nickname “munitionettes”.

95. Canary Girls

96. Q28 ID the minimal

99. Q29
• Kavera Muni, a great sage, selected Brahmagiri in Coorg as a place
suitable for meditation and there prayed to Lord Brahma for
children. Brahma gave him Lopamudra for a daughter.
• Lopamudra, also known as Kaveri, married sage Agastya on the
condition that her husband shall not leave her alone at any time.
On one occasion, sage Agastya put his wife in his kamandala
(water pot) and went for a bath. Enraged by the betrayal, Kaveri
spills out of the pot and flows away as a raging river. Agastya tries
to stop her.
• Mythological origin of what common practice?

101. Coorgi Saree

102. Q30
Human and Killer Whale females are the only species known to
live at least a few decades past this biological milestone.
While some scientists believe this phenomenon in humans is
simply due to the advancement in medicine and technology,
research suggests that there may be evolutionary advantages to it
Name the milestone

104. Menopause

106. Q31
• X was born as Rose Dawn and hails from Essex in the U.K.. X was
an extra in 3 Harry Potter films - Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Identify X and tell
why is X in limelight in recent times.