Finals for the women only quiz conducted at IIT Kharagpur

2. Who are we?
 Known as: Quiz Club, IIT Kharagpur
 Secretly we call ourselves: People's Socialist
Quiz Committee of the Proletarian Republic
of Kharagpur
 Open Society
 Under the banner of the Technology
Students’ Gymkhana

3. Rules
 4 rounds
 2 dries (9 questions each) with bounce and pounce, 2 written
 As Shubham aptly puts it, Shaasan prashan ki ijjat karein
 QM is God
 No animals have been harmed in the making of the this quiz………yet

4. Written Barbie Round
 5 questions based on special edition Barbies, just identify who are the fictional and real life
inspiration for these barbies
 +10/0 for every answer
 +10 additionally if all 5 are correct

5. 1.

6. 2.

7. 3.

8. 4.

9. 5.

10. Exchange Sheets

12. Angela Merkel

14. Amelia Earhart

16. Marilyn Monroe

18. Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games

20. Beyonce

21. Scores Please!

22. Dries Round
10/-5 on the pounce
+10/0 on the bounce

24. 1.
 The image given here is of the famous Javits
Center which was the venue chosen by a
certain someone for the night of November
8,2016.
 The media was quick to point the symbolism of
the person’s choice as this venue had the
largest something (that something is visible in
the visual) and has the day gone differently, the
person in question would have achieved
something thus metaphorically doing away with
it.
 Who was this person and what first would she
have achieved on that day?

25. Safety Slide

26. Hillary Clinton, the first female US President,
breaking the glass ceiling

27. 2. What was finally the name given?
 The original name that was considered was Alexis Texas but since that name had already been
taken by a porn star, a new name with the same kind of framing was considered.

28. Safety Slide

29. Hannah Montana

30. 3. ID either of the Indian dish
 The dish is hard, unleavened bread cooked in most of areas of Rajasthan, and in some parts
of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. It is prized for its long shelf life and high nutritional content,
and, in desert areas, for the minimal quantity of water required for its preparation.
 It is closely related with another bread of its kind popular in the Indian states of Bihar, Jharakhand
and Easter UP which is made up of whole wheat flour and stuffed with Sattu (roasted chickpea
flour) mixed with herbs and spices and then roasted over coal or cow dung cakes or wood then it
is tossed with lots of ghee. This dish was carried by the soldiers in ancient time along with dry
Sattu Powder. It could be consumed on long march or during rest hours.

31. Safety Slide

32. Litti/Sattu

33. 4. Shown below is a Google doodle which
represents a scene from a classic novel. ID
the novel

34. Safety Slide

35. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

36. 5.
 When this particular decision was taken by the government of India in 2016, some online news
agency cheekily said "Not the first time that books are taken from a girl and handed a sewing
machine". Put funda.
 Involves someone who we majorly know for certain “K” pursuits “on screen”

37. Safety Slide

38. Smriti Irani being shifted from HRD to Textiles

39. 6. What secret was thus outed?
 Through the use of forensic linguistics-an investigative technique that helps experts determine
authorship by identifying quirks in a writer’s style by processing it though a software that
determined an author’s linguistic fingerprint, journalists at the Sunday Times were able to
determine the true authorship of a crime fiction book that released in 2013
 The real author had said she wanted to use the pseudonym as she was yearning to go back to
the beginning of a writing career in this new genre, to work without hype or expectation and to
receive totally unvarnished feedback
 The author holds a special place in the childhood of most of us for her most famous work that
made her for sometime the richest woman in the world.

40. Safety Slide

41. J K Rowling was the author behind Roberth
Gabraith

42. 7. Who was this rather “exceptional”
ambassador?
 The United Nations announced on this “person” as the Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of
Woman and Girls, despite frustration from both inside and outside the world organization that the spot
should go to a less sexualized - woman.
 UN staffer Cass DuRant, who held a sign saying “Real Women Deserve a Real Ambassador,” said the
protesters “don’t think that a fictitious……character wearing basically what looks like a Playboy-type
bunny outfit is really the right message we need to send to girls or even boys for that matter.”
 The carefully choreographed ceremony was marred by some 50 UN staffers protesting by the visitors’
entrance to the UN, who then went inside the Economic and Social Council chamber and silently
turned their back to the stage during the opening speech, some with their fists in the air.
 In the next slide, I have both the UN staffers protesting (the way they are protesting is a huge hint
towards the character) and the official ceremony where this announcement was made (the people in
the image should help you work out who was this ambassador)

44. Safety Slide

45. Wonder Woman

46. 8.
 She was an active member of politics at the Oxford Union through the 70s, this person ran a
successful campaign to become the President of the Union in 1976 which many observers at the
time felt was pointless given the far greater peaks that lay ahead.
 Political campaigns at college that involved this person often contained bitter references to the
family’s riches and misdeeds back home at the time, with many suggesting the Union was merely
a springboard for a definite future in a country’s politics.
 Who’s the student being referred to, she also was the first Asian student to head the prestigious
Oxford debating society?

48. Safety Slide

49. Benazir Bhutto

50. 9.
 Who, watching whom perform? The kid
would later go on and become an icon for
women's rights and in her most memorable
roles, would become the ideal for a
generation of girls for the free-spirited and
strong willed portrayal of the onscreen
character she played.

51. Safety Slide

52. Carrie Fisher watching her mother, Debbie
Reynolds perform

53. Women in STEM
 Written Round
 5 questions, written down the answers
 10/0 normally
 +15/-5 on stakes

54. 1.
 Margaret Hamilton is an American computer scientist and systems engineer. She was part of the Charles
Stark Draper Laboratory at MIT in the late 1960s, which at that time was working on a very important
project.
 She eventually led a team that was credited for developing the software for that project, and her expertise
in software development and reliability was critical to the project.
 She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 for her invaluable contributions to that
project.
 What project was she working on, something that the USA was first to achieve?

55. 2.
 Along with Otto Hahn, she led the small group of scientists who first discovered nuclear fission of Uranium
when it absorbed an extra electron, a process which is found at the heart of all Uranium fission reactors.
This discovery of theirs was also critical to the Manhattan Project.
 She was the first female full-time physics professor in Germany, and quite shockingly, did not receive the
1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which was awarded exclusively to Otto Hahn.
 When the records of the Nobel committee were examined in 1990s, her exclusion from the Nobel was
deemed unjust. She received a lot of posthumous honours, including the element 109 being named after
her.
 Who?

56. 3.
 She was an English chemist and X-Ray crystallographer
who made contributions to the understanding of the
molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and
graphite.
 She is best known for her work on X-ray diffraction
images of DNA, particularly photo 51(image on next
slide), while at King’s college, London.
 The 1962 Nobel prize would ideally have been also
awarded to her along with the three others who also
received it, but she passed away in 1958 and the Nobel
Committee does not make posthumous nominations.
 Her pioneering work on the structure of viruses also led
to Aaron Klug, one of her erstwhile team members to
receive the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
 Identify her, someone you might remember from your BS
class.

57. 4.
 She was a Austrian-born American film actress and inventor. Along with her friend and music composer
George Antheil, she created a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed. This they
achieved using a miniaturized player-piano mechanism with radio signals. Their invention was granted a
patent on August 11, 1942. However, at that time the U.S. Navy was not receptive to considering inventions
coming from outside the military.
 This work of theirs on spread spectrum technology led to the development of GPS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
 Who?

58. 5.
 When the Mars exploration rover, ‘Spirit’ landed on Mars in 2004, the first sight visible to it was a series
of 7 low hills. On February 2, 2004, they were named as follows:
• Anderson Hill - named after Michael P. Anderson
• Brown Hill - named after David M. Brown
• Clark Hill - named after Laurel Clark
• Husband Hill - named after Rick Husband
• McCool Hill - named after William C. McCool
• Ramon Hill - named after Ilan Ramon
 Who was the 7th hill named after?

59. Exchange Sheets

60.  Margaret Hamilton is an American computer scientist and systems engineer. She was part of the Charles
Stark Draper Laboratory at MIT in the late 1960s, which at that time was working on a very important
project.
 She eventually led a team that was credited for developing the software for that project, and her expertise
in software development and reliability was critical to the project.
 She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 for her invaluable contributions to that
project.
 What project was she working on, something that the USA was first to achieve?

61. Apollo space program. She programmed the
lunar command module

62. 2.
 Along with Otto Hahn, she led the small group of scientists who first discovered nuclear fission of Uranium
when it absorbed an extra electron, a process which is found at the heart of all Uranium fission reactors.
This discovery of theirs was also critical to the Manhattan Project.
 She was the first female full-time physics professor in Germany, and quite shockingly, did not receive the
1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which was awarded exclusively to Otto Hahn.
 When the records of the Nobel committee were examined in 1990s, her exclusion from the Nobel was
deemed unjust. She received a lot of posthumous honours, including the element 109 being named after
her.
 Who?

63. Lisa Meitner

64.  She was an English chemist and X-Ray crystallographer
who made contributions to the understanding of the
molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and
graphite.
 She is best known for her work on X-ray diffraction
images of DNA, particularly photo 51(image on next
slide), while at King’s college, London.
 The 1962 Nobel prize would ideally have been also
awarded to her along with the three others who also
received it, but she passed away in 1958 and the Nobel
Committee does not make posthumous nominations.
 Her pioneering work on the structure of viruses also led
to Aaron Klug, one of her erstwhile team members to
receive the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
 Identify her, someone you might remember from your BS
class.

65. Rosalind Franklin

66.  She was a Austrian-born American film actress and inventor. Along with her friend and music composer
George Antheil, she created a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed. This they
achieved using a miniaturized player-piano mechanism with radio signals. Their invention was granted a
patent on August 11, 1942. However, at that time the U.S. Navy was not receptive to considering inventions
coming from outside the military.
 This work of theirs on spread spectrum technology led to the development of GPS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
 Who?

67. Hedy Lamarr

68.  When the Mars exploration rover, ‘Spirit’ landed on Mars in 2004, the first sight visible to it was a series of
7 low hills. On February 2, 2004, they were named as follows:
• Anderson Hill - named after Michael P. Anderson
• Brown Hill - named after David M. Brown
• Clark Hill - named after Laurel Clark
• Husband Hill - named after Rick Husband
• McCool Hill - named after William C. McCool
• Ramon Hill - named after Ilan Ramon
 Who was the 7th hill named after?

69. Kalpana Chawla

70. Scores Please!

71. Dries Round
10/-5 on the pounce
+10/0 on the bounce

72. 1.
 In 1962, Shintaro Tsuji, founder of Sanrio, began selling rubber sandals with flowers painted on
them. Tsuji noted the profits gained by adding a cute design to the sandals and hired cartoonists
to design cute characters for his merchandise. The company produced a line of character
merchandise around gift-giving occasions. This creator was then created by Yuko Shimizu and
added to the lineup of Sanrio in 1974.
 Her creator says she got the name of the character from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking
Glass, where in a scene early in the book Alice plays with a cat she calls _____
 Although now over 40 years old, she is a perpetual 3rd grade student who lives outside London
and her brand is believed to be worth over $7 billion a year.
 Identify this iconic character, part of many of our childhood and is considered one of the most
widely recognized brand ambassadors in the world.

73. Safety Slide

74. Hello Kitty

75. 2.
 As a little girl she was fascinated watching her father typing stories on typewriter. She got a
typewriter at the age of 7 and started typing poems.
 When she was only 2 years old she lost one of her step brothers in an road accident. At the age
of 8 she wrote a song inspired by her father 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 Album for 3 albums. In 2013 she was listed on
Forbes as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world. ID?

76. Safety Slide

77. Shakira

78. 3.
 In 1974, an advertisement for recruitments at Telco had a controversial bottom line:”Women do
not need to apply”. This caught someone’s eye. Acting on impulse, she wrote a letter on the
injustice perpetrated to the only person she knew who was associated with the company. She
later went on to call him the “uncrowned king of Indian industry”.
 A week after posting the letter she was asked to appear for an interview in the company and
went on to become the first woman employee of Telco shop floor. ID her.

79. Safety Slide

80. Sudha Murthy

81. 4.
 In 2009, Ursula Burns became the first
African American woman CEO to head
a Fortune 500 company, and the first woman
to succeed another woman as head of a
Fortune 500 company. Which company is
this, whose old logo is displayed here?

82. Safety Slide

83. Xerox

84. 5. Identify the lady or her husband.
 In the adjacent picture, you see Kristin Ann
Scott Thomas playing this character in a
recently released acclaimed movie.
 The character she plays is credited by her
husband for being his unshakeable rock even
when everyone was questioning his
leadership during his countries “Darkest
Hour”
 She is said to have kept her husband quite
honest and pushed him to pursue women
voting rights in spite of his reservations

85. Safety Slide

86. Clementine Churchill

87. 6.
 In a stressed situation, while experiencing the “fight-or flight” response, signals from the
hypothalamus and pituitary gland go to the adrenal glands, which sit on top of each kidney.
 The adrenal glands release adrenaline into your blood stream causing rapid heart rate, increased
blood pressure and improved muscle circulation.
 At the same time that blood is flowing to your lungs and muscles, less of it is reaching other
organs including your stomach. This and other hormonal changes may cause nausea. • How
would a layman know this process as?

88. Safety Slide

89. Butterflies in one’s stomach

90. 7. How do we Anna Grosholtz better?
 Anna Grosholtz (1761–1850), was born in Strasbourg, France. Her mother worked as a
housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician which contributed
to her later works and was the one who taught her the “art” which made her famous.
 Her first work was of Voltaire, and later included Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin. Some of her
works were preceded by a search through corpses to find the decapitated heads of executed or
dead citizens.
 She married Francois ______ in 1795, and then she acquired the new name by which we know her
better
 Hint: think of a major tourist attraction in London

91. Safety Slide

93. 8.
 Margaret Thatcher was Education Secretary in 1971 in Edward Heath’s government. She made a
notorious decision of limiting free milk for school kids from the previous age limit of 18 to 7. This
decision earned her nickname XY, which haunted her rest of her career and was rhyming with her
surname?

94. Safety Slide

95. Milk Snatcher

96. 9.
 Who about which character? “<first name> means sorrow, something the character undoubtedly
inflicts on those around. <second name> is a play on ‘______’ from the British expression to ‘take
_________’ meaning to take offence. The character is offended by any challenge to their limited
world view; I felt the surname conveyed the pettiness and rigidity of the character.”
 Stephen King, in a review for 11 July 2003 Entertainment Weekly, noted that the success of any
novel is due to a great villain, with this character being “the greatest make-believe villain to have
come along since Hannibal Lecter”

97. Safety Slide

98. J.K. Rowling on Dolores Umbridge