Prelims 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
 Solo prelims
 Top 24 qualify, with 1st being teamed with the 9th and 18th and so on
 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. 1. What event thus began?
 After a significant victory in the October Revolution in erstwhile Soviet Union, the Bolshevik
Kollontai and Lenin made this day an official holiday with the commentary that, “in
commemoration of the outstanding merits of Soviet _____ in communistic construction, in the
defense of their Fatherland during the Great Patriotic War, in their heroism and selflessness at the
front and in the rear, and also marking the great contribution of _____ to strengthening friendship
between peoples, and the struggle for peace.
 The holiday thus began to be celebrated in predominantly communist countries until it was
adopted in 1975 by the United Nations.
 Some of the themes declared by the United Nations have included, “A Promise is a Promise: Time
for Action to End Violence Against _____”, “Planet 50-50 by 2030”, “Time is Now”

5. International Women’s Day

6.  A certain Naomi Parker-Frahley died in her Longview home on Jan. 20, 2018, after a battle with
cancer. She was 96. Her name, however, has been immortalised as one of the most iconic cultural
and political icons of the 20th century. The story goes as follows - After the 1941 bombing of Pearl
Harbor, Naomi and her sister worked as mechanics at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Alameda, Calif.
 They were among the first females hired on the base as full-time mechanics. Shortly after Parker-
Fraley started the job, a news photographer from United Press International visited the base to
capture the early women workers. He snapped a few shots of her peering over a turret lathe.
 A local newspaper featured one of the lathe photos with a caption observing the “de-glamorized”
navy uniform “hasn’t made Miss Naomi Parker any less attractive.” The sisters clipped out the
photo, which appeared across newspapers and magazines nationwide. How do we know her better?
Or what is Naomi’s claim to fame?

8. Rosie the Riveter

9. 3.
 Social activist and community organizer Tarana Burke created the phrase “X" on the MySpace
social network in 2006 as part of a grassroots campaign to promote "empowerment through
empathy" among women of color who have experienced __ __, particularly within
underprivileged communities.
 Burke, who is creating a documentary titled X, has said she was inspired to use the phrase after
being unable to respond to a 13-year-old girl who confided to her that she had been __ ___.
Burke later wished she had simply told the girl, “X".
 X spread virally on social media in October 2017 to denounce __ __, directed towards a particular
individual.
 ID X

10. #metoo

11. 4. ID this Ashok Chakra awardee seen here in
modelling for some vintage brands.

12. Neerja Bhanot

13. 5.
 X initially started as women’s cigarette brand,
with the tag line “Mild As May” and went as
far as making special lipstick friendly tips.
 But as the popularity of filter cigarettes grew
over the concern of lung cancer, X flipped its
image and made a rugged cowboy its
mascot, now famous as the Y.
 The trick worked, and today, X commands
almost one-fourth of the global cigarette
market share.

15. Marlboro

16. 6.
 The Times of India, on 31st July 2013, published an article with the title: “At 66, Mother India gets
ready for her 29th baby”.
 The ‘baby’ finally came into life on 2 June 2014.
 ‘Who’ is the 29th baby of Mother India?

17. Telangana

18. 7.
 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 the origin story of what
very suavely used gentlemanly 2 word phrase?

19. Ladies first

20. 8. Who is this extremely photogenic female?
 The wife of a wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo has become very famous
across the world. She gave birth to five children and the couple lived happily together.
 Francesco commissioned a portrait to celebrate the birth of their son and the purchase
of a house.
 In her last years, after her husband died, she lived with her daughters till the age of 63.

21. Mona Lisa

22. 9.
 Ever since the blue box café opened in New
York mid –November 2016 ,people have
been queuing up to order a rather
overpriced set (at $29) from their menu
served with a coffee or tea, a croissant,
seasonal fruit and berries ,a choice of
smoked salmon and a bagel stack ,truffle
eggs ,avocado toast or a butterfly waffle.
 What is this set , popular especially among
cinephiles , called ?

23. Breakfast at Tiffany’s

24. 10. ID this powerful personality
 She is the first woman to lead an India-based Fortune India 500 company.
 Born in Kolkata to a Bengali family, she studied at Calcutta’s Lady Brabourne College and then
at Jadavpur University. Her husband is an ex-professor of IIT Kharagpur and this is perhaps the
reason she has served her organisation at Kharagpur too.
 She was given the 25th position by Forbes in its 2016 ranking of the world’s most powerful
women. She has been recognized for her head strong leadership while leading her organization
through one of the most turbulent times faced by her sector.

25. Arundhati Bhattachrya

26. 11. ID this famous series
 In this 21st century parody reboot of this
particularly famous series, Julian, Dick, Anne,
George and their dog, Timmy face modern
dilemmas such as Brexit, clean eating and
becoming parents and dealing with hangovers.
 While their friendship remains intact, the gang
now document their adventures on Twitter,
catch an Uber cab rather than go cycling, and
wash down their gluten-free diet with alcoholic
ginger beer.
 The series would have been a quintessential
part of a lot of ours childhood.

27. Famous Five

28. 12. What is this name?
 The name was one of the many invented by the writer. The name derives from a Hebrew phrase
meaning "God is my judge" and the Greek Goddess of destruction Eris.
 The name gained popularity in recent years due to a certain pop culture phenomenon,
something, we as Kgpians are extremely hooked to and has seen about 5000 female babies been
named so since 2015.

29. Khaleesi

30. 13.
 Pictured here is the batsmen from the Indian
women’s cricket team, Harmanpreet Kaur.
 Give the funda why she would keep her
jersey number 84.

31. As a nod to the 1984 Sikh riots

32. 14. ID X
 X syndrome is an extremely rare intestinal disorder in the humans resulting from eating hair. The
syndrome is named after a character who has been a part of all our childhood. Its origins have
been traced back to 3rd century Saint Barbara and the 10th century tale of Princess Rudaba
of Kabul.

33. Rapunzel

34. 15.
 In the late ‘60s, this now-ubiquitous brand was struggling to keep up with their rival Polson. They
sought the help of Sylvester Da Cunha, who came up with something as a counterpart to a
successful marketing ploy by Polson. The popularity of this creation grew and with it, the fortunes
of the brand.
 Identify the creation, which is can be considered an unofficial chronicler of modern India.

35. Amul Girl

36. 16.
 Identify this cigar brand, which were a
favorite of Winston Churchill from the logo of
the brand given here.

37. Romeo Juliet

38. 17.
 This newly discovered wasp from Southeast
Asia, scientific name Ampulex ________, was
chosen by the public due to its ability to
paralyze cockroaches and suck the life out of
them turning them int effective zombies.
 Fill in the blank with certain creatures from
popular culture who also act similarly.

39. Dementors

40. 18. What special technique is used to train
the butlers of Burj-Al Arab?
 The Burj Al Arab is super luxury hotel in Dubai built for $1 billion and stands 56 floors tall. The
hotel staff is dedicated to providing the best experience to its client base and thus takes great
care to train its staff.
 Part of its training involves making its staff do something to learn the etiquettes of treating its
clients correctly in the time honored tradition as was originally intended.
 What are they made to do, a pop culture reference that has actually increased the demands for
butlers across the world

41. Makes them watch Downtown Abbey