The She Quiz; Prelims with answers
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The document outlines various notable individuals, achievements, and movements, highlighting contributions from women in sports, literature, and social activism. It discusses specific events, like the 2012 Delhi gang rape that spurred public awareness and movements for women's safety in India. Additionally, it covers influential figures in feminism and their literary and cultural impact over the years.
The She Quiz; Prelims with answers
- 1. Researched and Conducted by:- ANKUR AGRAJ
- 2. Karthik Panigrahi Megha Srigyan MedhaVerma
- 3. 20 question Questions 2,5,13,15,20 are star marked Phones in the bag QM is the boss . Don’t mess with him
- 4. Name the first Asian woman to be the president of Oxford Union. #kolzstyle
- 6. Though disputed but the origin of this phrase comes from an ancient practice in Germany where long ago, lovers whose marriages were opposed by their families would jump off a cliff to prove their love. But women when their turn came after seeing their men jump would get cold feet and return home to marry another man.Thus came the suavely used gentlemanly phrase.
- 8. The new Indian social media fad was inspired from something that went viral around a last few years. It was originally started by Hyderabad-based Manju Latha Kalanidhi. She defines it as “My own local, practical and tangible version/response to _____________.”This soon became popular all around India.
- 10. "Initially we were asking the question, 'Do men care about gender equality?' and we found out that they do care", said Elizabeth Nyamayaro, senior adviser to the executive director of UNWomen. "Then we started to get a lot of emails from men who signed up, who now want to do more." Which UNWomen initiative is being talked about?
- 16. Also known as the "enchantress of numbers," . X was a champion forY’s calculating machine, the Analytical Engine, when no one else was. She is celebrated for having the foresight that an instrument of this kind had endless practical and scientific uses. Looking at how much technology is integrated into our lives today, we'd say she was absolutely right. X drafted a plan of how the Analytical Engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers, a plan that is now considered the first "computer program."
- 18. Deepa Malik created history in the Rio Paralymics by being the first woman to achieve something.What did she achieve and in which sport?
- 19. First female Paralympics medal winner for India in F-53 Shot Put.
- 24. X was a 30-year old mother of two when she competed at the grand stage of the 1948 London Olympics in athletics and won 4 gold medals in track and field events. X competed in the Olympics in a time when women participating in sports were looked down upon but despite all odds she triumphed as she came out as the most successful athlete in the games. Her remarkable feat led to her being named ‘The Flying Housewife’ by the English media. Her record of 4 gold medals stood unbeaten till 2008, although Alvin Kraenzlein, Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis did set the same record. In 1999, X was declared the ‘Female Athlete of the Century’ by the IAAF. X helped to eliminate the notion that that age and motherhood were not barriers to success of women in sports. Id X.
- 26. The only tennis player to win a golden slam in one calendar year. #kolzStyle
- 28. X majored as an undergrad at UCLA in Hebrew, Jewish studies, and neuroscience and then stayed to earn her Ph.D, her dissertation being an investigation of hypothalamic activity in patients with Prader–Willi syndrome. Best known however in an entirely different role, X has been nominated four times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding SupportingActress in a Comedy Series, and won a Critic's ChoiceTelevision Award for Best SupportingActress in a Comedy Series.
- 30. The origins of the name of this drink are disputed, some associate it with the historical figure, the Queen ___ of England while others associate with the Hollywood star ____Pickford. Some other drink aficionados trace its origins to a waitress named ____ who worked at a bar called the Blood Bucket. FITB and work out the name of the drink (Hint: Remember who had a little lamb)
- 32. X was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist.Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. She wrote novels, essays, biographies, autobiography and monographs on philosophy, politics and social issues. She is known for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism; and for her novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins. She is also known for her lifelong relationship with French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
- 34. 1979: Sahitya AkademiAward (Bengali) 1996: Jnanpith Award – the highest literary award from the Bharatiya Jnanpith 1997: Ramon Magsaysay Award – Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts for "compassionate crusade through art and activism to claim for tribal peoples a just and honorable place in India’s national life. 2003: Officier del' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 2007: SAARC Literary Award 2009: Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2010:Yashwantrao Chavan National Award
- 36. The Queen of Soul, best known for demanding R-E-S-P-E-C-T, is at 74, a powerhouse vocalist, pianist and songwriter. X was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1987; she performed at President Barack Obama's Inauguration; and she holds the record for most Grammys for Best Female R&BVocal Performance, with 11. Perhaps most notably, she's a self-taught piano prodigy who recorded her first album at the age of 14.
- 38. It began with two Indian women hanging out on Mumbai streets in defiance after a series of violent crimes against women. It has since grown and even spread to Pakistan, as women assert their right to public spaces in male-dominated societies. ___ ___ _____? street campaign was inspired by a book of the same name, that examined the risks for women on Mumbai’s streets. It came as an intense spotlight fell on women’s safety in India following the 2012 fatal gang rape of a student on a bus in Delhi and the 2014 rape of a woman by her Uber taxi driver in Delh
- 40. This is where I will begin, but it is not where I will stop. I will continue this fight until I see every child, every child in school. Dear brothers and sisters, great people, who brought change, like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, MotherTeresa and Aung San Suu Kyi, once stood here on this stage. I hope the steps that ______ ________and I have taken so far and will take on this journey will also bring change – lasting change. My great hope is that this will be the last time, this will be the last time we must fight for education. Let's solve this once and for all.
- 42. X was born toTarlochan Singh Anand and Amteshwar Anand in Delhi. She studied at LSR and as a journalist made headlines for her shocking publication in a magazine of sexual intercourse between Suresh Ram ( Son of Deputy PM Jagjivan Ram) and a DU student. She was also a supermodel and worked in an ad for Bombay Deying .She became the youngest minister and negotiated Montreal Protocol on behalf of GOI. Id X