Quiz on renowned women

Great women from different fields

1. The Ladies

2. MAPQUEST
ROUND I- Bharatiya Naari Ek Khoj
ROUND II- Leading Ladies of Asia

3. ROUND -I
BHARATIYA NAARI EK
KHOJ

4. Bhartiya Naari Ek Khoj
Clues will be given to the team to guess the correct answer
Team has to answer the first part of the question in 60 seconds.

Marks distribution are as follows
Without any clue 15 marks
First clue 10 marks
Second clue 5 marks
Map question carries 5 marks and the time allotted is 20 seconds.
Teams will use their Atlas to locate the place on the Map of India
displayed.
Total marks scored will be:-
No clue + location = 20 marks
First clue+ location = 15 marks
Second clue + location = 10 marks

5. She was the First Indian Women President of
UN General assembly.
She was appointed as the Ambassador to the
Soviet Union from 1947-1949.
Locate the Indian State to which she was
Governor from 1962-1964.
Question 1
She was the daughter of a famous freedom
fighter.

8. Question 2
She is a famous cricket star, a left hand
batsman and a right arm medium pace bowler
who played for India from 2005-2009
She is the first woman cricketer to play in
Six world cup tournaments.
She participated in reality show- The Fear
Factor- Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 4
Locate her birth place.

11. Question 3
An Irish lady, who established India’s first
Kindergarten school for girls in 1898.
Locate the Indian state where she
established the first Kindergarten school for
girls.
She was a disciple of Swami Vivekananda, and
showed keen interest in Buddhism.
She financed the scientific researches of
Jagdish Chandra Bose.

13. Sister Nivedita

14. Question 4
She is a singer and an exponent of
Pandavani – a traditional performing art.
She uses Ektara and Kartal to give music to
her recitals of the Mahabharat.
Locate the Indian State to which she
belongs?
She became famous when Habib Tanvir a
famous theater artist noticed her talent.

16. Teejan Bai , Chhattisgarh

17. Question 5
The 1
st
Bollywood star to endorse products
from two international cola giants Coke and
PepsiCo at the same time.
She joined Yashraj films as public relation
consultant.
She earned the Filmfare award for best
Female debut in 2011.
Locate the state where she was born.

20. Question 6
She is the first ever musician to be awarded
Bharat Ratna.
She acted in the black and white movie MEERA
BAI (1947).
She is a renowned carnatic vocalist.
Locate the Indian State to which she
belongs?

22. M S Subbalakshmi

23. ROUND II

24. Leading
Ladies
of
Asia

25. Visual Round
•The teams have to identify the visual clip in 1 min.
•The map question will be asked only when the visual clip
is identified correctly.
•The time allotted to answer the map question is 20 secs.
•The visual question will be passed only once to the
next team .
•The correct answer carries 10 marks and question if
passed, answer carries only 5 marks.
•The map answer carries 10 marks.

26. MUSIC
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
POLITICS
BUSINESS
ACTIVIST
FIRST AND THE
FOREMOST

27. MUSIC

29. Runa Laila

30. POLITICS

31. Sirimavo Bandaranaike

33. FIRST
AND
THE FOREMOST

35. HOMAI VYARAWALLA

36. BUSINES
S

38. ZHANG XIN

39. SCIENCE
AND
TECHNOLOGY

41. YI -SO YEAN

42. ACTIVISTS

44. Sima Samar
Director
The Afghan Independent Human
Rights Commission (AIHRC)
Afghanistan

46. MUSIC
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
POLITICS
BUSINESS
ACTIVIST
FIRST AND THE
FOREMOST

47. MUSIC

49. NOOR JAHAN

50. POLITICS

51. Megawati Soekarnoputri

53. FIRST
AND
THE FOREMOST

55. ARTI SAHA

56. BUSINES
S

58. LAURA CHA

59. SCIENCE
AND
TECHNOLOGY

61. KALPANA CHAWLA

62. ACTIVISTS

64. Sunita Narain
Environmentalist

65. Round III

67. Rapid fire round.
Each team will be given 1 min to
answer a set of 5 questions.
Each question carries 2 marks.
There is no negative marking in this
round

71. “My life amounts to no more
than one drop in a limitless
ocean. Yet what is any
ocean, but a multitude of
drops?” 
Cloud Atlas