Nexus- Women's Quiz

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1.
X is an Indian author, politician and astrologer by profession. In 1977 X wrote the book -
The World Of Homosexuals, which was considered to be one of the first studies of
homosexuality in India.
The book, considered "pioneering" features interviews with two young Indian homosexual
men, a male couple in Canada seeking legal marriage, a temple priest who explains his
views on homosexuality, and a review of the existing literature on homosexuality. It ends
with a call for decriminalisation of homosexuality, and "full and complete acceptance—not
tolerance and sympathy“. The book, however, went mostly unnoticed at that time.
In 1980 X stood against Indira Gandhi in the Lok Sabha elections in the Medak region of
Telangana, however she stood ninth with only 6514 votes.
ID X, who is otherwise famous for a whole different reason.

2. Put Funda –
• Lakshya
• Firaaq
• Peepli Live
• No One Killed Jessica
• Singham Returns

The character of the Journalist in all these movies was based on
Barkha Dutt

3.
Sharbat Gula was born in a small village in East Narangarh reigon of Afghanistan.
She moved to Pakistan after her parents were killed during the Soviet invasion of
Aghanistan and later married Rehmat Gul between the age of 13 – 16 years.
In 2016, she was arrested by the Pakistani authorities for living in their country
using forged documents, it was followed by fifteen days of detention and was then
deported to Afghanistan. This act was highly criticised by the Amnesty
International.
However, when she returned to Kabul she as welcomed by President Ashraf Ghani
himself in the Presidential Palace and was gifted a 3,000-square-foot residence by
the government.
• How is Sharbat Gula better known as, which led to her grand reception in
Kabul?

AFGHAN GIRL
She appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic and became the face of
refugee girls/ women all around the world.

4.
The following image is the front piece to an iconic novel’s first
edition.
• Name the novel and its author.

ELLEN DEGENERES
• Winner of Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Came out on the Oprah Winfrey show.
• Judge of ninth season of American Idol
• Oscars host in 2006 and 2013.

6.
____ ______ literally means Eye Of Day in Malay.
While writing about _____ _____ one journalist said “So feline, extremely feminine,
majestically tragic, the thousand curves and movements of her body trembling in a
thousand rhythms.”
Another wrote “slender and tall with the flexible grace of a wild animal, and with
blue-black hair” and that her face “makes a strange foreign impression.”
• Not only did ____ ____ live a luxurious and flamboyant life, her death was also
extremely elegant and graceful, as one of her executors and eye witness claimed
“By God! This lady knows how to die.”
• FITB

While other girls attend their fav’rite
cocktail bar
Sipping Martinis, munching caviar
There’s a girl who’s really putting
them to shame
______ is her name
All the day long whether rain or shine
She’s a part of the assembly line
She’s making history,
working for victory
____________
Keeps a sharp lookout for sabotage
Sitting up there on the fuselage
That little frail can do more than a
male will do
_____________
7. Given below are the first three stanzas of a song by Redd Evans and John Jacob
Loeb , dedicated to one of the most iconic woman in the world. Name the song.

8.
X at the age of 14 volunteered for the Indian National Congress exhibition in 1923 and
was put in charge of the Khadi Exhibition that was running side by side. Her responsibility
was to ensure that visitors to were not allowed without tickets. She fulfilled the
responsibility given to her honestly and even forbade Jawaharlal Nehru from entering.
When the organisers of the exhibition saw what she did and angrily chided her, she replied
that she was only following instructions. She allowed Nehru in only after the organisers
bought a ticket for him. Nehru praised the girl for the courage with which she did her duty.
X later became a member of the constituent assembly and the planning commission of
India.
A famous structure in Delhi has also been named after X
ID X

9. Which important feat has been highlighted in
this Ad?

Record breaking - 5 women in the fray for 2020
Presidential elections

10.
X is an American term that was first used in the 1990s. X is a portmanteau,
which is a word that is composed by blending the sounds and the meaning of
two different words.
X is a woman who is demanding and difficult to please and has an
unreasonable expectation of happiness. It was first used by Diane White in
an article published by the Boston Globe newspaper in 1995.
Since then the subject of X has spawned numerous articles, books and
television shows.
The word X was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011, only
sixteen years after its first use.
ID X

11.
X became a international icon and the face of resistance after her arrest in December 2017. Post her
release in july 2018 , she was compared to Malala Yousafzai, Che Guevara, and Joan of Arc, in fact
Nelson Mandela’s grandson even invited her to South Africa in order to receive an award for her
bravery
Previously she had even been invited by the Turkish PM to receive the ‘Handala Courage Award’in
2012 when her “act of bravery” had gone viral.
Jesse Roberts of Rise Up International and Jesse Locke of AMZ Productions filmed a documentary,
Radiance Of Resistance, that featured the then 14-year-old X. In 2017 it was screened worldwide at
a number of festivals, including the Respect Human Rights Film Festival in Belfast, Northern
Ireland, where it also won Best Documentary.
However this documentary was banned in Singapore for its ‘skewed narrative’ which could then
cause ‘disharmony in the country’
ID X

AHED TAMIMI – 17 year old imprisoned for
slapping 2 Israeli Soldiers

12.
The following is the list of Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Winners since 2010 –
2010: Bristol Herald Courier, "for the work of Daniel Gilbert in illuminating the murky
mismanagement of natural-gas royalties owed to thousands of land owners in southwest
Virginia, spurring remedial action by state lawmakers."
2011: Los Angeles Times, "for its exposure of corruption in the small California city of
Bell where officials tapped the treasury to pay themselves exorbitant salaries, resulting in
arrests and reforms."
2012: The Philadelphia Inquirer, "for its exploration of pervasive violence in the city's
schools, using powerful print narratives and videos to illuminate crimes committed by
children against children and to stir reforms to improve safety for teachers and students."
2013: Sun-Sentinel (South Florida), "for its well documented investigation of off-duty
police officers who recklessly speed and endanger the lives of citizens, leading to
disciplinary action and other steps to curtail a deadly hazard."

2014: The Washington Post and The Guardian for their coverage of the National
Security Agency's worldwide electronic surveillance program, and the leaking of
documents pertaining to it by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
2015: The Post and Courier "for 'Till Death Do Us Part,' a riveting series that probed
why South Carolina is among the deadliest states in the union for women and put the
issue of what to do about it on the state’s agenda,”
2016: Associated Press, "for an investigation of severe labor abuses tied to the supply
of seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants, reporting that freed 2,000 slaves,
brought perpetrators to justice and inspired reforms."
2017: New York Daily News and ProPublica "for uncovering, primarily through the
work of reporter Sarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust
hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities.
Who won the prize in 2018 and what was their contribution?

The New York Times and The New Yorker "for
their coverage of the sexual abuse of women in Hollywood and other
industries around the world".
New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey win the
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for exposing Harvey Weinstein’s
decades of sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood. (The prizes are
awarded by Dana Canedy, the first woman and first African-American to
administer the prizes.)

13.
This version of Barbie was created as a tribute to which inspiring woman? This
also sparked a major conflict between, this woman’s family and Mattel (The
company who designed the doll)

Frieda Kahlo
The family was unhappy with the appearance of the doll. They felt that it did
not do justice to her skin tone and uni brow and that it should have been more
Mexican, instead of being designed to fit into the American beauty standards.

14.
The next image shows an elevated platform at the centre of a village, which for a very
long time had been the village’s hallmark.
This platform was created after a historic act in 1987 and at that point of time it saw
massive crowds of people visiting this area.
However, today it has become almost insignificant and no one visits this place any more.
Which historic act led to this place garnering massive national attention? Also Name the
village where this site is situated.

Roop Kanwar’s Sati
Deorala Village

15.
In the early days of Christianity and the eventual rise of the Church of England, the simple act of wearing
_______was seen as being both sinful and deceitful and could even be punishable by law.
One could even divorce his wife if she did use _________
In the late 1700s, England even passed a law stating that any woman who used _______shall incur the penalty of the
law now enforced against witchcraft and like misdemeanours and that the marriage upon conviction shall stand null
and void.”
However, society’s attitude towards ______ shifted quite drastically in the World War II era, and it became seen as a
symbol of bravery, patriotism and resilience. Women were at home taking on jobs previously filled by men, as they
were on the battleground.
“It was a time for strength and women, whether they were boiler-suited big girls or whatever, they had to be strong,
and ________ was a part of that.”
“Hitler was said to despise ________ in particular, so it was also seen as a sign of rebellion, an FU to everything he
stood for.”
What has been blanked out?

16.
The Legacy of this woman can be understood by this reaction to her death-
Immediately after her death, the government suspended all official activities for two days and ordered that all
flags be flown at half-staff for ten days. It soon became apparent that these measures fell short of reflecting
popular grief.
In the following 24 hours, over 2,000 people were treated in city hospitals for injuries sustained in the rush to be
near her, as her body was being transported, and thousands more were treated on the spot. For the following two
weeks, lines stretched for many city blocks with mourners waiting hours to see her body lie in state at the
Ministry of Labour.
The streets overflowed with huge piles of flowers. Within a day of her death, all flower shops in the city had run
out of stock. Flowers were flown in from all over the country, and and even neighbouring countries. Despite the
fact that she never held a political office, she was eventually given a state funeral usually reserved for a head of
state, along with a full Roman Catholic Requiem Mass.
A memorial was held for her country’s team during the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki due to her death
during those games.
Who’s mourning has been described in the above paragraph?

17.
Beating out Audrey Hepburn's "My Fair Lady,“ X was the highest grossing film of 1964 with $102.2
million. In contrast, "My Fair Lady" only grossed $72 million.
The lead actress of X, Y was being considered for the lead role of Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady"
after starring in the Broadway play, but she was rejected because the makers thought she was’nt
‘famous’ enough for the role, so the role eventually went to Audrey Hepburn instead.
This lead to Y bagging an Oscar for her performance in X .In her acceptance speech, she thanked Jack
Warner, the president of Warner Brothers, who decided that she was not famous enough for the movie
version of "My Fair Lady.“
In an impressive night at the Academy Awards, X walked away with five Oscars, including Y’s win for
the Best Actress.
36 years later, another iconic movie Z was shot on the same stage as X which led to the stage being
named in honour of Y.
ID X, Y and Z

X - MARY POPPINS
Y – Julie Andrews
Z – The Princess Diaries

18.
X’s father had Russian aristocratic roots, and she was actually born Illiana Lydia Petrovna Mironova.
However, when she was 9 years old, her father changed his last name to the more English sounding
name, which led to her current name.
Many of X’s early roles were highly sexual. She played played Castiza in The Revenger’s Tragedy in
1966, Cressida in Troilus and Cressida in 1968, and Lady Macbeth in a 1974 production of Macbeth.
Playing these kinds of roles earned her the nickname the “Sex Queen of Stratford.”
For one of her most iconic roles, X won no less than 40 Best Actress awards. This is the second
highest total of any awards sweep, with only Cate Blanchett’s performance in Blue Jasmine winning
more, at 41.
X is also a part of an elite group of women who have won the Triple Crown of Acting: an Oscar
(Film), an Emmy (Television), and a Tony (Theater). She is one of only 14 actresses and nine actors to
do so.
ID X

19. These women made it to the national headlines in January 2019
due to a very specific reason. What famous incident lead to this
achievement?

First 2 women to enter the Sabrimala Temple since the ban
was lifted.

20.
In 2019, Prince Charles held a reception in Buckingham Palace for his Charity, The Prince’s
Trust International. Dring the reception the charity announced that the trust had teamed up with
X (present during the reception) on an award honouring the achievements of young women and
the awards is to be named after X herself.
The accolade, officially called the ‘X Award’, will shine a light on the work of enterprising and
inspirational young women, who have sought to make an enduring change in their community.
The initiative invites the public to nominate women, between the ages of 11 and 30, who are
"unsung heroes" in their communities and who more than deserve public recognition, their
efforts can range from "sustainable farming schemes, to community projects in refugee camps,
to rebuild-work in war zones."
X will personally handpick a winner, on an annual basis.
ID X

All these women have awards named after them in their respective fields
1. Elizabeth Blackwell Award – Medicine
2. Agatha Christie Award – Literature
3. Florence Nightingale – Nursing
4. Indira Gandhi - Peace and National Integration.

22.
Once the largest room in America, the Great Hall was originally conceived to display miniature models
required of inventors when the building housed the United States Patent Office. The space also served as
the first national museum, and it was here that the Declaration of Independence was publicly displayed
between 1841 and 1871. The guests at Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural ball passed through this room
to join the receiving line in what is now called the Lincoln Gallery. Following a disastrous fire in 1877,
which severely damaged other portions of the third floor of the building, this area was redone in the
American Victorian Renaissance style to which it has now been restored.
The Great Hall currently hosts an iconic paining which was shifted to this hall after the painting saw huge
crowds in its original setup, and the management was forced to take this decision as they were unable to
accommodate such uncontrollable crowds. Will Smith, editor of Art in America, said this about the
painting: “I’m amazed at how much energy is going into the discussion of painting and portraiture. I can’t
remember a time when there was discussion about a picture in an old-fashioned medium in a positive way.”
Which painting has been talked about?

23.
X had been described by the author as generally ugly (ghora mukhi):
Pot bellied
cross-eyed
Thinning, brown hair
A grating voice that is harsh on the ears.
Oversized breasts; this can be translated to mean a heart full of wickedness.
X was given the name of Mīnakshi "Dīksha" at birth, and some also called her Chandranakha (the one with nails like
the moon).As beautiful as her mother Kaikesi and her grandmother Ketumati had been before her, X grew up and
secretly married the Danava prince of the Kalkeya Danava clan, Vidyutjihva .X’ family was enraged with X for
marrying a Danava. However, she was soon able to convince her family to accept her husband, but she was unaware of
her husband’s evil intention of killing X’s immediate family.Therefore one day in X's absence, Vidyutjihva attacked
X’s brother , who in self-defense killed his brother-in-law. This earned X’s brother his miserable sister's great
displeasure.
There are theories that claim that X was the reason behind one of the iconic wars in history as she wanted to take
revenge from her brother for her husband’s death.
ID X

24.
In a magazine published by the founder and principal of X in year 1952,
Sir Maurice Gwyer wrote the three reasons why the X was called X.
1. His favourite actress was Carmen X
2. His daughter's name was X
3. Shakespeare's X was a "perfect example of what a lady should be".
ID X

25.
ID X and Y, who have been described in this rather ridiculous way in a quora answer -
This answer requires a little Game of thrones and Lord of the Rings background.
They follow the same idle and they idle "Margaery Tyrell" from Game of thrones. As you can guess now,
their motto is, "I will be the queen".
X thinks herself as Daenerys Targaryen and thinks this throne is her by inheritance and Y thinks herself as
Catelyn Stark, who should rule as her husband did something good for the realm. Most ______ don't think
any of them better than Cersei Lannister as both of them want to stay in the power and want to ensure their
sons to become the next ruler. They are perfect Lannisters. They are solely committed to their families and
want to "pay their debt" more and more fiercely.
B) Why didn't people of king's landing remove Joffrey from the throne?
Remember Sauron, the good(!) guy? Powerful people love Sauron. They send rings which cast spells on
establishment people and we all know the rest :-)
To complete the answer: We've got sauron, wise men, elves, dwarves, mankind everything. Now all we, ____
people, need are hobbits. Little people who don't want power or fame but will rescue us from the crisis
because they have love for everything that grow. We're really waiting for hobbits. . .

X – Sheikh Hasina
Y – Khaleda Zia

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