Quiz on Girl Child

[Prof. Dr. Vibhuti Patel]

Facts and Figures

 

This round tests your knowledge of Gender indices in India

Features of this round

• Buzzer round
• Qs will appear on the AV screen
• 10 Qs
• Each correct answer wins 10 points
• Minus 5 points for wrong answer
• Total points possible- 100
• Wrong answer/ No answer will pass on to audience
• Audience wins prize for correct answer

 

 

1. Which state has the highest female sex ratio                          Kerala-1058

 

2. Which state has the lowest female sex ratio                           Haryana-861

 

3. Which district has the highest sex ratio                                  Mahe(Pondicherry)-1147

 

4. Which district has the lowest sex ratio                                   Daman and Diu-591

 

5. What is the % of seats for the women in the parliament        16%

 

6. Which state has the highest no of female headed houses       Tamil Nadu

 

7. Which state has the highest female literacy rate                     Kerala-87.7

 

8. Which state has the lowest female literacy rate                      Bihar-33.1

 

9. What is the child sex ratio of Mumbai                                     898

 

10. What is the male and female life expectancy at birth             Female-63.9 Male 62.3

(The percentage closest to the correct answer)   

 

Round - IV

 

Shooting Stars

 

About achievers in the sporting arena

                

Features of the round are:

• 20 questions- 5 to each team
• Questions in order of seating
• 10 points for each correct answer
• Unanswered Q passes to next team
• 5 points for answering passed Q
• No negative marking for wrong or no answer
• Q passes to audience, if none of the teams fail to answer
• Audience wins a prize for correct answer
• Qs will appear on the AV screen

 

1)      Which woman athlete got distinction of becoming India’s fastest woman athlete for three years in a row?

Roshan Mistri

 

2)      How many medals did P.T. Usha win at Asian Championship?

19

 

3)      Who was the first woman athlete to win gold double in sprints at National Athletic championship?

Roshan Mistri 1949

 

4)      Who was the first Indian woman to win Olympic medal in weight lifting and later stripped of her medal for drug abuse?

Karanam Malleshwari

 

5)      Who was the first girl to win British Junior Squash Open under 19 title?

Joshna Chinnappa   

 

6)      Who was the first Indian woman to win world junior badminton championship?

Saina Nehwal

 

7)      Who became the first woman to finish swimming within 1 min in the 100 meters event?

Dawn Lorriene Frazer

 

8)      The first woman athlete to break the 2 hour 30 min barrier in the marathon?

Grets Waitz

 

 

9)      Who was the first Indian woman to reach final of Olympic event by winning her 400-meter hurdle semi-final?

PT usha

 

10)  In 1988, she won the Olympic gold as well as the four grand slam single titles in Tennis. She is the only player to have won the Golden Grand Slam title. Name her.

Steffi Graf

 

11)  Who is India’s first Women’s World Billiards Championship winner

Anuja Thakur

 

12)  Name India’s first woman Grandmaster in Chess

Koneroo Hampi

 

13)  Which India Woman shooter won 4 golds in the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester

Anjali Bhagwat

 

14)  Who is the current women’s world Carrom champion

Ilavazhagi

 

15)  Who is the first Indian woman cricketer to score a century in International cricket

Shantha Rangaswamy

 

16)  The name Kunjarani Devi is associated with…

Weightlifting

 

17)  Who is Tennis player who became the first Indian woman to reach the fourth round of Grand Slam tournament in the 2005 US open

Sania Mirza

 

18)  Which Tennis player reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times and won the women’s singles titles 9 times

Martina Navratilova

 

19)  Who led the first Women’s expedition to the South Pole in 1993

Anne Bancroft

 

      20) When was the first time Indian Women athlete took part in Olympic Games?

         (1952)

[Prof. Dr. Vibhuti Patel]

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