Half of the Sky

!International Women’s Day Quiz

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1. She has been named as the most powerful woman in Indian business for the second consecutive time by Fortune. Just name her.

ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar.

2.It was observed on 28 February 1909 in the

United States following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America. In 1913 Russians observed their first X on the last Sunday in February (by Julian calendar then used in Russia). What am I talking about ?

International women’s Day

3. Who is he and what is her distinction ?

Alisha Abdullah

4.Women are always referred as ‘the half of the

sky’. Question is who for the first time referred women as ‘The half of the sky’?

Courtesy : Dipankar Koushik, Amar Asom, Guwahati.

Mao Zedong

5.She was the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet

post. In 1937 she was elected to the provincial legislature of the United Provinces and was designated minister of local self-government and public health. In 1946 she was elected to the Constituent Assembly  from the United Provinces.

Following India's independence from the British in 1947 she entered the diplomatic service and became India's ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1947 to 1949, the United States and Mexico from 1949 to 1951, Ireland from 1955 to 1961 and Spain from 1958 to 1961. Between 1946 and 1968, she headed the Indian delegation to the United Nations. In 1953, she became the first woman President of the United Nations General Assembly. Who is she?

Vijaylaxmi Pandit

6. Name the woman in the middle.

Beatrice

7. How can you connect this bus to a lady?

The No. 2857 bus on which Parks was riding before her arrest (a GM "old-look" transit bus, serial number 1132), is now a museum exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum.

8. Identify the little kid sitting on the floor?

Aung San Suu Kyi

9. First album of which poet?

Maya Angelou

10.She was an Irish-American teacher best known as the instructor and companion of Helen Keller. Name her.

Anne Sullivan