Q 01/05

Which pseudonym, taken from a folktale heroine, did Malala Yousafzai use for her BBC Urdu blog from Taliban-held Swat?

A) Zarghuna

B) Bibi Mubarika

C) Gul Makai

D) Malalai

Answer · why

C) Gul Makai

Gul Makai, "cornflower", was the BBC reporter's pick to hide the 11-year-old's identity; she got the diary because no other family in Swat would let a...

Q 02/05

Malala Yousafzai grew up in which Pakistani city, evacuated in May 2009 as the army moved against the Taliban?

A) Mingora

B) Muzaffarabad

C) Abbottabad

D) Quetta

Answer · why

A) Mingora

Mingora, the largest city in the Swat Valley, emptied as the army fought the Taliban for it; her family fled and could not go home for almost three mo...

Q 03/05

Whose shawl did Malala Yousafzai wear for her first public speech since the attack, at the UN on her 16th birthday?

A) Fatima Jinnah

B) Aung San Suu Kyi

C) Indira Gandhi

D) Benazir Bhutto

Answer · why

D) Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto's shawl was on her shoulders at the UN on 12 July 2013, a day the UN called Malala Day; she had long named Pakistan's assassinated prim...

Q 04/05

After the 9 October 2012 attack, Malala Yousafzai was flown to which English city's Queen Elizabeth Hospital?

A) Leeds

B) Birmingham

C) Manchester

D) London

Answer · why

B) Birmingham

Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital specialises in treating military personnel injured in conflict, and the city became her home: she finished schoo...

Q 05/05

Malala Yousafzai's 2014 Nobel co-laureate, Kailash Satyarthi of India, is best known for campaigning against what?

A) Forced marriage

B) Child labour

C) Dowry violence

D) Caste discrimination

Answer · why

B) Child labour

Child labour is the target of Kailash Satyarthi's Save the Childhood Movement, which has freed tens of thousands of children from slavery and forced w...