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 means "cornflower" in her native language and is the heroine of a Pashtun folktale; the byline kept the 11-year-old diarist anonymous.

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 Swat town where she lived with her parents, two younger brothers and two chickens, emptied when the army's Second Battle of Swat began, a...

Q 03/05

Whose shawl did Malala Yousafzai wear for her first 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 went with her to the UN on 12 July 2013, a date the UN named Malala Day; she had cited the assassinated prime minister as an in...

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, a children's rights activist from India, is best known for fighting what?

A) Forced marriage

B) Child labour

C) Dowry violence

D) Caste discrimination

Answer · why

B) Child labour

Child labour was Kailash Satyarthi's lifelong target, and the Nobel citation paired it with discrimination against girls' education; the committee sai...