BEAUTY PAGEANT QUESTIONS
1)Who are you?
2)Why did you enter this pageant?
3)What do you want to achieve in life?
4)What has been the biggest disappointment in your life to date?
5)What is your best quality?
6)What is your worst quality?
7)Why should we select you as our titleholder?
8)You can only pick one word. Which word best describes you: sexy, smart, beautiful or talented? And why?
9)Do you believe in premarital sex?
10)Do you believe in abortion?
11)Who is the reigning Miss (pageant you are in)?
12)Other than you mother, who do you admire most and why?
13)Do you think the government should try to legislate morality to create a better environment for children to grow up in?
14)Do you feel more comfortable in small gatherings or large parties?
15)What is your town/city known for?
16)If you won this title and your boyfriend was upset, which would you give up - the boyfriend or the title?
17)Everybody worries about something. What do you worry about?
18)Do you prefer to have friends of the same sex or opposite sex? Why?
19)If you don't win this title, which contestant would you like to see win and why?
20)Should a titleholder who is religious share her faith in public on appearances?
21)What makes you angry?
22)What makes you cry?
23)Have you ever had a boyfriend reject you? How did you handle it?
24)Who is Vice-President of Panama?
25)What is your favorite football team. (Be prepared to explain if you pick a team other than
your country’s team.)
26)Tell us about your family...
27)Who is your family's "black sheep" and why?
28)If you were married and caught your husband in adultery, how would you handle it?
29)If you could spend a Saturday reading a novel or playing a sport, which would you pick and why?
30)Describe your community.
31)Why would anyone want to visit your country?
32)How do you relax?
33)What did you do to prepare to enter this pageant?
34)Do you think young women who have cosmetic surgery should be allowed to compete in pageants againstcontestants who haven't had surgery?
35)Is cosmetic surgery an unfair advantage in pageant competition. Why or why not?
36)What do you look for in a friend?
37) How would you resolve the Middle East crisis?
38) In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, should Israel concede more lands to the Palestinians to promote peace, even if it narrows the margin of secure land around the nation?
39)What is the greatest crisis facing our country?
40)If you were elected president, name the most important change you'd make to our nation.
41)Describe your future husband.
42)What do you look for in a man?
43)What is the one quality you wouldn't tolerate in a boyfriend or husband?
44)There's a lot of "man-bashing" today. Why?
45)Name the woman you feel is the finest pageant titleholder role model and why.
46)Do we currently have a woman on the Supreme Court?
47)Would a woman make a better - or worse - president of the United States?
48)Is adultery any reflection on a man's suitability for leadership positions? Why or why not?
49)What is genocide?
50)Which women do you think were the best role model and why?
51)If you could go back and start your life over again, what one thing would you do differently?
52)List three adjectives that best describe yourself.
53)Name one of your strengths and one of your weaknesses.
54)What would constitute a "perfect" evening for you?
55) If you woke up tomorrow and gained any one super power, what would you want it to be?
56)What is your most treasured memory?
57) What is the greatest accomplishment of your life? Is there anything you hope to do that is even better?
58)What’s a “down” day for you?
59) Define "class" without giving me an example.
60) Does society define "success" for women the same way we do for men?
61)What does "success" mean to you? Have you achieved it?
62)As far as success, does luck have a hand in destiny?
63)For what in your life do you feel most grateful?
64) When has your life most dramatically changed as the result of some seemingly random external influence? How much do you feel in control of the course of your life? How did it affect your life?
65)Would you like to be famous? In what way?
66) What do you most strive for in your life: accomplishment, security, love, power, excitement, knowledge, or something else?
67)What motivates you and why?
68) When you get up in the morning and look in the mirror, what do you see?
69) How are you feeling at this moment?
70) Have you set a time limit on being successful?
71) How do you set goals for yourself?
72) What is your philosophy on life?
73) What do you value most in a relationship with a friend?
74) How do you handle peer pressure when it goes against your values?
75) If you go out on a date, how do you feel about splitting the check?
76)What do you think the woman’s social rights and responsibilities are?
77)Do you think women can have a career and also a family?
78) If you could change one thing in the world, what would you change and why?
79)What are you personally doing to save our environment?
80) How do you respond to a homeless person on the street asking you for money?
81) What act of friendship made a difference in your life?
82) How would you introduce yourself in you were a guest speaker?
83) What has been your biggest disappointment in life? Your biggest failure?
84) Can you be counted on to do what you say you will do?
85)What is the biggest problem facing our country today?
86) What is the primary role of a woman in the first decade of the 21st century?
87)Do you believe that "the woman makes the difference"?
88)How has the role of women changed since the turn of the century?
89) If you could not be involved in the field you are in, what direction would you take in life?
90) A century from now, what music do you think will represent our current times? Why?
91) As an educated woman who is also very attractive, how do you deal with the stereo typing based on beauty alone?
92) How do you use your beauty, and how is it used against you?
93) Justify for me, if you can, a college professor making $70,000 a year (or less), and an athlete making $700,000+ a year. What is your opinions of this?
94) What pushes your hot button?
95) What was the happiest moment in your life?
96) If you could go back and relive part of your life, what part would that be and why?
97)If you could go back in time to any time period, which one would you choose & why?
98) Tell me about a bad decision you have made.
99)What is it that you do in your free time?
100) What do you consider a "luxury"?
101)What other cities, states, or countries have you visited? Describe your impressions.
102)What is Panama’s greatest quality?
103)Tell me about your favorite teacher?
104)Who is your favorite musician? Composer? Artist? Performer? Etc.?
105)What has not happened in your life that you wish could happen?
106)What magazine cover do you see yourself on? Your boyfriend on? The Judges on?
107)How important is your wardrobe? How does it affect your budget?
108)Who is your role model, and why?
109)Whom do you admire most? In what way does that person inspire you?
110)Who is the woman you admire most?
111) As times change, what contemporary woman do you think is the best role model for your generation and why?
112) Who is the most influential woman in Panama?
113) What important figure (political, sports, entertainer, etc.) either local, state, or national do you feel is the best role model for young people today, and why?
114) Do you feel you have much impact on the lives of the people you come in contactwith?
115) In what way could you be a role model for the youth of today?
116)Can you think of someone outside of your family who, over a short period of time, significantly influenced your life?
117) In the past 100 years, who, in your opinion, has been the most influential person inthe world?
118) What is your platform? Please explain.
119) How does your platform impact the community? The state? The nation?
120) Are you involved in any community service activities? If so, what? If not, what would you be interested in doing in the future for our community?
121) What specifically have you done, hands-on, within your platform?
122) Can you expand your platform on a state-wide basis? (on a national basis?)
123) Does your platform need special funding (on a local, state, or national basis), if so, where are those funding coming from or where can funds come from?
124) What special charities, causes, or groups do you support and why?
125) How do we encourage people and get them excited about volunteerism?
126)Who is your rolemodel for your volunteer work?
127) If you could trade places with a character on TV, who would it be and why?
128)What is more important: beauty or intelligence?
129) What’s more important: life experience or education?
130) Would you rather be a member of a world championship sports team or be the champion of an individual sport? Which sport would you choose?
131) Which sex do you think has it easier in our culture? Have you ever wished you were of the opposite sex?
132) What is more important: a woman’s right to work to fulfill herself or the right of the child to have a "stay at home" mom?
133)Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life?
134) Would you like for your spouse to be both smarter and more attractive than you?
135) If both you and your husband had good jobs and your husband was offered a promotion in another state, what would you do?
136) Is it more important to be liked or respected, and why?
137) If the person you were engaged to marry had an accident and became a paraplegic,
would you go through with the marriage or back out of it?
138) Who in the world (living or dead) would you most like to meet? Why? What would you
tell them or ask them?
139)If you could invite three people to dinner, who would it be and why?
140)What is the most vivid memory you have of your childhood?
141) How do you handle people not liking you?
142) What are the most important gifts you’ve ever received?
143) In what way do you see yourself as being difficult to live with?
144) Describe beauty.
145) What constitutes a "gentleman" today?
146) Do you think it’s important for a husband to participate in housework?
147) you think today’s women are more aggressive than they used to be?
148) What’s your most embarrassing moment?
149) What was the best advice you received about entering this Pageant?
150) Why would you make a good Miss______?
151) Why do you think you deserve to be Miss______?
152)What qualities do you think a young lady should possess to make a good Miss ______?
153)What is something special that you could contribute by being Miss______?
154)Give me a 30 second commercial on the country that you will berepresenting if you win Miss ______.
155)Give me a 30 second commercial on Panama’s beaches?
156)Give me a 30 second commercial on Colon?
157)Give me a 30 second commercial on Darien?
158)Give me a 30 second commercial on this pageant.
159) If you were going to give me a tour of your hometown, what three places would you show me?
160) How would you promote the State of Florida to a visitor?
161) How has this pageant challenged you?
162) What is the main goal you plan to accomplish as Miss/Mrs. ______?
163)Of all the areas you are competing in, which did you prepare the most for?
164) How did you prepare for this interview? For other categories?
165) What personal sacrifices have you made so far in preparing for this pageant?
166)How would respond to the statement: pageants exploit women?
167)If you had a daughter, would you recommend that she enter a pageant? Why?
168)If you become Miss _____ and were making an appearance, and you encountered someone who is totally opposed to the pageant system, how would you change their attitude?
169) What you have learned most by competing in this pageant?
170) If there was one thing you could change about this pageant, what would it be andwhy?
171) Would you consider competing again in this pageant if you did not win this time?
172) If you were judging a pageant, what would be the most important quality that you’d look for in the winner?
173) What has been the most difficult thing about the pageant so far?
174) Why do you want to win this pageant?
175) What do you have to offer this pageant and the philosophy by which it stands for?
176) Why do you think you are qualified to win this title?
177) How would you define what this pageant is?
178) Do you think you are going to win this pageant?
179) What would it mean to you if you won?
180) Is there any pressure from your family to compete in pageants?
181) How would you spend any award money that you win in this pageant?
182) What would your responsibilities be if you won the title?
183)Why did you enter this pageant?
184) If you don’t win this pageant, how will you react?
185) If you don’t’ win this pageant, where will you put the blame?
186) We tend to put titleholders, particularly national titleholders, on a pedestal. Is it wrong for us to expect her to be a perfect person?
187) State and national titleholders are very public personalities. How will you dealwith the fact that you will sort of lose your privacy and you will become this veryoutstanding young woman in Panama if you win?
188) In preparing for this Miss/Mrs. ______Pageant, how can you justify the amount of money spent on wardrobe in comparison to the scholarships or prizes received or to daily and life commitments and expenses?
189)What is your best trait? How will you use it in this pageant?
190)How did you feel after meeting the other contestants for the first time?
191) Rate yourself in all competitions on a scale of 1 to 10.
192) Is there anything we didn’t ask you that you would like to tell us?
193) Who is the current Miss Panama and what is her platform?
194) Who is the current Miss Universe and what is her platform?
195) Would you add credibility to pageants?
196) Would you improve this pageant?
197) How has your boyfriend helped you prepare for competition?
198)Do you think the family unit is important in today’s society?
199)What is your definition of traditional family values?
200)Can you recall the best advice a family member ever gave you?
201) Should parents of adopted children tell their child they are adopted? If so, why?
202)Should adopted children meet their real parents some time in their life?
203)Where is the line drawn between discipline and child abuse?
Do you think that children coming from divorced families should be put in peer
groups or counseling sessions?
204)
205) What should the male/female relationship be, and what should the male’s
responsibility be both emotionally and psychologically to the marriage?
206) Should fathers be granted paternity leave by their respective employers?
207) What advice would you give on how to pick the perfect mate?
208) What kind of program would you activate for the elderly if you were chose
Miss/Mrs.______?
209) How do you feel about the practice of putting aging family members into nursing
homes?
210) If you were a parent, what on e value would you teach your child?
211) How forgiving are you when your family or friends let you down?
212) What do children owe their parents and what do parents owe their children?
213)Do you think that television and movies display too much violence and, if so, do you
feel that violence can influence a student’s behavior?
214)What is the biggest problem facing teens today?
215) How do you handle peer pressure?
216)How do you feel about the educational system in our country?
217)In Japan, children go to school six days a week and 280 days a year. In America,
children go to school approximately 180 days a year. How can we compete with education in
Japan?
218)What are the advantages or disadvantages of enrolling children in pre-school?
219)What is the greatest need for children today?
220)What would you do to reduce a child’s TV time and improve the quality of TV?
221)If you were returned to your hometown and had $100,000 to distribute, how would you
distribute the money?
222)Do schools need a complete revamping? What innovations would you like to see?
223)Do you think rap music is sending the wrong message to the youth?