In 2018 Catriona Gray became Miss Universe and her inspiration made us gather 15 random beauty contest questions. She also competed for the title Miss World three years ago, in 2016, but she didn’t win, however she was in top five, and even announced as Beauty With A Purpose Winner. Two years later that she spent with very hard work, she won the beauty title. If you are planning to enroll a beauty contest, come with us and read Insider Monkey’s latest article about it. Not only do you need to work hard but you should get to know the pageant questions as well.
What do you need to be like if you want to win the contest? At first and naturally: beautiful. But that’s not enough, intelligence, compassion, generousity, nobility are also important. You can never know what kind of issue you will get, but what is sure, you will have to give the right answer. Your pageant questions may be hard to anwer, or they they just will be ordinary and easy ones. Nevertheless, in my opinion these latter ones are more difficult many times, because it’s not easy to give a simple, but yet witty answer, which hasn’t been said before. For example a question about your hobbies can be easy and hard also, since generally dull activities are named such as reading, walking, listening to music. It’s all right of course if you all these free time actvities, but you should find out something else. We will help you with these quesitions and answers now.
Now, without a further ado, let’s see our selection from Insider Monkey’s list of the 15 random beauty contest questions, try to be original and honest in your potential answers. What can we suggest? We can give you simple and yet difficult advice: be witty, brief and true!
15. If you had to send one contestant home, which state would you remove?
It’s tricky a little bit. You need to find some kind of true but diplomatic response, for example you don’t want to send anyone home, but you need to accept the rational reasons.
14. Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?
It’s another typical question, but it is generally asked you at a job interview too, so it can’t be surprising. What are you going to do in the future?
13. If you could meet (have lunch with) any person in history who would it be?
Who would be surprised to get this question? You will be asked about your idol or your favorite role model.
12. What is your dream job?
This is a very typical question at beauty contests, so you will need an excellent answer if you want to win.
11. Tell us about your biggest disappointment and how you bounced back from it.
Everybody has disappointments, and everybody has beed defeated, you needn’t to be ashamed of it – so show the judges how elegantly you can handle it.
10. If your younger brother or sister came to you and asked you to buy them condoms, would you? Why or why not?
Let’s see the question that got the 10th place on our list now. Nowadays sexual education is a general topic, and everybody has to have her own opinion about it, so should you – therefore you need to find out a good answer.
9. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?
Almost all of us want to travel, so if you had the opportunity to visit either country, where would you go first and why?
8. If you could be on the cover of any magazine, which would you choose and why?
This question is actually about your amibitions, so try give an ambicious answer.
7. How did you prepare for this pageant?
Speaking about your dieting is too typical and dull. Try to give an interesting answer that is a little bit more extraordinary than the others’ responses.
6. Is social media bringing people together or causing separation?
It’ a very arresting question and there are lots of articles about this issue, so you can prepare to give a great answer.
5. What is your guilty pleasure?
You can take this question as “What’s your favorite food/dessert?” Of course some witty answers will do.
4. With everything that you have going on how will you handle the responsibilities of the crown if you are selected?
As a competitor you must have prepared this question, and can respond the adequate answer, right? If not, you need to spend some time to find out the best answer.
3. Judge hands over a pen and says, “Sell me this pen.”
This is an original question that was said at a contest. It shows that lots of unexpected things can happen. The beauty could pass this question successfully, anyway. What would you say if you got this task?
2. What don’t I need to know about you?
This is a tricky question. Of course you shouldn’t say any negative about yourself, tell something funny and witty, yet positive, that’s all.
1. What is your favorite movie?
And at last, but not least here is an innocent question on our list of 15 random beauty contest questions. If you were asked to recommend your favorite film, how would you do it?
