CASUAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS 15.

What do you want to get out of this

pageant?
1. What makes you different from the
other girls competing today?
16. Where do you see yourself in the
2. Why do you think that you are the next 5 years?
best candidate for this title?

3. What makes you stand out from the 17. Where do you see yourself in 10
other contestants? years?

4. What makes you unique?

18. What goal do you want to have
achieved when you are?
5. Why should you win this pageant?

6. Why would you make a good MISS

19. Tell me about yourself
_______?

7. Why should we choose you from the

20. Who is your role model?
other contestants?

8. Why should we select you as the next

21. If you could meet (have lunch with)
Miss (Teen, Ms, Mrs) ______ ?
any person in history who would it
be?
9. Why do you deserve to win this title?

10. What do you like most about

22. Who is the person you look up to the
yourself?
most?
11. Why do you want to win this
pageant?
23. What celebrity do you idolize?

12. What will you do if we crown you the

next Miss (Teen, Ms, Mrs) _____? 24. If you could be anyone else besides
yourself, who would you be?

13. Why did you decide to compete in

25. Do celebrities have a responsibility to
this pageant?
be positive role models?

14. Why did you start competing in 26. Would you say that you are a good
pageantry? role model?
27. What will you do if you win this title?
28. What will be the first thing you do
should we crown you Miss _____ ?
29. What will be the first thing you eat
after the pageant?
30. What’s the first thing you will do after
the pageant is over?
31. What is your dream job?
32. What do you want to do for a living?
33. Are you working your dream job?
34. Where do you want to go to
college?
35. What do you want to study in
college?
36. What has been your biggest failure?
37. Tell us about a challenge that you
experienced and how you
overcame it.
38. Tell us about your biggest
disappointment and how you
bounced back from it.
39. What is the most important issue your
generation is facing?
40. What do you think is the biggest
problem facing young people
today?
41. If you could give your younger self
one piece of advice what would
that be?
42. What do you think is the biggest
problem facing teens today?
43. Why do you think that people have
a negative image of pageantry?
44. With the current negative media
attention about pageantry, what
advice would you give someone on
the fence about competing?
45. Do you think that pageantry
objectifies women?
46. Have you experienced criticism for
competing in pageantry? If so, how
did you handle it?
47. What would you say to someone
that says pageantry degrades
women?
48. Have you ever been bullied? If so,
how did you handle it?
49. How do you handle peer pressure?
50. Tell us about a time when you had to
overcome peer pressure to do the
right thing
51. How did you prepare for this
pageant?
52. Variations of this question:
53. What kind of obstacles did you have
to overcome to compete in this
pageant?
54. Did you hire a pageant coach to
help you prepare?
55. Who helped you prepare for this
pageant?
56. What was the hardest sacrifice you
had to make when preparing for this
title?
57. Why did you select your pageant
platform?
58. Why is your platform important to
you?
59. Why do you think your platform is
important?
60. Do you think technology is hurting
personal relationships?
61. Is technology hurting our
communication skills?
62. Is social media bringing people
together or causing separation?
63. Is texting hurting our communication
skills?
64. If you woke up tomorrow and
gained any one ability or quality,
what would you want it to be?
65. If you could have any superhuman
power what would it be?
66. If you could have the powers of any
super hero what would it be?
67. If you could only have one wish,
what would you wish for?
68. If I were a genie in a bottle and
could grant you any one wish what
would that be? (Note: You better
wish to win the crown!)
69. What is your biggest fear?
70. Tell us about your biggest weakness.
71. What is your biggest flaw?
72. What is your guilty pleasure?
73. What is your favorite food?
74. What is your favorite dessert?
75. What is your favorite movie?
88. What is your pet peeve and why?
76. What is your favorite television show
that you have to watch weekly? 89. Do you believe in love?

90. Love or money?

77. What is your favorite book?
91. Mountainview or seaview?
78. Do you have a hidden talent?
92. What is your favorite color?
79. What is one thing that we would not
know about you just by looking at 93. What do you do on your free time?
you?
94. Who would you want to be stuck
with in a deserted island?
80. With everything that you have going
on how will you handle the 95. Why this you choose your course?
responsibilities of the crown if you are
96. What is the greatest advice you can
selected?
give?
81. How will you handle the
97. Day or night?
responsibilities of the crown on top of
your job, family?
98. Black or white?

99. Mom or dad?

82. How do you plan on juggling the
responsibilities of the crown with the
100. Love or career?
demands of your current life?

83. If you could visit any place in the

world where would you go?

84. Describe to us your dream vacation.

85. What has been your favorite place

you have visited?

86. Tell us about your favorite family

vacation.

87. What advice did you not take and

why?
CONTROVERSIAL PAGEANT QUESTIONS
A. What are your thoughts on LGBT and
anti-LGBT legislation?
B. Do you think men and women
have/are given the same
opportunities in life?
C. What are your thought on abortion
and a woman’s right to choose?
D. How do you think the government
should handle immigration and
illegal immigration?
E. What are your thoughts on the
separation of church and state?
F. What are your thoughts on the
legalization of Marijuana?
G. Should the government be
responsible for providing citizens with
access to healthcare?
H. What are your thoughts on the
growing number of corporations that
are based in the Philippines but
outsource work to other countries?
I. If you became president what would
be the first thing you would do in
office?
J. What are your thoughts on poverty in
the Philippines and what would be
your solution for fixing this?
K. What problems do you see in your
current city or state? How would you
solve them?
L. Where do you see areas of
improvement in our country as a
whole?
M. Do you think the government should
do more to help slow down climate
change?
N. If you could teach a new class in
school, what would it be?
O. What is something illegal that you
wanted to make legal?
P. What will you tell the cynic how
beautiful the world is?
Q. Are you ready not to win the crown?
(I never consider failure.)
R. What subject would you teach the
schools if given a chance?
S. What is your opinion on the Filipino
subject removed from the
curriculum? (If you were to take that
out, who else would pioneer our
language for the next generation.)
T. Given the current economic state,
how would you convince the
Filipinos that it is still more fun in the
Philippines?
U. What is you opinion on fast fashion
and how can you make it more
sustainable?
 SAMPLE QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS V. Do you think that the youth of today
faces more pressure of performance
I. If women were to rule the world by
than the previous generation?
2050, how different would the world
Yes. Definitely the youth today faces
be?
much more pressure than the
Women have always been the
previous generation. They have to
leader in various aspects of life. Be it
adapt to several circumstances at
at home or in the conventional
once. This kind of pressure has made
man’s world, a woman has always
the world much more dynamic and
performed tasks and taken up
fast-paced.
challenges equal to her
VI. Which role of a man compliments a
counterparts. By 2050, as the world
woman better – father, son, or a
would acknowledge it, there will be
partner?
peace and sensitivity, as women are
As William Shakespeare once said,
a personification of love and
“the world’s a stage and we are all
compassion.
actors playing our roles.” Thus, a man
in his every role is fulfilling his duties in
II. Which quality of women gives them
life. He becomes a father, son, or a
an edge over men?
partner only with a woman, who
The quality to create and nurture the
makes him complete, and he, in
creation with tolerance, love, and
return, makes her complete.
patience gives women an edge
over men.
VII. Do you prefer a love marriage or an
arranged marriage?
III. What is the essence of being a
I strongly believe in the institution of
woman?
marriage. Marriages are made on
Winning answer by Sushmita Sen,
Earth and not in heaven. So, whether
Miss Universe 1994: “Just being a
love or arranged, a marriage is an
woman is God’s gift. The origin of a
equation solved by measuring
child is a mother, a woman. She
compatibility for life
shows a man what sharing, caring,
and loving is all about. That is the
VIII. Tell me something about yourself.
essence of a woman.”
I am an embodiment of a new
meaning of life. My purpose here, is
IV. How would you change the world if
to find the true calling of life and
you were to play God for a day?
fulfill it. This platform is one of my
Actions speak louder than words. I
steps towards reaching my goal for
would act to uplift thoughts and
this destiny, which I will decide.
sentiments of mankind, and the
change will follow automatically.
IX. Do you consider yourself to be a
giver or taker? Why?
By the virtue of being a woman, I
consider myself to be a giver as well
as taker. As a woman, I am
bestowed with the power to create
 a part of nature by taking a part of
it. This is the beauty of femininity.
X. What would you say is the biggest
problem facing our educational
system today? Why?
The biggest problem faced by our
educational system is that it believes
it’s a system. A system is a set
arrangement of things. However,
education means to impart
knowledge by giving and taking in
order to empower the uneducated.
This has been forgotten in the
process of being a system, which
needs to be re-evaluated and
learned once again.
XI. In terms of being a woman in India,
what is your opinion on the treatment
of women in business and otherwise?
Winning answer by Aishwarya Rai,
Miss World 1994: “Society has been
defined in a certain way from time
immemorial for all of us. We all know
the kind of eases and the trials that
we could all be faced with – in any
strata, in any profession. So, I think
rather than feeling persecuted that
you’re meeting up with a challenge
simply because of the gender you
belong to, I think it’s important to
face the challenge for what it is and
have your convictions together.”
XII. Tell me about a recent goal you
accomplished.
As I stand here in front of you, while
the whole wide world is watching
over me, I am proud to say that this is
my recently achieved goal, with
many more in store.
XIII. What is your definition of success?
My definition of success is when my
conscience agrees with the time,
effort, money, and emotions spent
on achieving the goal till the end of
it and allows to me sleep peacefully
at night.
XIV. If you could be on the cover of any
magazine, which would you choose
and why?
I would choose Vogue, as it has
been for me, a celebration of
womanhood, a trendsetter, a style
guru, an example of top-notch
reporting and personification of high
standards of living, and above all,
perfection.
XV. Who is your role model?
My role model is me, because for
me, every day is an endeavor to do
better than yesterday.
XVI. What do you expect to gain by
participating in pageants? Why?
By being a part of these beauty
pageants, I expect to gain an
opportunity to discover my strengths
and perfect them, realize my
weaknesses and transform them into
strengths, and take home the crown
tonight.
XVII. What has been the biggest
disappointment in your life to date?
My biggest disappointment would
be the day I name one. I chose to
wear my scars as my medals,
appreciate the learning, be grateful,
and get on with life.
XVIII. Why should we select you as our
titleholder?
 You should select me to be the
titleholder because, I promise to fulfill
my responsibility to perfection. While
doing so, I will strive to be a mirror to
all the aspirants and those around
me.
XIX. Why should you win the Miss World
Title?
Winning answer by Yu Wenxia, Miss
World 2012: “When I was young, I felt
very lucky because so many people
helped me, and I hope in the future I
can help more children to feel
lucky.”
XX. If you had one message to the
world, what would it be?
Live your dreams!
XXI. What made you decide to enter this
pageant?
I always knew this was my calling.
XXII. How important is it to look your good
at all times?
It is very important for me to be well
turned out at all times. I sincerely
believe that beauty lies in the eyes
of the beholder. And I am the
beholder of my beauty in my eyes.
So, if I am not turned out well on the
outside, no one will make an effort to
see what lies within me
XXIII. If you could go anywhere in the
world, where would you go and
why?
Home. Because that is the place
where I’ve been the happiest.
XXIV. What is your greatest obstacle?
Why? How will you overcome that?
My greatest obstacle would be my
own myopic view. I would overcome
it with a change of perspective.
XXV. What is the importance of beauty
pageants in today’s world?
Beauty pageants have given
women a platform to acknowledge
their beauty, knowledge, and skills in
front of the world. It is an opportunity
to seek the better in you. Beauty
contests have also given nations to
pride themselves with a new
accolade.
If God granted you one wish, what
would you wish for?
XXVI. If God granted me one wish, I would
wish for the ability to be happy. I
would wish for the strength to find my
happiness in every situation that I
may have to face in my life.
XXVII. What is the greatest invention of all
time?
Every day, we are surrounded by
one of the greatest innovations of all
time, ELECTRICITY. Before it all
began, people were living even
without it. Imagine how dark the
world was especially at night. With
these being invented, it has
contributed so much to the
humanity. From the radiating lights in
our houses to the convenient way
cooking using electric stoves. It has
also helped many industries in the
development and growth of their
businesses, especially the
technology industry. Little did we
know, that ELECTRICITY is the soul of
the universe and it brought the world
to light
 1.) WOMEN, MEN, GENDER 20. Do you think transgender women
are allowed to join beauty pageants
1. How different would the world be if for the naturally born women?
women were to rule the world? 21. How can you help the LGBT in
2. What does it mean to be a modern fighting for equality?
woman? 22. What project can you offer in order
3. Is life easier for women or men? to exemplify men, and women and
4. Does a woman sacrifice more than a the LGBT?
man? 23. If the winner tonight will be pregnant
5. Is gender equality a concern for during her reign, will she still be the
men? Miss _____?
6. Why is gender equality important? 24. Do you think women are better as
7. What is the difference between home makers or as corporate
gender equity, gender equality and leaders?
women’s empowerment? 25. Do you agree that before marriage
8. What is that a woman can learn women should fully disclose to their
from men? husband all surgical jobs that they
9. If women were to rule the world by have undergone?
2050, how different would the world 26. Do you think a lady president can do
be? their job better than a male
10. Which quality of women gives them president?
an edge over men? 27. Who is more beautiful or good
11. What is the essence of being a looking, a man or a woman?
woman? 28.
12. What is your role in society?
13. Why will you empower women?
14. What makes a woman empowered?
15. Have you drawn professional
inspiration from other women? Tell us
about someone who has inspired
you.
16. What is one thing you know now
about women and work you wish
you had known earlier in your
career?
17. What would you tell young women
who are just starting to work? What
would you like them to know?
18. What are the qualities of an
empowered woman? And how can
women be empowered while
maintaining their femininity?
19. Is chivalry dead?
 2.) BEAUTY, BODY POSITIVITY, 17. Have you ever been bullied? If so,
CONFIDENCE, PAGEANTS, DREAMS how did you overcome it?
18. What would you say to someone
1. Body positivity has taken huge strides that says pageantry degrades
in today’s society, and people have
women?
started recognizing beauty in all
19. Intelligence or looks?
forms, shapes, sizes, and even color.
20. What is the biggest challenge in
Do you think beauty pageants have
adapted and kept up with the joining beauty pageant?
diverse beauty standards that we 21. When are you most likely feel
have in the world right now? beautiful, in the salon or when you’re
2. What is your opinion on “My body in love?
my choice”? 22. How should a beauty queen
3. What does being beautiful do in this respond to ruthless criticism?
pandemic and war? 23. Do you wear the crown? Or does the
4. Do you think that winning is a crown wear you?
product of mindset, fate or hard 24. How will you describe the world to a
work? blind man?
5. What do you think is the biggest
misconception about pageants?
6. In what ways do beauty pageants
help women?
7. Why did you join this pageant?
8. How will you explain to a 5-year-old
the new concept of beautiful?
9. What is your message to your 10-
year-old self?
10. Do you consider yourself beautiful?
11. If you will win tonight, what is the first
thing you will do?
12. What is a role of a beauty queen?
13. What will you tell the cynic how
beautiful the world is?
14. Do you believe that beauty queens
are born and not made? Why or why
not?
15. Do you agree that physical beauty
should be the main consideration in
choosing frontliners in tourism
industry?
16. Do you think being beautiful can
also be a disadvantage? Why or
why not?
3.) ENVIRONMENT, MOTHER EARTH,
GARBAGE, FAST FASHION, PLASTICS,
1. Considering the current state of the
Earth, do you think that we will be
facing a big environmental problem
in the next 20 years?
2. Who is the greatest enemy of the
earth?
3. What is your opinion on fast fashion
and how can you make it more
sustainable?
4. How would you promote tourism in
our country?
5. What do you think is the main obstacle
that our country faces when it comes to
tourism, and how do you think can you
help solve the problem?
6. What environmental issues do you
care the most about?
7. What environmental issues are
evident in your local area?
8. How can people improve the
environment that we live in?
9. What can you do personally to
reduce your carbon footprint?
10. Which countries have the worst
pollution?
11. Describe the effects that pollution
can have upon people’s health?
12. Do you think that global warming is a
hoax?
13. Can you describe how global
warming is affecting our planet?
14. If global warming continues, what
will happen in the future?
15. What might humans be able to do in
the future to deal with environmental
catastrophes?
16. Are you concerned about climate
change?
17. What things do you do to protect
the world that we live in?
18. Has pollution always been an issue?
19. What are some forms of renewable
energy? Do you use any?
20. What are the most important
environmental issues in the world
today?
21. Should governments be solely
responsible for protecting the
environment?
22. What environmental issues might
exist on other planets in the
universe?
23. What events in history have done
most harm to the environment?
24. Are there any environmental issues in
your country?
25. Do you think recycling is important?
26. Are older people as concerned
about the environment as younger
people?
27. Which celebrities are involved with
environmental issues?
28. What changes in the weather might
we see in the future?
29. What strategies are helping to
improve the environment that we
live in?
30. How does meat consumption
contribute to global warming?
 4.)POVERTY, HEALTH, HUNGER, 5.)RELIGION, FAITH BELIEFS, CULTURE,
UNEMPLOYMENT TRADITION HERITAGE, PEACE, WAR, PRAYER

1. What steps or measures need to be 1. Is religion a way to peace?

taken in order to eradicate Poverty? 2. What does being beautiful do in this
2. How can you help people in poverty pandemic and war?
situations? 3. When do you believe that your faith
3. What are your thoughts on poverty in in God is at its strongest?
the Philippines and what would be
your solution for fixing this?
4. Do you think the government should
do more to help slow down climate
change?
5. Should the government be
responsible for providing citizens with
access to healthcare?
6. Isn’t poverty a choice?
7. Why does poverty still exist?
8. Do you believe that the rich are
growing richer and the poor are
growing poorer?
9. What do you think is the leading
cause of poverty?
10. How does unemployment affect the
economy?
11. How will you encourage the youth to
have a healthy living?
6.) Mental health, Depression,
Pressure
1. Why is mental health as important as
physical health?
2. How do you handle stress?
3. How do you handle
disappointment?
4. What is your advocacy and why?
5. If you can sense that your friend is
depressed, what will you tell them to
open up?
7.)Pandemic, Future, Hope
1. What is your biggest realization after
experiencing the Pandemic? How
will this help you with your life moving
forward?
2. How will you help _______ rise again,
after this pandemic?
3. What is your dream for ______ that
you hoped to be achieved in the
next 10 years?
4. What does being beautiful do in this
pandemic and war?
5. What is the first thing that you will do
after this pandemic?
6. How did you adapt to the new
normal of life?
7. In this time of uncertainty, how can
you inspire others to remain hopeful?
8. What is the relevance of beauty
pageant in this pandemic?
8.)Country, Nation, Unity, Law, History
1. What do you think is the greatest rule
of law ever known?
2. If ignorance is bliss, why do you seek
knowledge?
3. What time in history will you go
back?
4. What is the difference between a
historian and a Marites?
5. Given the current economic state,
how will you convince the Filipino
that it’s still more fun in the
Philippines?
6. If you could change one law in the
Philippines, what would it be?
7. Philippines has been through a
number of challenges recently,
calamities, terrorism, etc. Do you
believe that these challenges
strengthen the unity of the people?
8. Who do you think is the best person
that best portrays the strength of a
Filipino?
9.) Life, Wish, Self, Experiences,
Success, Failure, Love
1. If you could only have one wish,
what would it be? And why?
2. If you wake up tomorrow and gain
any one quality or ability, what
would it be?
3. If you have to live your life all over
again, what part of your life will you
change?
4. What is the best teacher, success or
failure?
5. What is the most powerful tool for
success?
6. What is the biggest mistake that
you’ve ever done?
7. When you look at the mirror what do
you see?
8. How would you write the final
chapter of your life?
9. Which significant moment in your life
influence you the most?
10. Who is the best person to marry? Best
friend or the person you love?
11. Who are you most likely to fall in love
with, handsome rich old man? Or
handsome poor young man?
 10.)Youth, Generation, Drugs
1. What is the most important issue your
generation facing?
2. If you see your brother using illegal
drugs, what would you do to prevent
him from addiction?
3. What is the biggest problem the girls
your age is facing today?
11.)Social Media, Technology,
Contribution
1. What do you think is man’s
greatest contribution to the
world?
2. What are the advantages and
disadvantages of social media?
3. What is the biggest influence of
social media to the youth?
4. Can you survive without access to
the internet in one whole year?
5. If you were to scientifically and
technologically invent something,
what would it be and why?
6. What can you do to fight fake
news?
7. What is the best invention in
history?
 ENDING and BASE STATEMENTS God, Faith, Hopeful

Beauty • With God, nothing is impossible.

• Beauty captures the eyes; good
character captures the heart.
La belleza puede captar los ojos, el
buen carácter captura el corazón.
• Beauty pageants should be holistic,
beauty on the inside and outside.
• True representation should
completely shy away from the
conventional standards of beauty
that we are trying to achieve.
• •
General
• Today is better than yesterday and
the best is yet to come.
hodie quam here, et optima, Est
tamen Melius venire
• We are today's people; we are full of
dreams and ambition and so we
need to have a solid foundation.
• We must be optimistic enough to
believe that today is better than
yesterday and the best is yet to
come.
• We should do everything for the
betterment of ________ because this
is our CITY, our HOME.
• I alone cannot change the world but
i can cast a stone across the waters
to create many ripples
• Individually, we are a drop but
together we are an ocean.
•
para-Dios nada es impossible
• When the time is right, God will make
it happen.
Dreams
• We all are forces to be reckoned
with and nothing can get in the way
of our hopes and our dreams.
• When the time is right, God will make
it happen.
My true mission is to show to the
world that magic happens when we
refuse to give up because the
universe always listens to a stubborn
heart.
• We are today's people; we are full of
dreams and ambition and so we
need to have a solid foundation.
• The accumulation of the different
experiences that i have been
through both good and bad has
molded me into becoming the
distinct individual that i am today.
• Remember to always believe in
everything that you are because
there is something inside you that is
so much greater than any obstacle.
Youth
• We are today's people; we are full of
dreams and ambition and so we
need to have a solid foundation.

Law/ Rules

• Ignorance to the law excuses no one

Women impact to social development would
create an educated, extra-cautious
• As what Dayana Mendoza said, Men
and well-informed society.
thought that the best way to go to a
point is to go straight, but women Discrimination, Bullying
know, that the best way to go to a
• As society we need to release
point is to follow every curve and fix
ourselves from the authority that we
every curls.
tend to exercise other people's lives.
• Women can do what she set her
• Your value does not decrease base
mind and heart into.
on someone's inability to see your
Help others, Love worth.
• Remember to always believe in
• It's not about how much you do, it's
everything that you are because
how much love you put into what
there is something inside you that is
you do that counts.
so much greater than any obstacle.
• Its only in giving that we will survive
• Culture, Places

Leaders • Phil has been a melting pot of

economic, cultural, social and
• Leadership is to transform vision into
spiritual diversities that lead us to a
reality.
rich history and it became our
• As one country we can prevail.
emblem of pride to the rest of the
world.
• We have just to acknowledge our
Environment
strengths as a community and
• If you really think that the promote it so that the world can see
environment is less important than its beauty and the hospitability of the
the economy then try holding your people.
breath while counting your money.
Government
• If we nurture our nature, we'll
definitely have a better future. • We are the building blocks of the
government’s economic
Education
development.
• Education is the passport to the
future and tomorrow belongs for
those who prepare for it.
• Awareness and education are two
key solutions to mitigate the spread
of this problem in our society.
Engaging into volunteerism and
social works that primarily deals with
information dissemination on its