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A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include other criteria, such as personality, intelligence, talent, character, causes, and charitable involvement, through closed-door interviews with judges, or the conventional question-and-answer round(s) in the finals.
Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 18 and 28. [1] Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", [2] the contest is judged on competition segments with scoring percentages: Private Interview (30%) – a 10-minute press conference-style interview with a panel of judges, On Stage Question (10%) – answering a judge's question ...
The Miss Teenage America Pageant was a United States beauty pageant started in 1961 as a pageant for high school girls. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was usually broadcast on the CBS network around November each year. [ 1] The pageant was sponsored by Dr. Pepper. The original pageant ended after 1979, and the name rights were sold to Teen Magazine ...
It was already an established national pageant before Miss Universe, Inc. began its own version of it in 1983. [2] [3] The first Miss Teen USA competition first took place as a mail-in photo contest conducted by Teen magazine in 1959. [2] [4] It later took place as a live stage event. [5]
The crown of Miss Talavera Bruce, an annual beauty pageant named after the women's prison in western Rio. For the prisoners, the contest is a time to enjoy dressing up, temporarily forget life ...
The AMC contest series includes the American Mathematics Contest 8 (AMC 8) (formerly the American Junior High School Mathematics Examination) for students in grades 8 and below, begun in 1985; the American Mathematics Contest 10 (AMC 10), for students in grades 9 and 10, begun in 2000; the American Mathematics Contest 12 (AMC 12) (formerly the American High School Mathematics Examination) for ...
A beauty pageant is a competition traditionally focused on judging and ranking the contestants' physical attributes. Pageants have now moved towards including inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, talent, character, and charitable involvement, through private interviews with judges and answers to public on ...
Ms Adetshina, in blue, was pictured with the other 15 short-listed contestants for this year's Miss South Africa competition [Yolanda van der Stoep]