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WATCH: Top 5 Question-and-Answer Round | Miss Universe 2024

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Just like in the previous stagings of the Miss Universe competition, there were two rounds as well of question and answer portion for this year’s 73rd edition. In the first round, the final 5 contestants were told to pick a card that contained the name of a member of the selection committee who would ask them a question. And for Nigeria’s Chidimma Adetshina, it was Dubai-based Filipino designer Michael Cinco, who asked her, “What’s more important, being liked or being respected, and why?”Miss Nigeria responded, “I feel like it’s being respected. We live in a society where we often don’t feel respected because of who we are, and I feel like when you respect yourself, you respect others around you. And respect is really important.”It was Cuban philanthropist and entrepreneur Camila Guiribitey for Mexico’s Maria Fernanda Beltran, who asked, “When something bad is happening in your life, what gives you power to keep going?” Miss Mexico answered, “[What gives me the power] to keep going in my life is my mom. Through [her] fight of cancer, right now I’m feeling very happy to be here to represent her resonance, her perseverance, and discipline about all her illness. I want to invite you to always feel your dreams, and as a powerful woman says, I want to be the queen of the people’s heart.”Victoria Kjaer Theilvig of Denmark selected Venezuelan-American artist and YouTube personality Lele Pons, who quizzed her, “How would you live your life differently if you knew nobody would judge you?”Miss Denmark articulated, “I would never change how I live my life. We learn from our mistakes. We learn every day. We learn something new and we got to take that and bring it to the future. That’s why I live each day by each day, and I just got to stay positive. So, no, I would change nothing.Suchata Chuangsri of Thailand picked Lebanese-Dominican art collector Gary Nader, who asked, “What qualities should someone have to be a truly successful leader?” She responded, “A quality a leader should have for me is empathy. Because no matter how good you are, no matter what kind of education you [have], in the end, you need empathy to care about your people, to care about their well-being. And not only a leader, I believe that everyone in this world needs to have empathy among each other. That’s how we can unite.”And lastly, it was journalist and Miss Universe South Africa 1978 Margaret Gardiner who Ileana Marquez of Venezuela had chosen. Asked to “describe the ideal woman of today and what qualities do you have in common with her?”, Miss Venezuela, through her translator, answered, “My ideal moment today has been sharing [this moment] with these amazing 127 women from all across the world, leaving behind our differences and sending the world a message of respect, love, and union, because that’s the way the world is built.”

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