Lockdown quiz (General Quiz) - Questions with answers

LOCKDOWN QUIZ
One question each day from March 25, 2020 to April 14, 2020
Quizmaster
Ayush Chaudhary
21 Questions

01
X was a Chinese ophthalmologist (eye specialist) and whistleblower. X warned his
colleagues in December 2019 about a possible outbreak of an illness that
resembled SARS, later acknowledged as COVID-19.
On 3 January 2020, Wuhan police summoned and admonished him for "making
false comments on the Internet". X returned to work, later contracted the virus
from a glaucoma (eye disease) patient and died from the disease on 7 February
2020, at age 33. Although most young patients do not tend to develop severe
conditions, the glaucoma patient whom X saw on 8 January was a storekeeper at Y
in Wuhan with a high viral load, which could have exacerbated X's infection.
The death of X provoked considerable grief and anger on the social media which
became extended to a demand for freedom of speech in China. (Image Follows)
Id X (person) and Y (place)

X – Dr. Li Wenliang
Y – Huanan Seafood Market

Life Extension/Eternity.
Top right image – Dmitry Itskov from 2045 initiative.
Centre image – Gilgamesh, a mythological figure who
went on to find the secret of immortality.
Calico is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

03
The impeachment trial of X began in 1788, with Y leading the prosecution by the House
of Commons before the House of Lords. The charge was regarding X's bad conduct and
corruption in India.
During the trial, Y rejected X’s argument that ‘Western’ standards of legality could not be
applied in the East. Y insisted that under the Law of Nature, people in India were entitled
to the same protection as those in Britain.
The House of Commons eventually impeached him, however, the House of Lords
acquitted X and the impeachment failed. Y warned that such a verdict would live in
“perpetual infamy”, and the trial gave rise to a wider debate on the role of the East India
Company in India.
Other than this, Y had took a leading role in the debate over the constitutional limits to
the executive authority of the King, and directly opposed King George III's policy of
severe sovereignty in relation to the American colonists.
Id X and Y

X – Warren Hastings
Y – Edmund Burke

04
X was an Indian jurist and was one of three Asian judges appointed for the "Tokyo
Trials" of Japanese war crimes committed during the Second World War. Among all
the judges of the tribunal, he was the only one who submitted a judgment which
insisted all defendants were not guilty.
X's dissent is frequently mentioned by Indian diplomats and political leaders in the
context of Indo-Japanese friendship.
In 2007, Shinzo Abe greeted X's son, who presented him photographs of Abe's
grandfather, former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and X.
In the 2016 miniseries Tokyo Trial, produced by NHK (Japanese National
Broadcasting organization), X was portrayed by Indian actor Y.
ID X and Y

X – Radhabinod Pal
Y – Irrfan Khan

05
The dihydrogen monoxide parody involves calling _____ by the
unfamiliar chemical name "dihydrogen monoxide" (DHMO), or
"hydroxylic acid" in some cases, and listing some of _____'s well-known
effects in a particularly alarming manner, such as accelerating corrosion
and causing suffocation. The parody often calls for dihydrogen
monoxide to be banned, regulated, or labeled as dangerous. It
demonstrates how a lack of scientific literacy and an exaggerated
analysis can lead to misplaced fears.
Fill in the blank

06
After fierce criticism on social media in China, Versace said it had made a mistake. In
a post on Weibo, the Italian fashion label said it had stopped selling and had
destroyed the controversial T-shirts as of 24 July. It said it "respects the sovereignty
of China's territorial state".
The incident also led to Versace's China brand ambassador Yang Mi, a popular
actress in the country, cutting ties with the brand in a response to the controversy
that got erupted in social media.
The controversial T-shirts in a way disrespected the constitutional principle which
was intergral to Deng Xiaoping's (former Paramount Leader of China) ideology.
What was the controversy and what was the constitutional principle?

They depicted Hong Kong
and Macau as separate
nations.
Principle – One Country,
Two Systems.

07
The naming of ‘turkey’ (bird) in different parts of the world has a deep history
attached to it. In Portuguese a turkey is a peru; the name is thought to derive from
the eponymous country Peru.
Khmer and Scottish Gaelic, on the other hand, call it a French chicken, Malay calls it
a Dutch chicken.
Interestingly, Turkey (country) doesn't use the term ‘turkey' to refer that bird,
instead, it refers to it as ____, which is similar to Russian and French word origins
for the same.
The Dutch refer it as kalkoen which is based on the name of a city (a major
commercial centre) with a 1498 Portuguese connection.
Fill in the blank and identify the city

Blank - Hindi
City – Calicut (Portuguese connection – Vasco da
Gama’s arrival)

08
X is a Jabalpur born film, stage and television actor, music composer,
singer and set designer. Known for his iconic voice, he has lent it to
many advertisements including the famous MP Tourism ad. His 8
movies were nominated for the Oscars.
In Indian Television, he is known for his two famous witty roles. The
most famous one is Y, a show based on a comic book whose lead
character was inspired from Chanakya. However, he also featured as the
lead in Z, a TV programme based on a 13th-century Seljuk wise man of
the same name, whose wisdom can be found in folk tales from Turkey
to China.
ID X, Y and Z.

X – Raghubir Yadav
Y – Chacha Chaudhary
Z – Mulla Naseeruddin

09
X is an African-led movement with an epic ambition to grow an
8,000km natural 'wonder of the world' across the entire width of Africa.
The initiative claims that it will be the largest living structure on the
planet, 3 times the size of the Great Barrier Reef after it gets
completed.
In 2019, taking inspiration from X, a similar initiative was proposed in
Western India called Y against Desertification and Land degradation. Y is
likely to run from Porbandar to Panipat and check the eastward
expansion of the Thar desert.
X and Y? (Be Specific)

X – Great Green Wall of Sahara and Sahel
Y – Great Green Wall of Aravalli

10
The _________ effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an
attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended
consequence of further publicizing that information, often via the
Internet. The _________ effect is an example of psychological
reactance, wherein once people are aware that some information is
being kept from them, they are significantly more motivated to access
and spread that information.
It is named after American entertainer whose attempt to suppress
photographs of her residence in Malibu, California inadvertently drew
further attention to it in 2003.
Fill in the blank.

11
In recent years, US Pentagon has deviced a equipment called X which could
be crucial in identifying suspects in the future. The technology can detect
________ using laser vibrometry to detect the surface movements caused
and can be detected from even 200m away. Experts have dubbed it as a tool
for ethical surveillance as it doesn't involves facial features (which could
involve racial bias) or fingerprint/DNA swabs (samples cannot be tampered in
the labs). However the concerns still remains.
The X was named after Hanna-Barbera's Space Age counterpart to The
Flintstones and involved a family named X residing in Orbit city.
Fill in the blank and Id X.

X – Jetson
Blank - Heartbeat

12
_____ model of economic development refers to the theory that even the
smallest components of a complex production process must be performed
properly if the end product of the process is to have any useful value.
The theory derives its name from a 1986 incident in which the Challenger
space shuttle was completely destroyed as a result of the failure of a simple
gasket, or _____ , to work properly. It was first proposed by American
development economist X in 1993.
X was the co-Founder of 'Precision Agriculture Development' or PAD, which
advised the Coffee Board to pilot a missed-call enabled service to help coffee
farmers in Karnataka.
Fill in the blank and Id X.

X – Michael Kremer
Blank – O-ring

13
X's razor is an epistemological razor which says that - 'What can be asserted
without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.' It says that the
burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who
makes the claim; if there is no proof, then the opponent of the claim can
simply refute it. The dictum appears in a book titled God Is Not Great: How
Religion Poisons Everything written by X.
X's razor takes a stronger stance than what is known as Y standard -
'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidences.' Y standard was made
famous by astronomer Y himself through the popular 1980 show Cosmos.
X and Y?

X – Hitchens (Christopher Hitchens)
Y – Sagan (Carl Sagan)

14
In October 2015, X published a book titled 'Y: Why Vladimir Putin and the
Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped'. In the book, X likens Putin to
Hitler, and explains the need for the west to oppose Putin sooner, rather than
appeasing him and postponing the eventual confrontation. The title of the
book was inspired from a popular HBO series.
X, is known to be one of the all time greatest in his field. His 1997 defeat was
a shocking event in the history of mankind and was often the subject of many
predictions/conspiracy theories/documentaries.
Id X and Y.

X – Garry Kasporov
Y – Winter is Coming
(Event – Garry
Kasporov’s defeat vs
IBM’s Deep Blue
computer)

15
Maintained by a dedicated association and unknown future people
Constructed - 1993-3183 (scheduled)
Material - Concrete
Height - 9.2 metres (when completed)
Base - 15 metres (underlying concrete pad)
Volume -311 cubic metres
Slope - 43°
Coordinates - 48°53′03″N 10°43′17″E
Architect - Manfred Laber and unknown future collaborators
What is being described over here?

16
_______ Inc. is a real-time strategy simulation video game, developed
and published by UK-based independent games studio Ndemic
Creations. The player creates and evolves a pathogen in an effort to
annihilate the human population with a deadly _______. The game
uses an epidemic model with a complex and realistic set of variables to
simulate the spread and severity of the _______. The game became the
number one selling app in Wuhan, China but was forced to be removed
from the App Store by Chinese govt. citing illegal content.
Fill in the blank.

17
During this time, printing technology was rare in India and X was one of the few
who owned it. The X Pictures Depot was set up in Mumbai and it used oleography
to make reproductions. The X press was the largest and most innovative press in
India at that time and was managed by X's brother but under their management, it
was a commercial failure. By 1899 the press was deeply in debt and in 1901, and
was sold to his printing technician from Germany, Fritz Schleicher.
After selling the property, X decided to offer Y, his favourite employee, a
considerable share of the sales proceedings.
X's work had a great impact on Y's work and can be witnessed right from 1913 when
the latter made history.
Identify X and Y

X – Raja Ravi Verma
Y – Dadasaheb Phalke (1913 reference – Raja
Harishchandra)

18
A statue of X of 2nd CE was discovered at the end of the 19th century by Alexander
Cunningham in Mathura. It depicts a defaced male strangling a lion. It has been
interpreted as a sculpture created by a foreign artist that shows X strangling the
Nemaean lion.
Earlier also, Indian version of X was described by Megasthenes in his book Indica.
Considering the depiction by Megasthenes, many scholars have suggested that the
description is similar to Krishna-Vāsudeva and have drawn multiple parallelisms
related to it.
Apart from this, X is also depicted as Vajrapani, the protector of Buddha in
numerous sculptures.
Identify X

19
__________ is an improvisational sport/game introduced in a 1990 storyline of a
comic strip that involved X's negative experience of joining the school baseball
team. It is a self-modifying game, a contest of wits, skill and creativity rather than
stamina or athletic skill. The game is portrayed as a rebellion against conventional
team sports and became a staple of the final 5 years of the comic. The only
consistent rules of the game are that the game may never be played with the same
rules twice and that each participant must wear a mask.
When asked how to play, the author states: "It's pretty simple: you make up the
rules as you go."
The name of the comic where this game appears is based on the name of a
theologian and a philosopher.
Which fictional game am I talking about? Which comic strip?

Calvinball
Calvin and Hobbes
(Named after John
Calvin and Thomas
Hobbes)

20
The song 'Love ki Ghanti' from the 2013 Bollywood movie Besharam
made news for borrowing its tune from a popular song. However, Lalit
Pandit, (the composer of 'Love Ki Ghanti') made a safe bet in that he
didn't deny the similarities between the two songs, and luckily for him,
the author of the song isn't known and history doesn't give any clear
dates either (although a close estimation points to the second half of
the 19th century).
Which popular song am I talking about?
Audio File - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2wahu8bDMo
(Love ki Ghanti – Besharam, T-Series)

21
The idea behind the origin of this practice was that the lengthy process of
reloading would allow the soldiers onshore more than enough time to disable
the ship with their own weapons if required. This demonstrated the peaceful
intentions of the ship. According to one of the theories, the ships followed a
particular number with a Biblical reference associated with God resting after
creation in the Book of Genesis. This indicated ships resting after a long journey.
Whatever the underlying reason, the guns onshore would return fire as a form
of welcome once the incoming ship finished in a 3:1 ratio. Later on, as the ships
became larger, the ratio turned into 1:1.
What practice am I talking about?

21 Gun Salute
(Biblical reference was that God rested on the 7th day;
7x3 = 21)

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