Lockdown quiz (General Quiz) - Questions with answers

21 questions were asked from March 25, 2020 to April 14, 2020, one question each day.

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

2. 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)

3. X – Dr. Li Wenliang Y – Huanan Seafood Market

4. 02 Connect.

5. 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.

6. 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

7. X – Warren Hastings Y – Edmund Burke

8. 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

9. X – Radhabinod Pal Y – Irrfan Khan

10. 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

11. Water

12. 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?

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

14. 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

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

16. 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.

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

18. 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)

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

20. 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.

21. Streisand

22. 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.

23. X – Jetson Blank - Heartbeat

24. 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.

25. X – Michael Kremer Blank – O-ring

26. 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?

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

28. 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.

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

30. 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?

31. Time Pyramid, Germany

32. 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.

33. Plague

34. 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

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

36. 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

37. Herakles/Hercules

38. 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?

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

40. 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)

41. Bella Ciao

42. 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?

43. 21 Gun Salute (Biblical reference was that God rested on the 7 th day; 7x3 = 21 )

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