Non medical Quiz on the Pandemic for StudentsforCovidRelief

1. PANDEMONIU
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QM : ISHITA DAS
Finals
24th Jan 11
am

2. PANDEMONIUM FINALS
2 podium
1. History (5 questions) Pounce/Infinite Bounce
2. Etymology (5 questions) Pounce Only
3. Dries (1-10) Pounce Only
4. Dries (11-20) Pounce/Infinite Bounce

3. History

4. Q 1
This incident was long considered among the first
descriptions of an epidemic. The epidemic killed
around one quarter of the city-state’s population
including its warrior leader, and is believed to
have entered through the city's port and sole
source of food and supplies.
In Jan 1999, University of Maryland attributed this
to Typhus.
What was this famous ancient epidemic, in the
summer of 430 BC , described by historian
Thucydides, while stating his accounts of
Peloponnesian War ?

6. A 1
The Plague of Athens

7. Q 2
The 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus to
Americas led to transmission of communicable
diseases on both sides of the Atlantic. While it is
believed that syphilis was carried by the sailors of
Columbus to Europe, diseases of the Old World
like smallpox, anthrax and measles that came with
the explorers caused widespread loss of lives in
the New World.
What was the romanticised term used for the
trans-Atlantic transfer based on the explorer, as
identified by Alfred Crosby in 1972 ?

9. A 2
The Columbian Exchange

10. Q 3
Contrary to the popular view, as researched by Dr.
John Barry, this Pandemic of the early 20th century
started as an outbreak at the Haskell County in rural
Kansas and then spread to soldiers at Camp Funston
in the U.S. state. War, coupled with seafaring
soldiers helped in spread of the Pandemic.
To the World, what was the name of this pandemic
and why was this name chosen ?
What was the Pandemic known as in the country
featured in its nomenclature ?

12. A 3
Spanish Flu
King Alfonso XIII of Spain being gravely sick gave
rise to speculation that he was stuck by a flu. News
from war- neutral Spain being uncensored, the
name Spanish Flu remained, though Spain actually
had very less instance.
In Spain itself, the nickname for the flu, the "Naples
Soldier", was adopted from a 1916 operetta, The
Song of Forgetting (La canción del olvido) after one
of the librettists quipped that the play's most
popular musical number, Naples Soldier, was as
catchy as the flu.

13. Q 4
In 1543 Portuguese ruled Goa, death of every
person in this disease was associated with Ring of
the church Bell. But as the death count rose, this
sombre practice was stopped to spread panic
among people.
A few decades later physician Garcia De Orta
attributed the disease to “eating disorders” and
excessive “conversation with women” as to some
of the causes.
What was this disease, which was also refered to as
“moryxy” by the Portuguese ?

15. A 4
Cholera

16. Q 5
The interesting pattern started in 1976 with
Ebola, which ravaged West Africa and killed
13,500 people; the Nipah virus of 1998 with a
78% fatality; and then the Coronaviruses of the
last 20 years: SARS of 2002, which spread to 29
countries with 774 deaths; MERS in 2012 that
spread to 28 countries resulting in 858 deaths;
and of course COVID-19, the pandemic that has
devastated the world more than anyone in this
world today probably remembers.
What interesting zoonotic origin am I talking
about , and what is unique to them ?

18. A 5
Bats.
The different strains infect bats, which seem to
be co-evolving with the viruses. Hence, bats have
powerful immune systems and do not fall sick.
But when these viruses jump from them to
other species such as a civet or a pangolin or a
human, the result can be deadly, as we see
now.

19. Etymology

20. Q 1
In 1917 French Canadian scientist Félix H.
d’Hérelle, found lesions in cultures of bacteria,
attributed to an agent called X .Like all virus, X is
composed of a protein nucleic acid molecule
surrounded by a protein structure.
What is the good word for X, now known to be
viruses that specifically infect bacteria. It’s a
portmanteau, the second part of is derived from
the Greek word which means “to devour”

22. A 1
Bacteriophage
Greek word to devour = Phagein

23. Q 2
Amidst Pandemic crisis , a special and little-
known method of holistic self healing using
water and highly diluted saliva homeopathically,
received much attention last year.
In fact, homeopath Jiri Cehovsky also authored a
book on the same topic.
Name this self cleansing holistic healing
method which is also the name of the book

25. A 2
Autopathy

26. Q 3
Introduction of the process was resisted by
staunch Hindus in India. In the 1950s, a
superstar’s action led to youngsters to be more
receptive to the process.
In 2011 Kai Kupferschmidt in Science Magazine
opined that though the origin was attributed to a
particular animal , the English doctor may actually
have used an equestrian strain for his
experiment to pioneer this.
What process am I talking about ?

28. A 3
Vaccination
Etymologically the word comes from Latin word
“vacca” meaning Cow. Edward Jenner in 1796
isolated cowpox strain and injected into a
healthy boy who subsequently did not develop
the smallpox. As cow was sacred in India many
Hindus resisted the move to vaccinate in 1918
against Small pox.
In 1950s, Elvis Priesley took the shot before the
Ed Sullivan show which popularised taking shots
in US kids.

29. Q 4
One of the measurements of proportion of
population infected is antibody positivity in a
random sample. Presence of antibody in blood
serum at a particular time confirms that the host
was infected in past.
What is this study of detection of prevalence of
antibodies called ?

31. A 4
Seroprevalence Survey or Serosurvey

32. Q 5
X was used as a name for the Vespers in the Office
of the Dead, taken from a phrase used from
the Vulgate's Psalm. It meant someone who falsely
claimed a connection to the deceased to get a
share of the funeral meal, and hence a flatterer,
and so a deceptive act to please.
In medical terminology X means an inert substance
with no therapeutic value.
What is the term X, recently in controversy for a
double blind test that shook the nation ?

34. A 5
Placebo
Deepak Maravi Case

35. Dries – Pounce Only

36. Tribute (4)

37. Q 1
Many credit his now-shuttered Manhattan
restaurant, Tabla, with marking a new era for Indian
cuisine in New York. Restaurateur David Chang of
Momofuku fame commented “He was criminally
under appreciated, introduced so many new
flavours and techniques to America."
His much appreciated Mumbai restaurants The
Bombay Canteen, O Pedro and the Bombay Sweet
Shop were much appreciated by Vir Sanghvi in the
HT weekly column Rude Food .
Name this Celebrity Chef , whose obituary at
Business Standard had a reference to the cookbook
he authored.

39. A 1

40. Q 2
“X was a legend,” Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New
Orleans wrote on Twitter on 1st April 2020. “He
was the prototype of what we mean when we talk
about New Orleans jazz.”
In fact X and his students Terence Blanchard,
Donald Harrison Jr., Harry Connick Jr. and
Nicholas Payton became the leaders in a
burgeoning traditionalist movement, loosely
referred to as the Young Lions.
Name the iconic Educator and pianist who was
considered founder of the first family of jazz , who
succumbed to Covid19 in first half of 2020

42. A 2
Ellis Marsalis

43. Q 3
When he relocated to Nashville in the mid-1960s,
there had never been an African American singing
country music. Some within the industry resisted the
concept. Finally he received a recording contract—
with RCA Victor—in 1965, with the backing of
producer Jack Clement, who had worked with country
music legend Johnny Cash.
In a career span of 20 years, his rich baritone earned
him multiple awards including Grammy in both
1971,1972 and 2017 and induction into the Country
Music Hall of Fame in 2000.
Who is this pioneer African American country singer
who had a namesake song that made John Denver
famous ? The Album epithet is a clue.

45. A 3
Charley Pride

46. Q 4
Each pair of shoes under this eponymous brand took at
least 14 hours to make and went through 120 different
stages. They were seen on runways for Gianni
Versace and Dolce & Gabbana. The brand first gained
attention in 1960 when film director Federico Fellini
used his shoe for actress Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita.
In March 2020, this company donated €100,000 in a
joint effort from the fashion industry to combat
the coronavirus pandemic in Italy. Ironically , the man
behind the brand himself succumbed to the disease on
2nd April 2020.
Name this iconic shoemaker whose brand was sold to
Kerring in 1999 and thereafter by Kerring to
InvestIndustrial in 2015

48. A 4
Sergio Rossi

49. Mix and Match (6)

50. Q 5
Beatrice Lindstorm is a Human rights lawyer and
activist , from Harvard Law school.
Haiti was hit by a devastating Earthquake in 2010
and nine months later by a Cholera epidemic, due
to contamination of drinking water of
Artibonite River by a sewage leak due to faulty
waste management by a global entity.
Identify this global entity that Beatrice Lindstorm
voiced her dissent against, responsible for Cholera
at Haiti.

52. A 5
UN Peacekeeping force

53. Q 6
Connect

55. A 6
Bubonic Plague/ Yersinia
Pestis/Black Death
Alexandre Yersin (22 September 1863 – 1 March 1943)
was a dual national Swiss and French physician and
bacteriologist, who discovered the cause of Bubonic
Plague. The bacteria was named Yersinia Pestis.
Hamnet Shakespeare, Son of William Shakespeare
succumbed to Black Death in 1596
Flagellants were practitioners of an extreme form
of mortification of their own flesh by whipping it with
various instruments, did provide some comfort to
people who felt powerless in the face of inexplicable
tragedy

56. Q 7
In 1897, Reports of Bubonic Plague were met with
a strict Sanitisation drive at Pune, under the
supervision of Walter Rand. There was wanton and
indiscriminate destruction of the property during
searches, complaints of sexual harassment of
women by the army deployed, detain of “perfectly
healthy” persons and, in some cases, even
neighbours and passers-by were packed to
segregation camps. As a protest to the atrocities
Rand was murdered by the Chapekar brothers in
1897.
In view of this incident, who was arrested and
imprisoned for 18 months in charge of sedition for
abetting the murder through his newpaper
editorials ?

58. A 7
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Sedition under Section 124 of Indian Penal code
~ by glorifying and justifying Shivaji’s killing of
Afzal Khan in the 17th century, he directly
supported violence and resultantly caused murders
of the two British officers barely a week after the
publication of the articles

59. Q 8
The precursor to the experiments started at the
Zhongma Fortress prison on the South Manchuria
Railway.
The facility was expanded in 1936 under patronage
of King Hirohito under the commandership of
General Shiiro Ishii. The official name for
establishment was ”Epidemic Prevention and
Water Purification Department” whereas the
practise had the parlance of a lumber mill.
“How many logs fell?” was a common question
asked.
What was the intent of the experiments ?

61. A 8
Unit 731
Biological Warfare (development of the defoliation
bacilli bomb and the flea bomb used to spread
bubonic plague )

62. Post the communist victories in Southeast Asia in 1975,
Hmong tribe refugees began to report symptoms such as
bleeding from the nose and gums, tremors, seizures,
blindness, and, in some cases, death, post an unnatural
precipitation . These tribes supported United States
against Laos. Further reports surfaced of similar
experiences by Khmer tribes in Cambodia in 1978 and by
anti-Soviet resistance fighters in Afghanistan in 1979. In
1981 the United States accused the Soviet Union of
supplying their allies in Laos and Vietnam with
trichothecene mycotoxins which led to the incident.
Evidence of the material seemed to be airborne release of
faeces by swarms of giant Asian honeybees.
What was the phenomenon of artificial precipitation that
the Hmong tribe experienced in 1975 ?
Q 9

64. Yellow Rain – Biological Warfare, as opined by Alexander
Haig
UN investigations were inconclusive.
A 9

65. Q 10
Connect these to a two–word term used to describe their effect in the
Pandemic , though not quite accurately.

67. A 10
SUPER SPREADER EVENTS
The Shincheonji church aggregation at South
Korea and the Tablighi Jamaat at Nizammudin,
Delhi were religious gatherings that allegedly
have acted as super-spreaders of the disease.
British claimed Puri Rathyatra to be a
superspreader of Cholera

68. Ten for the Road (10)
Pounce/Infinite Bounce

69. Q 11
Jani Beg was a Mongol Ruler of the Golden Horde who ruled
from 1342 to 1357. The Chudov Monastery of Moscow is
believed to have been built on a land he donated as his
mother was cured miraculously by Metropolitan Alexei.
In Popular Culture, Jani Beg is credited with a unique war
strategy once he found that his ranks were infested by Black
Plague , during a siege of the post city of Kaffa in 1345 to
target Genoese soldiers.
What strategy did he employ ? How did this event have an
effect on Europe ?

71. A 11
He catapulted diseased corpses instead of
canon balls targeting to infest the enemies
and weaken defence.
According to an Italian notary, Gabriele de’
Mussi, the infected who escaped Kaffa by boat
intermingled with fellow Europeans and thus
the contagious disease spread. Siege of Kaffa
may have been the origin point for the Plague’s
introduction into Europe.

72. Q 12
In 1882, Messers Dodd and Monk of Albert Mill,
Cheshire, made the design for a wide cloth
waistband made of flannel or wool worn around
the stomach. This waistband was supposed to chill
the abdomen and most army men used to wear
this below the shirt.
What was this belt known as popularly, despite
the discoveries of Dr. John Snow ?

74. A 12
Cholera Belt

75. Q 13
Epidemics in India around 1918-20 saw
unprecedented deaths and many dead bodies
were disposed off in the forests due to lack of
people to properly cremate them in burning ghats.
In the present state of Uttarakhand, such disposal
of the dead led to a imbalance in the food chain
leading to victimization of hapless Hindu Pilgrims
of a holy site. What was the saga that came to an end
in 1925, and was the subject of an 1947 work.

77. A 13
Leopards turned Man eaters , due to easy food
availability . One such male Leopard at
Rudraprayag preyed on pilgrims who visited
Kedarnath and Badrinath , devouring 125 human
lives. Finally was killed by Jim Corbett in 1925.
Jim Corbett wrote the famous book “Man Eating
Leopard of Rudraprayag” subsequently in 1947,
published by Oxford University Press

78. Q 14
Dehydration was a major cause of death during the
1829 cholera pandemic in Russia and Western
Europe. In 1953, an Indian physician Hemendra
Nath Chatterjee who published his results in The
Lancet, demonstrated its effectiveness in
Diarrhoea.
But it was Rafiqul Islam, a Bangladeshi physician
and medical scientist who is credited with the
discovery during the 1971 treatment of
Bangladesh war refugees, which he called as
"Dhaka Saline”
What am I talking about, which was recognised
finally in the year 1980 by the World Health
Organization ?

80. A 14
Orosaline
Oral Rehydration Solution
a "half a seer" (half a quart) of water and adding a
fistful of sugar and a three-finger pinch of salt

81. Q 15
When COVID-19 was detected among passengers
on the cruise ship Diamond Princess, the vessel
offered a rare opportunity to understand features
of the new coronavirus that were hard to
investigate in the wider population. One of this
finding was that elderly people with co-morbidity
was likely to be at more risk due to the virus.
The Japanese authorities put some stringent
restrictions on “Diamond Princess” and by 20th
February, 18% of affected showed no symptoms.
As per Kenji Mizumoto, an epidemiologist at
Kyoto University in Japan, what measure at
‘Diamond princess” helped contain the virus ?

83. A 15
Cabin Quarantine

84. Q 16
One of the theories attributed to the spread of the
SARS-CoV-2 is that its spike protein contains a
highly infectious, misfolded, self replicating
particle called prions. Two effects of prions are
seen in Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (mad
cow disease) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in
humans.
In popular culture, because of their ability to
quickly switch their appearance between two
forms , the prions are also analogous to X. The
organisms having X characteristics are Vitamin B
deficient having pellagra like conditions.
Identify X

86. A 16
Vampires

87. Q 17
Mr. Wu Yifang is the Executive Director, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of a leading healthcare
group in China with strong presence in medical
devices and diagnostics, healthcare services,
pharmaceutical distribution and retail.
Recently, the company has been in World news
due to partnership with two more well known
pharmaceutical companies for developing the
mRNA based COVID 19 vaccine approved by US
and UK.
Identify the group that Mr. Yifang heads.

89. A 17
Fosun Pharma
Pfizer- BioNtech- Fosun Pharma mRNA based
Covid vaccine Cominarty (BNT162b2) has been
approved to be effective by US and UK

90. Q 18
Vera Ferrón Vílchez, University of Granada, describes “the
biased disclosure of information on the company’s actions
developed to address issues related to Covid-19” as
“coronawashing”. Few examples of such phenomenon was
observed in 2020.
A fast-fashion retailers in the UK, donated 400,000 of its
products to frontline workers, volunteers and patients globally,
including 74,000 products delivered to the NHS Nightingale
Hospital in London, yet made no commitment to pay in full for
orders completed and in production.
Another one, a sports goods major, offered free premium access
to its training and running apps and collaborated with Carbon
to produce 3D-printed face shields, yet, decided to suspend
rental payments on its own-brand retail outlets.
Name these two companies

92. A 18
Primark
Adidas

93. Q 19
This is the logo of Australian Made, a trade logo
promoting Australia's interests overseas. In 2019
there was a different logo chosen for the same,
based on another national symbol of Australia.
However, due to mounting public pressure, the
new logo was not adopted.
MasterChef Australia winner Adam Liaw took to
Twitter to defend the thinking behind the design.
"Unpopular opinion, but pre-COVID this
would've been great”.
What was so controversial in the new logo that it
was not adopted ?

95. A 19
The New Logo based on the Golden
Wattle, the national flower of Australia,
was opposed as it resembled the Corona
Virus

96. Q 20
Adult-sized masks may not be suitable for small
faces. Looking at this problem, technology
company Airmotion cooperated with Danish
design studio Kilo Design to come up with a
mask specifically for children.
This modular system that the mask comes in,
encourages children and parents to put the parts
together, piece by piece, to build the finished
product. This interaction helps kids to customize
the mask the way they like it.
What is this mask named as, with a namesake
award-winning technology company with offices
in New York, London and Tel Aviv ?

98. A 20

99. Hoping for a Pandemic Free Future for our
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