Finally, June 2018 Quiz, QM Pramita Prem & Utkarsh Talwar

1. finally

2. ROUND 1

3. 1. He is an actor, producer, TV host and a politician. He has won
numerous awards and has been nominated a total of 41 times.
In 2010, a gutka company, mimicked his voice for an ad without
his permission which triggered him to copyright the same. He
made his hollywood debut in 2013 starring along with Tobey
Mguire. Recently, he filed a complaint about the copyright
policy in India due to which he might lose claim to something
he inherited and made news. Who is he?

5. 2.
Actress Francia Raisa donated her kidney to her best friend who suffered
from Lupus, an autoimmune disease. In an interview with W Magazine,
she opened up about the stress the pair endured.
“They had to take X into emergency surgery because her artery broke . They
took a vein from her leg and built a new artery to keep my kidney in place.
She could have died.”
Who is she talking about?

6. Selena Gomez

7. 3.
• The average AAA game often takes a year or two to make.
For game developers that’s a lot of blood, sweat and tears
poured into a video game because of which they tend to
find a way to poke fun at both their expense and gamers,
like the makers of The Witcher poking fun at Assassin’s
creed’s perfectly well places bales of hay by making a leap
of death.
• Most of these subliminal messages or “easter eggs” are left
into source code without the publisher’s knowledge.
• The first easter egg ever to be made was on an Atari game,
referenced in the movie Ready: Player One. Name the
game and the maker.

8. Adventure by Warren Robinett

9. 4.
• Less than 24 hours after X took home the gold
medal for the women's halfpipe — at the age of
17, the youngest woman to do so when she was
asked by host Savannah Gutherie what it was like
to stand on the podium to receive her award
while the national anthem played, she gave what
might just be her most relatable response ever.
• "I was trying so hard to hold the tears back,
'cause I was like, I can't cry right now, I can't do
this, I worked so hard on my eyeliner,” she said.

10. Chloe Kim

11. 5.
• Speaking to the New Musical Express in 1974, X responded
to a question about his sexuality with: “I’m as gay as a
daffodil, my dear!”
• The famous singer’s simile summarises much about
himself; he had bags of personality, an out-there
imagination, and was bisexual, even cross-dressed on stage
and proud of it. But this was more than just a quirky answer
or a proud outburst however. It was a thoroughly brave
statement. This was 1974: still very much the dark ages
with regards to treatment of the LGBT community.
• On November 23, 1991, X publicly revealed that he was
living with HIV, confirming rumours that had been cruelly
circulated by a tabloid campaign. A day later he would die
from bronchopneumonia, brought on by the disease.

12. Freddie Mercury

13. 6.
• Emma González at a protest spoke for less than two
minutes and then suddenly fell silent.
• She stared straight ahead, breathing deeply while tears
streamed down her face. At times, the crowd of
thousands cheered her name and chanted, “Never
again,” while she held a powerful silence at the podium
for more than four minutes, until a timer beeped.
• “Since the time that I came out here, it has been six
minutes and 20 seconds,” she said, breaking her
silence.
• What is the significance of the time she fell silent for?

14. “Since the time that I came out here, it has been six
minutes and 20 seconds,” she said, breaking her
silence. “The shooter has ceased shooting and will soon
abandon his rifle, blend in with the students as they
escape, and walk free for an hour before arrest. Fight
for your lives before it’s someone else’s job.”

15. 7.
• He was an American comedian but often described
himself as a song and dance man. He came in
limelight after performing for Saturday Night Live in
1875 and in the TV show Taxi from 1978 to 1985. He
died of lung cancer in 1984 but rumors have circulted
that he faked his own death. He even had a
biographical movie with Jim Carrey playing his role in
1999.

16. Andy Kauffman

17. 8.
• Project MKUltra, also called as CIA Mind Control
program is the codename given to a program of
experiments on human subjects that were designed
by the CIA which were at times illegal. MKUltra used
numerous methods to alter brain function and
manipulate people’s mental states by administration
of drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation,
sexual abuse and torture.
• Name the main drug used.

18. LSD

19. 9.
• What is the medical condition named after
this Greek god?

20. Priapism

21. Round 2

22. 10.
• Anthropologist Jeffrey Meldrum has said that the fossil
remains of a ancient giant ape called Gigantopithecus could
turn out to be ancestors of today’s cryptid commonly known
as X.
• Matt Cartmil criticises this hypothesis “The trouble with this
account is that the Gigantopithecus was not even a hominid
and maybe not even hominoid. Yet physical evidence implies
that X is an upright biped with buttocks, a long snout and
permanently adducted hallux. These are hominin
autapomorphies not found in other mammals. It seems
unlikely.”
• What is X?

24. Bigfoot

25. 11. “Sorry we were too late, but we are here
now.”

26. • Savita Halappanavar’s septic abortion in 2012
in Ireland.

27. 12.

28. Heavenly bodies
Fashion and the catholic imagination

29. 13. What was the cause of this?

30. Kanye west

31. 14.
• The DotBusters was a hate group in New Jersey and New
York that attacked and threatened a particular group of
people in 1985-1993.
• Numerous incidents from vandalism to assault followed.
One of their more severe assualts was against Navroze
Mody, who was attacked with a baseball bat into a coma.
• Although tougher anti hate crime laws were passed in
1990 by the New Jersey Legislature, the crimes continued
with 58 hate crimes reported.
• Who were their victims and how did the name originate?

32. • Indians and Hindus, the name originated from
the Bindi that Hindu women wear on their
foreheads.

33. 15.
• This picture was released by NASA taken by the
satellite Juno in November, 2017.
• It is one of the most high definition pictures taken by
a satellite of this celestial body
• What is it?

35. Jupiter

36. 16.
• Snapchat came under fire after running an ad
created by a third party. They were called out
by X in an instagram post, which apparently
cost them $800 million and a 4% plunge in
stocks.
• What was the ad and who was X?

37. • “Would you slap Rihanna or punch Chris
Brown?”

38. 17. Identify the flag.

39. Bisexual flag

40. 18.

42. Round 3

43. • Name as many women as you can from the
music video Girls Like You by Maroon5.