A short quiz conducted as part of online quiz meetups at JIPMER, as an experiment to try ways to conduct buzzer rounds on online platforms. Do send in your feedback!

1. BUZZER QUIZ
Quiz Meetups @ Zoom
Jayakrishna J
June 28 2020

2. Part 1
• 5 questions
• First to ‘raise hand’ gets to answer
• +10/-5
• Questions will be read out by QM – won’t appear on screen

3. Q1
Developed by Akii Interactive and approved after 7 years of
clinical trials involving 600 children, EndeavorRx is prescribed for
25 minutes a day, five days in a week . Frustration and headache
are the major reported adverse effects, which is much lower
compared to the adverse effects of the commonly used drugs like
amphetamine and methylphenidate for this condition. What was
so special about this treatment?

4. Q1
Developed by Akii Interactive and approved after 7 years of
clinical trials involving 600 children, EndeavorRx is prescribed for
25 minutes a day, five days in a week . Frustration and headache
are the major reported adverse effects, which is much lower
compared to the adverse effects of the commonly used drugs like
amphetamine and methylphenidate for this condition. What was
so special about this treatment?
It is a video game to treat ADHD

5. Q2
This drug combination used orally to treat moderate to
severe pain in the US and also commonly as a
recreational drug is a combination of Acetaminophen and
hydrocodone. It was named so because it was supposedly
6 times as powerful as the methyl-morphine (codeine).
Which drug which most of us would have heard of due to
a fictional addict?

6. Q2
This drug combination used orally to treat moderate to
severe pain in the US and also commonly as a
recreational drug is a combination of Acetaminophen and
hydrocodone. It was named so because it was supposedly
6 times as powerful as the methyl-morphine (codeine).
Which drug which most of us would have heard of due to
a fictional addict?
Vicodin, House MD

7. Q3
This device used in suits for astronauts and divers is a
cable used to supply required consumables such as air
and power. For example, they can be used to supply
oxygen and to remove the carbon dii oxide in space suits.
What is it called, named after something in the human
body that does a similar function?

8. Q3
This device used in suits for astronauts and divers is a
cable used to supply required consumables such as air
and power. For example, they can be used to supply
oxygen and to remove the carbon dii oxide in space suits.
What is it called, named after something in the human
body that does a similar function?
Umbilical cord / cable

9. Q4
In general relativity, what two word term is used to
refer to a hypothetical region of space-time and
singularity which cannot be entered from the
outside, even though light and energy – matter can
escape out?

10. Q4
In general relativity, what two word term is used to
refer to a hypothetical region of space-time and
singularity which cannot be entered from the
outside, even though light and energy – matter can
escape out?
White hole

11. Q5
Originally, the Popes used to be grant privileges, such as
appointments, to their sons though they used to refer to
them as sons of their siblings.Which word which was
recently in the news was thus derived from the root word
for nephew?

12. Q5
Originally, the Popes used to be grant privileges, such as
appointments, to their sons though they used to refer to
them as sons of their siblings.Which word which was
recently in the news was thus derived from the root word
for nephew?
Nepotism

13. BUZZER + CONNECT
Part 2

14. Buzzer + Connect
Buzzer
• 7 Questions on the buzzer
• Questions will be read out by the QM – images may accompany
• DM the answers (privately) to the QM within 15 seconds of reading out the Q
• First correct answer gets +10
• Others: +5/-5
Connect
• The questions or their answers indirectly lead to an underlying theme
• Guess the theme on pounce – scoring will be displayed on screen

15. Q1
In 2006, two American researchers conducted an experiment in
which they concluded that people who were reminded of
unethical acts that they had committed, tended to do things such
as washing their hands and think more about cleaning themselves
and that this, they felt was associated with a lowering of their
sense of guilt.
After which fictional queen, who deludes herself that a little water
will clear her of the deed of plotting a king’s murder did they
name this effect?

16. Lady Macbeth
Effect
Q 1

17. Theme: +40 / -20

18. Q2
This is a minimalist poster
for a 1998 movie,
considered to be one of the
greatest and most
influential war movies ever
made.
Which movie, which had the
tagline “The Mission is a
man’ ?

19. Saving Private
Ryan
Q 2

20. Theme: +35 / -15

21. Q3
During a visit of the France – Switzerland border,
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorerVon
Humboldt noticed that a range of mountains there,
(named from the Celtic root word jor, for wooded
mountains) was made of mainly limestone and hence
had to be a separate formation that could not b put
into the then established stratigraphic system.Thirty
years later, when a survey of the different terrains
constituting the crust of the earth was made, a term
named after the range was used for the first time.
Which term, that would make most of us think of air
breathing vertebrates covered with scales or bony
plates ?

22. Jurassic
Q 3

23. Theme: +30 / -15

24. Q4
In order to improve the last mile delivery of products,
Flipkart partnered in 2015 with a 130+ year old Mumbai
organization well known for their reliability.The members
would pick up prepaid goods to be delivered from the
Flipkart marketplace and deliver to customers in their
assigned areas, while doing what they are known for.
Which organization, started in 1890 and registered under
the name Nutan Mumbai ______ ___ SuppliersTrust did
they partner with?

25. The Dabbawalas
Q 4

26. Theme: +25 / -10

27. Q5
The daughter of Indian immigrants from Bengal, her
proper name is Nilanjana Sudeshna, but her kindergarten
teacher in Rhode island found it very difficult to
pronounce and started calling her by her pet name, which
is how we know her now.
Which famous writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction in 2000?

28. Jhumpa Lahiri
Q 5

29. Theme: +20 / -10

30. Q6
Creating mnemonics and other methods to memorize this
has been an active field among many enthusiasts.The
current record holder could memorise the first 70000 by
transforming them into an object in his memory palace.
A useful and easy mnemonic for the first ten would be
“May I have a large container of coffee,Thank you”.
What?

31. Digits of Pi
Q 6

32. Theme: +15 / -5

33. Q7
This person served as a Subedar in the
Indian Army, where his talent for
running was discovered. He was a star
athlete, winning the national
championships in Steeplechase seven
times in the 1950s and 60s and went on
to represent India ath the 1958 Asian
games.
What was his name?

34. Paan Singh
Tomar
Q 7

35. Theme: +10 / -5

36. THEME?

38. Was set during the
Normandy Invasion
Which is referred to as

44. Theme

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