The document contains a monthly quiz with questions from various topics. It includes 25 questions divided into 5 rounds. The questions cover topics like history, sports, entertainment, science and technology. Some of the questions ask the user to identify people, places, events, brands or terms based on clues and context provided in the question.

1. Quanta’s January Monthly Quiz
Flavor: General
Quiz Master: Varan Shukla
Total 25 questions

2. Round 1
•Direct: +10/0
•Pounce: +10/-10
•Infinite bounce
•Pounce to death

3. X is a company founded by Nick Woodman in 2002. He was motivated
by a 2002 surfing trip to Australia in which he was hoping to capture
quality photos, but could not due to lack of quality equipment at
reasonable prices. His desire to capture the professional angles gave X
its name. X is now the biggest and best in its area of industry.

4. GoPro

5. In October, 2016 X, a social media figure was robbed at gunpoint at X’s
hotel during visit to Paris Fashion Week. X was robbed of jewelry worth
$11 million including a $4 million ring. X kept away from all its social
media accounts for nearly 6 weeks.

6. Kim Kardashian

7. This event took place on 1 February 1981, in a ODI cricket match
between Australia and New Zealand, in the final of the Benson &
Hedges World Series Cup, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. With one
ball of the final over remaining, New Zealand required a six to tie the
match. To ensure that New Zealand did not get the runs they needed,
the Australian captain, Greg Chappell, instructed his bowler (and
younger brother), Trevor Chappell, to do something which became
controversial. What was it?

8. To bowl underarm

9. X, commonly known by his nickname "The Birdman", is an American
professional skateboarder, actor, and owner of skateboard
company Birdhouse. X is well known for completing the first
documented 900 and for his licensed video game titles, published
by Activision. He is widely considered to be one of the most successful
and influential pioneers of modern vertical skateboarding.[4]

10. Tony Hawk

11. Aibohphobia is a part of the fictional and humorous phobia family, and
it is described as the fear of X.
What is X?

12. Palindromes

13. Round 2
•Direct: +10/0
•Pounce: +10/-10
•Infinite bounce
•Pounce to death
•Starting from Last

14. In 1996, X suffered a freefall parachuting accident in Zambia when
X’s parachute ripped at 4900m, partially opening, causing X to fall and
crush three vertebrae.
Just 18 moths later X achieved his childhood dream of climbing to the
summit of Mount Everest in Nepal. At 23 years of age he disputably
became youngest Briton to have done so.
Name X.

15. Bear Grylls

16. X includes 11.5 million leaked documents created by a law firm
and corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca that detail personal
financial information about wealthy individuals and public officials and
attorney–client information for several offshore entities which had
previously been kept private. X revealed that some of the Mossack
Fonseca shell corporations were used for illegal purposes, including
fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion, and evading international sanctions.
X?

17. Panama Papers

18. What has been blacked out?

19. Coal-gate

20. Popularly known as X due to his channel name, Ajey Nagar is a trending
YouTuber from Faridabad famous for his rants of viral videos where he
mostly roast others. His videos are mostly made up of gameplays,
photos, clips of viral videos and his astonishing voice. X became one of
the fastest growing YouTube channels in India. As of today, X has more
than half a million subscribers and over 58 million views on his channel.
Name X.

21. CarryMinati

22. ____ is an e-commerce company headquartered in Mumbai. It was
started by an IIT Kanpur alumnus in 2008 as a product research and
price comparison service. In 2009 it adapted the marketplace model
and starts selling products online. Its slogan is “____ kiya kya?”, which
features in its many TV commercials.
FITB.

23. Naaptol

24. Round 3
•Direct: +10/0
•Pounce: +10/-10
•Infinite bounce

25. X is a term that originated during World War 1 to refer to the injury
sustained by soldiers due to exposure to bombardment. Today, X finds
modern day usage as a phrase meaning extreme stupor or confused
because of a sudden alarming experience.
What is X?

26. Shell shocked

27. In 1882, Mr. W L Lake, a Canadian engineer saw elephants emerging
out of the dense forests with oil stains on their feet. So the story goes,
that his shouts urging his men to drill the area for crude oil gave this
place its name.
This is possibly the most distilled – though fanciful – version of the
legend explaining the siting and naming of this town.
Name the town.

28. Digboi, Assam (Dig boy, dig)

29. Connect:
• Sanjay Dutt
• Ajay Devgan
• Saif Ali Khan
• Sunil Shetty
• Abhishek Bachchan
• Akshaye Khanna
• Manoj Bajpayee
• Nagarjuna
• Ashutosh Rana
• Raj Babbar

30. Cast of LOC Kargil movie

31. X in 2000 stated seven most famous and important unsolved
mathematics problems known as the Millennium Prize Problems. A
correct solution to any of the problem results in a US $1 million prize
being awarded by X to the discoverer(s).
At present Y is the only Millennium Prize problem to have been solved.
which was solved by the Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman in
2003. Grigori Perelman refused to receive the prize money and Fields
Medal award offered to him.
Name X and Y.

32. X - Clay Mathematics Institute,
Y - Poincaré Conjecture

33. In 2012 X changed its logo to a similar but new logo. Doug Bowman, the
company's Creative Director mentioned that the new logo "is crafted
purely from three sets of overlapping circles“. Name X.

34. Twitter

35. Round 4
•Direct: +10/0
•Pounce: +10/-10
•Infinite bounce
•Starting from last

36. In 1952 PM Jawaharlal Nehru was concerned that Indian women were
spending precious foreign exchange on this particular category of
products and imposed a ban on import of them. Later after a huge
protest from Indian women, he requested JRD Tata to manufacture
them in India. Subsequently a brand was form.
Name the brand.

37. Lakmé

38. Roy Raymond opened the first X store in 1977 at the Stanford Shopping
Center after feeling embarrassed trying to purchase a product for his
wife in a public department store. Today X dominates the market and
no other brand even comes close to its success. X’s stores are also
loved by shoplifters.
X?

39. Victoria’s Secret

40. X is a non-medical term for a range of injuries to the neck caused by or
related to a sudden distortion of the neck associated with extension.
The term X is a colloquialism.
We known the word X more famously as an Oscar winning movie.
X?

41. Whiplash

42. X is a term used as a common metaphor and X now applies to any
charitable person, especially one who rescues or helps out a
needy stranger.
X originates from didactic story told by Jesus. It is about a traveler
who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside
the road. First a priest and then a Levite comes by, but both avoid
the man. Finally, another person comes by and helps the injured
man. This gave X its name.
What is X?

43. Good Samaritan

44. In 2016 Summer Olympics at Rio when Michael Phelps won his 13th
individual gold medal in the 200m butterfly event he broke an ancient,
2168 year old Olympic record for 12 individual titles held by a Greek, X.
Who was X?

45. Leonidas of Rhodes

46. Round 5
• Direct: +15/0
• Pounce: +15/-15
• Infinite bounce

47. X is the largest and oldest society of great intellects in the world. It is a
non-profit organization open to people who score at 98th percentile or
higher on a standardized, supervised intelligence test. X’s name comes
from the word for "table" in Latin which is also symbolized in the
organization's logo, and was chosen to demonstrate the round-table
nature of the organization; the coming together of equals.
Name the organization X.

48. Mensa International

49. Written by Dale Carnegie X is one of the first best-selling self-
help books ever published. First published in 1936, it has sold over 30
million copies world-wide, and went on to be named #19 on Time
Magazine's list of 100 most influential books in 2011.
In 2011, a 3rd edition was released, titled “X in the Digital Age” written
by Dale Carnegie & Associates.
Warren Buffett took the Dale Carnegie course X when he was 20 years
old, and to this day has the diploma in his office.
What is X?

50. How to win friends and influence people

51. The XY is a motorcycle sport event held annually on X the since 1907.
The XY for many years was the most prestigious motorcycle race in the
world and seen as the ultimate test for competitors and machines alike.
XY has been traditionally run in a time-trial format on public roads of X
closed for racing.
Between 1907 and 2016 there have been 252 fatalities making it one of
the deadliest sports events.
Joey Dunlop, one of the greatest Motorcycle icons ever won a record
26 races in total at XY including three hat-tricks.
XY?

52. Isle of Man Tourist Trophy
X - Isle of Man
Y – Tourist Trophy

53. A massively multiplayer game released in 2015 was a quick success due
to social networks, becoming one of the most popular web and mobile
games in its first year. Players control a jelly like thing representing a
petri dish and eliminate others to score and stay alive.
The name of the game comes from a substance used to culture
bacteria in petri dish. Another reason of the name is because it means
“jelly” in Malay which also has a similar meaning to cell as many think
of it as jelly.
Which game?

54. agar.io

55. It is 45 feet(14m), and is 350 feet(110m) long. It was originally created
in 1923 as an advertisement for a local real estate development
company “____ Land”, it was one of the largest advertisement boards
in that era. It was also recently news for something. What is it?

56. Hollywood sign, Las Vegas