This document summarizes the questions and answers from a May 2018 quiz. It had 3 rounds with a total of 12 questions. The questions covered topics like video games, movies, geography, history, and science. Multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions were asked. Bonus points were awarded for additional details provided in some answers. The document provides the questions, possible answers, and points awarded or deducted for various responses.

1. May 2018 Quiz
QM – Aproop Prabhu Dessai
NOT A RAJIV CHOWK QUIZ

2. ROUND 1
 12 questions.
 Infinite bounce. 3
pounces per team.
 At any stage if a team
answers wrong on the
pounce, they lose all
their pounces.
 +10/0 on the bounce.
 +10/-5 on the pounce.

3.  1) The video game Call of Duty : Black Ops released
in 2010 sparked controversy for a plot that allowed
players to carry out a particular mission.
 One prominent website wrote, “On one hand, the
game glorifies the attempts that in an illegal manner
the US Government planned against ______, while
on the other it stimulates sociopathic behaviour
among American children and adolescents, the main
consumers of those games.
 What was this mission?

4. SAFETY SLIDE

5. ASSASINATION OF FIDEL
CASTRO

6.  For an additional +5/0 (only on the pounce),
can you tell me which mission from Call of
Duty : Modern Warfare 2 attracted a lot of
controversy?

7. NO RUSSIAN (MASSACRE AT
ZAKHAEV AIRPORT, MOSCOW)

8.  2) X has been featured in every Fast and Furious
movie, except the latest one, i.e. The Fate of the
Furious.
 It all started when X sent a few of their products
to the production company. Since then, this has
resulted in free advertisement worth over 15
million dollars, as the parent company Anheuser-
Busch InBev never paid them.
 The first mention of X is heard when Dominic
Toretto tells Brian O’Conner, “You can have any
Y you want, as long it’s a X.”
 What is X?

9. SAFETY SLIDE

11.  3) 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W
 It lies in the South Pacific Ocean, 2,688 km
(1,670 mi) from the nearest lands: Ducie Island (part
of the Pitcairn Islands) in the north, Motu Nui (part of
the Easter Islands) in the northeast, and Maher
Island (near the larger Siple Island, off the coast
of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica) in the south.
 X was first featured in the short story, The Call of
Cthulhu, by H. P. Lovecraft as the location of the
fictional city of R'lyeh.
 The area is also known as a "spacecraft cemetery”
because hundreds of decommissioned satellites,
space stations, and other spacecraft have been
deposited there upon re-entering the atmosphere to
lessen the risk of hitting inhabited
locations or maritime traffic.
 What is X?

12. SAFETY SLIDE

13. POINT NEMO

14.  4) In a recent interview a 79 year old Naren Chandra
Das recounted the events of a certain day in 1959.
"I was posted at Lumla post as a member of 9
platoon of Assam Rifles, much away from the border.
One night we were woken up by the subedar at
around 3 am and told to hurriedly prepare and have
our breakfast and pack our lunch. Six of us rifleman
were led by our section commander Naik Debu
Singh Gurung to go to Shakti. There were no roads,
no vehicles and not even radio signals. We covered
the distance to Shakti in one day on foot, although it
usually takes 2 days. On March 31, we started on
our return journey to Lumla, escorting X and his 20
bodyguards. We ran all the way to keep pace with X
on horseback. “
Who was Naren Chandra Das escorting?

15. SAFETY SLIDE

17.  5) Glacier National Park hired Gracie, a dog tasked
with keeping the park’s wildlife at a safe distance
from the visitors.
 He’s the park’s first ever X.
 FITB with a two word designation, a pun on the
designation of another human official at the park.

19. SAFETY SLIDE

20. BARK RANGER

21.  6) The Cassia fistula tree is native to South and SE
Asia. In Goa, it is supposed to mark the arrival of
monsoons as it flowers around 2 weeks before the
first rains arrive. Its common name though would
bring to mind a certain controversy involving a
certain world leader.
 What?

23. SAFETY SLIDE

24. GOLDEN SHOWERS

25.  7) In 1975, Heublein Inc. (the then parent company
of Y) unsuccesfully sued X after he made
controversial comments about their food.
 “My God, that gravy is horrible. They buy tap water
for 15 to 20 cents a thousand gallons and then they
mix it with flour and starch and end up with pure
wallpaper paste. And I know wallpaper paste, by
God, because I’ve seen my mother make it. There’s
no nutrition in it and they ought not to be allowed to
sell it.
 Who was X?

26. SAFETY SLIDE

28.  8) A question along the lines of the latest movie in
the MCU :
What major event in the 13th century was
responsible for scrubbing 700 million tonnes of
carbon from the atmosphere, which is roughly the
same amount of carbon generated in a year through
global petrol consumption?

29. SAFETY SLIDE

30. GENGHIS KHAN

31.  9) Fahrenheit 451 will be released as a Netflix movie
on May 19. Who will be playing the role of Guy
Montag?
 (For additional +/- 5, tell me which Indian born
personality has been casted in the movie)

32. SAFETY SLIDE

34.  10) With the Bechdel test losing most of its
popularity, the Vito Russo test is being used more
often by many a film critic.
 Some of the movies that have passed this tes
include The Imitation Game, Moonlight, Skyfall and
Pitch Perfect.
 What is the Vito Russo test?
 (For additional +/- 5, tell me what the Bechdel test is)

35. SAFETY SLIDE

36. The Vito Russo test evaluates the
potrayal of LGBT characters.
The Bechdel test evaluates the
potrayal of women.

37.  11) The highlight of this week in the world of sport
was Mark Williams beating Chris Higgins in the final
of the World Snooker Championship.
 The only problem after winning was that he now had
to fulfill a promise he’d made before the finals.
 He agreed but told the very enthusiastic crowd, “As
long as Barry Hearn is not going to fine me or
discipline me, I’ll have to do it.”
What was his promise?

38. SAFETY SLIDE

39.  12) X is a fictional character in the series Lemony
Snickets by Daniel Handler. She is an optometrist
who lives in a building shaped like an eye. She uses
hypnosis to brainwash her victims into hating other
characters/things.
 Her name is a femalised version of an authot who is
known for writing about mind control, among other
things.
 ID X.

40. SAFETY SLIDE

41. GEORGINA ORWELL

42. ROUND 2
 5 questions.
 Pounce only.
 +10/-5
 If a team answers wrong,
they lose their chance to
answer the rest of the
questions.

43.  1) Identify this person who invented X and pioneered
its use in diagnosis of various conditions, in addition
to saving doctors a lot of embarassment on a daily
basis.

44. SAFETY SLIDE

45. RENÉ LAENNEC

46.  2)The picture shows one of the pages from Ulrich
Pinder’s Epiphanie Medicorum which was printed in
1506 in Nuremberg, Germany.
 What information is it conveying?

48. SAFETY SLIDE

49. DISEASES BASED ON URINE
COLOUR

50.  3) Felix Hoffman’s father was a patient of rheumatoid
arthritis and was taking large doses of Sodium X
which used to cause a lot of gastric distress. While
working for Bayer in 1897, he synthesised Y, which
he believed was a better alternative to Sodium X.
 The same month, in an attempt to acetylate Y to
produce Codeine, he accidentally synthesised Z.
 Y ended up being one of the most widely used drugs
of all time, whereas Z did not manage to reach such
heights.
 What are Y and Z?

51. SAFETY SLIDE

52. Y – ASPIRIN
Z - HEROIN

54.  4) Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a type of non-
ischemic cardiomyopathy in which there is a sudden
temporary weakening of the myocardium. This
weakening may be triggered by stress. Stress
cardiomyopathy is now a well-recognized cause of
acute heart failure, lethal ventricular arrhythmias,
and ventricular rupture.
 The name "takotsubo syndrome" comes from the
Japanese word takotsubo "octopus trap," because
the left ventricle takes on a shape resembling
a fishing pot.
 What is Takotsubo cardiomyopathy also known as?

55. SAFETY SLIDE

57.  5) Identify this person, who was a pioneer of 20th
century vascular surgery and has been the reason
for relieving doctors’ stress on a daily basis.

59. SAFETY SLIDE

60. NIKOLAI KOROTKOV

61. ROUND 3
 6 questions.
 Answer only on
pounce.
 +5/0.
 You can attempt the
theme after questions
2, 4 and 6.
 +60/-40, +40/-20,
+20/0/

62. 1) Identify the woman in the picture.

63.  2) Censorship is one of the necessary evils today.
But its misuse has become pretty common, with
China at the top of this list.
 Which children’s character was banned recently
in China and why?

64. For the connect +60/-40

65. 1) JAYALALITHA
2) XI JINPING (WINNIE THE
POOH)

66. 3) Identify the personality who has
been recently associated with her.

67.  4) Maddox Chivan – 16 years
 Pax Thien – 14 years
 Zahara Marley – 13 years
 Shiloh Nouvel – 11 years
 Vivienne Marcheline – 9 years
 Knox Leon – 9 years
 Connect.

68. For the connect +40/-20

69. 3) DONALD TRUMP (STORMY
DANIELS)
4) ANGELINA JOLIE (BRAD PITT)

70.  5) X was a member of the musical group Destiny’s
Child umtil they disbanded in 2006. She then
pursued her solo career which spawned multiple
hits. Her marriage to Y influenced her third album “I
Am… Z”, which saw the introduction of her alter
ego, and which won 6 Grammy Awards.
 Identify X and Y.

71. 6) What is blanked out?

72. For the connect +20/0

73. 5) BEYONCE
6) DAVID ATTENOBOURGH

74. Organisms named after
people.

75. KOSCHEN-ROULETTE (in the event
of a tie)
 Within 100 seconds, note down as many
actresses as you can who have been casted in
the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

76. This will be the last quiz before this group
goes on a hiatus due to educational
reasons.
THANK YOU.