1. The document discusses the details of an event called Pandemonium including the date and time of the prelims and finals. 2. It provides questions and answers on topics related to the history and origin of words related to epidemics and diseases. References are made to authors like Homer, Hippocrates, and works like the Arthashastra. 3. Literary works like poems and movies that gained relevance during the COVID pandemic are also discussed with questions about the authors and details from the plots.

1. PANDEMONIU
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QM : ISHITA DAS
Prelims
23rd Jan 6 pm
Finals
24th Jan 11 am

2. PANDEMONIUM PRELIMS
Acknowledgement:
Studentsforcovidrelief
Shanya Sharma
Abhinav Dasgupta for graciously being the curator
All the participants

3. Q 1
Pre Hippocrates , this portmanteau word was used
by Homer in the epic Odyssey to combine a
preposition and a noun to mean loosely “who is
back home” .
Orators like Demosthenes (384 BC–322 BC) used
this word in its verb form to mean "to reside.“
In the Corpus Hippocraticum (5th Century),
Hippocrates used the adjective form of this word
to mean "which circulates or propagates in a
country“.
What’s the good word that means outbreaks of
disease confined to one part of the world, such as
a single country ?
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4. A 1
Homer used epi (on) demos (people)
Demosthenas and Eschines used the word
epidemeo which was used to mean "to reside"
Hippocrates used the adjective epidemios to
mean "which circulates or propagates in a country"
.This adjective gave rise to the noun in
Greek, epidemia.
The good word looking for was “Epidemic”
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5. Ishita Das
Q 2
“Calamities due to acts of god are fire, floods,
diseases, epidemics and famine. Other calamities
could include ‘divine origins’ like rats, wild animals,
snakes and evil spirits. It is the duty of the king to
protect the people from all these calamities.”
a) Identify the book and
b) the author who is considered to be one of
the most revered teachers in India.
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6. Ishita Das
A 2
a) Arthashastra
b) Kautilya
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7. Ishita Das
Its argued that the epidemics like Cholera in India killed more
army men than the War itself. The following is an excerpt
from a poem called “Cholera Camp” depicting the poor
condition of infantry in India. It was first published in
McClure's Magazine in October 1896 by a renowned English
author.
“ There ain’t no fun in women nor there ain’t no bite to drink;
It’s much too wet for shootin’, we can only march and think;
An’ at evenin’, down the nullahs, we can ’ear the jackals say,
“Get up, you rotten beggars, you’ve ten more to-day!”
’Twould make a monkey cough to see our way o’ doin’
things—
Lieutenants takin’ companies an’ captains takin’ wings,
An’ Lances actin’ Sergeants—eight file to obey—
For we’ve lots o’ quick promotion on ten deaths a day!
Identify the poet.
Q 3
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8. A 3
Rudyard Kipling
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9. Ishita Das
Q 4
a) FITB the name of the Author of this famous
book published in 1947
b) Name the location that faced the outbreak of
the fictional bubonic plague, as per this book ?
The author was born there.
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10. Ishita Das
A 4
a) Albert Camus
b) Oran, French Algeria
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11. Q 5
In 1918, when an eminent Indian Public figure was hit
by the Spanish Flu, the PrajaBandhu magazine wrote
“X’s Life does not belong to him, it belongs to India” in
order to pressurize all the doctors to provide care and
support.
Who was this eminent personality who recuperated
from the Flu , but lost his daughter-in-law and
grandson due to the Epidemic.
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12. A 5
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13. Q 6
Dr Ashoke Gupta, residing at a town called Chandipur,
detects contamination of the holy water “Charanamrit”
at the local temple and alerts public about it. His
brother, the mayor of the town views this as a threat to
the temple revenue and castigates and ostracizes him.
He is termed as “Ganashatru”. After a few days, Jaundice
creates havoc in the City.
A) Name the famous Indian director of this movie and
B) the 1882 play which this movie was inspired by.
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14. A 6
A) Satyajit Ray
B) Henrik Ibsen (1882) An Enemy of the People
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15. Q 7
The concept of transfer of virus by an inanimate
object, when touched and retouched was first
observed by Italian Scholar Girolamo Fracastoro in
his medical treatise published in 1546.
A 2011 American thriller film directed by Steven
Soderbergh showed that an inanimate object, called
Fomite when exposed to infectious agents (such as
bacteria, fungi or virus) can pick up the virus and
when touched again, can transfer disease to a new
host.
Name this movie which became popular in lockdown
time due to uncanny parallels to the present
situation.
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16. Q 7
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17. Q 8
Nicholas Makin's mother Aileen owns a property along
the Park Street, across Vale Road road in Bristol which
was for its sale. Each house on the street is worth
£300,000.
On 11th Dec 2020, people started climbing over the
house while the Makin family slept, which was a
security threat. Instead of realising cash from sale, the
family actually spent money to put perspex over the
wall to protect it and also installed a security alarm.
What was the event that perplexed the family ?
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18. Q 8
Banksy’s artwork “Aachoo” on the Wall
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19. An 1883 story in the Janesville Gazette about action of
a policeman led to coinage of the term. The term was
used again by US activist Ralph Nader in early 1970s.
The football referees act as the agents to detect any
issues in the game , justifying the coinage.
What is this term attributed to Dr. Li Wanling of a
central hospital who succumbed to the virus in
Feb 2020 ?
Q 9
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20. Whistleblower
A 9
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21. Tangled (2010) was an animation movie made by
Walt Disney pictures based on Grimms Brothers’
popular fairy tale Rapunzel . In this movie, princess
Rapunzel was kept away from her biological parents
in a tower by Mother Gothel for 18 years. This movie
became popular post Corona outbreak on two
counts.
a) What was the name of Rapunzel’s kingdom
b) The was the 18 year detention compared to ?
Q 10
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22. a) Corona
b) Quarantine as she was kept away
from “Corona”
A 10
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23. Ishita Das
Q 11
In the 37th Edition of Asterix, titled “ Asterix and
The Chariot Race”, Asterix and his friend Obelix
participate in a chariot race across Italy organised
by Caesar. They compete against a masked Roman
villain with a reputation of stopping at nothing to
win.
Published in 2017, this adventure gained uncanny
popularity in 2019 at the outbreak of the Wuhan
cases.
a) What was the name of the Roman General ?
b) Who was his associate? Ishita Das

24. a) Coronavirus
b) Bacillus
A 11
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25. A series of such public awareness
messages was released in wake of
the Pandemic in India.
Which entity/organisation was the
propagator of this message ?
Q 12
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26. A 12
Indian Railways
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27. Ishita Das
Q 13
“People turn to the healing tree when medicine has
reached its limits, and when science has let them down.”
Sick people in northern France occasionally leave
garments in healing trees or “arbres à loques” in the
hope of a cure, following a tradition that persists since
pre-Roman times. Known as rag trees in Ireland, one of
several other countries where the practice survives, the
arbres à loques show pagan and Christian influences.
What was the recent change in 2020 noticed by the locals
at the healing tree at Hasnon, South East of Lille, France,
in terms of what was hung ?

28. Ishita Das
A 13
People hung Covid19 masks in order to
heal the virulence.

29. Q 14
Drive in fast food, drive-thru liquor stores and even drive-
through coronavirus tests are some things you can do from the
comfort and safety of your car in the middle of a pandemic.
Toronto's Lighthouse Immersive Arts invited viewers to
experience the art of a very famous post-impressionist artist
safely from their cars as a drive-in art exhibit, using
multimedia, directed by Italian film producer Massimilano
Siccardi in 2020. The exhibit opens again from today 23rd Jan
2021.
a) What was this drive-in initiative called, named on the
artist whose work was displayed ?
b) Name the artist as well
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30. A 14
a)“Gogh by Car”
b)Vincent Van Gogh
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31. Ishita Das
Q 15
Observing the plight of the stranded migrant
workers due to the first phase of lockdown in India,
the government provided emergency trains called
Shramik Specials, to transport them to their natives.
A report by Business standard in Dec 2020 actually
shows that these trains, which had no screening for
boarders, and no social distancing actually
transported the virus through infected migrants to
distant villages.
What was the epithet attributed to the Shramik
Special trains as per this Business Standard
report ?

32. Ishita Das
A 15
Virus Trains

33. Q 16*
Connect to a medicine/drug that is blanked out in the tablet
packet
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34. Q 16
Hydroxycholoroquine
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35. Q 17*
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore incubated a Start-up
which has published its study reporting its heat tolerant
coronavirus vaccine candidate.
According to the co-founders of this Start-up Dr. Raghavan
Varadarajan and Gautham Nadig, the vaccine can be stored
at 37°C for over a month without losing its ability to fight the
virus thereby eliminating the need for a cold chain.
Name this Start-up whose vaccine is already in a pre-clinical
stage
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36. A 17
Mynvax
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37. Q 18
This creation of Bangalore based company Invento
Robotics, proved very useful in the Pandemic.
A tablet attached to it’s chest allowed patients to see
and interact with their loved ones, who were socially
distanced as well as medical staff unable to access the
wards.
On a previous occasion this humanoid Robot also
befriended Ivanka Trump and PM Modi.
Name this friendly Robot whose nomenclature has a
reference to the aired monologues by the PM.
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38. Q 18
Mitra
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39. Ishita Das
Q 19
"The antibodies against the infection build up in a
human being only after a specific number of days
pass after the second dose of the vaccine is taken.
This is a two-dose vaccine. The minister in
question has taken only one dose of the vaccine,"
the ministry had said in a statement.
Identify this Haryana minister who volunteered for
the Bharat Biotech Covaxin on Dec 5th and got
affected by Corona subsequently , an incident
which was termed by twitterati as “Coronation”.

40. Ishita Das
Q 19
Anil Vij

41. Q 20 *
Herman Cain was an American businessman who
succumbed due to Covid related complications in July
2020. He opposed Bill Clinton’s Health care reforms,
Barack Obama’s economic policies, airing his
conservative views on his Atlanta-based radio talk
show (2008–11) and through appearances on Fox
News, thus being a spokesperson of an important
movement of the times.
Identify the movement Cain supported (three letter
acronym) and what did the acronym stand for.
The acronym reminds you of an incident during the
18th century that lead to formation of the United
States of America.
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42. A 20
TEA party movement
Tax
Enough
Already
Clue was Boston TEA party 1773
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