Lone Wolf Quiz conducted by UNESQUO BIT Mesra

1. UNESQUO
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LONE WOLF QUIZ
Prelims Answers

2. POINTERS
• This is a quiz strictly for lone wolves.
• Write your name, your Team name and Pantheon ID (for registered
teams) in the sheet.
• There are 20 questions in total.
• 5 questions are star marked, which act as tie breakers.
• Refrain from helping other teams and do not use your cell phones.

3. QUESTION 1
• This 18 year old who led India to U19 World Cup win in February
became the youngest Indian to score a century on Test debut.
He is the only Indian other than Sachin Tendulkar to score a hundred
before turning 19.

4. …and the answer is
Prithvi Shaw

5. QUESTION 2
• While the scandal-ridden Swedish Academy searches its soul after
the cancellation of this year’s Nobel prize for literature, a replacement award
set up by a host of Swedish cultural figures has unveiled a shortlist that
includes British fantasy novelist Neil Gaiman and Japanese literary
superstar X.
X, frequently a frontrunner for the Nobel prize for literature, is one of the
most celebrated authors and translators whose work fuses pop culture
with a fierce magic realism.

6. …and the answer is
Haruki Murakami

7. QUESTION 3
• This television personality has been named the Most Dangerous
Celebrity to search for online in the UK in 2018 by McAfee.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell was ranked second.

8. …and the answer is
Kim Kardashian

9. QUESTION 4
• Give context behind this tweet and the person who has been tagged.

10. …and the answer is

11. QUESTION 5
• In 2016, it was 'Origins', set in Egypt.
In 2015, it was 'Syndicate', set in Victorian era London.
In 2014, it was 'Rogue', set in the 18th century.
Scheduled for worldwide release on October 5, 2018, what is the next
iteration, set in ancient Greece?

12. …and the answer is
Odyssey

13. QUESTION 6
• Who joined Marie Curie and Maria Goeppert Mayer as only the
third woman to win the Nobel prize for Physics in 2018.
She won the prize for her work in the field of LASERs.

14. …and the answer is
Donna Strickland

15. QUESTION 7
• Famous first lines of which novel?
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it
was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the
season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of
despair.”

16. …and the answer is
A Tale of Two Cities

17. QUESTION 8
• If you landed at Swami Vivekananda Airport, which Indian city
would you have landed at?

18. …and the answer is
Raipur

19. QUESTION 9
• Music Group X have broken Taylor Swift‘s YouTube record for most-
watched video over 24 hours.
Swift previously set the record when she returned last year with her
single ‘Look What You Made Me Do’. The video racked up 43.2 million
views in one day.
• The band also came into the news recently when they spoke at the
United Nations on youth issues.

20. …and the answer is
BTS

21. QUESTION 10
• Ranked 5th in Fortune’s list of ‘Most Powerful Women in business
outside the U.S’ in 2017, this powerhouse of a woman recently
stepped down as the CEO of ICICI Bank.
Id her.

22. …and the answer is
Chanda Kochhar

23. *QUESTION 11
• A referendum in this Balkan nation last week sought voter support for
changing its name to X. Greece had agreed to drop longstanding
objections to this neighboring country joining NATO and eventually
becoming a member of the European Union, if the new name was
approved.
• The proposal ultimately failed on a constitutional ground because the
turnout of eligible voters was not over 50 percent, according to
election commission.
• ID the country and the proposed new name

24. …and the answer is
Macedonia becoming North Macedonia

25. QUESTION 12
• Who is depicted here in this controversial cartoon?
Also give the context.

26. …and the answer is
Serena Williams and the 2018 US Open
Finals fiasco with the umpire

27. QUESTION 13
• Which Indian track and field athlete won Gold Medals for Javelin
Throw at both the 2018 Commonwealth Games as well as the 2018
Asian Games, where he also broke the national record for India.

28. …and the answer is
Neeraj Chopra

29. QUESTION 14
• X is a Hindu pilgrimage centre located at the Periyar Tiger Reserve in
the Western Ghat mountain ranges of Pathanamthitta
District, Perunad grama panchayat in the state of Kerala. It is one of
the largest annual pilgrimages in the world with an estimated 45–50
million devotees visiting every year.
• Image in next slide

31. …and the answer is
Sabarimala

32. QUESTION 15
• The film premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film
Festival (TIFF). More significantly, the film grabbed the Best Feature
Film ‘Swarna Kamal’ award at the 65th National Film Awards,
which were declared at New Delhi on 13 April 2018. It also won
awards in three other categories: Best Child Artist, Best Location
Sound Recordist and Best Editing.

33. …and the answer is
Village Rockstars

34. QUESTION 16
• What is this Amul topical about?

35. …and the answer is
Rafale deal

36. QUESTION 17
• Which FIFA award did Mohammed Salah win in 2018 defeating the
likes of Christiano Ronaldo and Giorgian De Arrascaeta?

37. …and the answer is
FIFA Puskas Award for Best Goal

38. QUESTION 18
• Controversial ad by which famous brand?

39. …and the answer is
Nike

40. QUESTION 19
• The X and the Y are both ancient temples. While the X was built in
Rome to celebrate all the Roman gods, the Y was built in Ancient
Greece for the goddess Athena. The Y pre-dates the X by about six
centuries; it was built around 447-438 BCE, while the X was built in
126 CE.
Both the names X and Y are very similar and can easily confuse
someone at first sight.
Give both X and Y.

41. …and the answer is
X- Pantheon Y-Parthenon

42. QUESTION 20
• First proposed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, by what two word
term from pop culture was the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a
proposed defense system against possible missile attacks partly based
in space, commonly known?

43. …and the answer is
Star Wars

44. Answers
1. Prithvi Shaw *11. Macedonia and North Macedonia
2. Haruki Murakami 12. Serena Williams and 2018 US Open finals
3. Kim Kardashian 13. Neeraj Chopra
*4. J.K.Rowling, Nagini *14. Sabarimala
5. Odyssey, Assasins Creed 15. Village Rockstars
6. Donna Strickland 16. Rafale Deal
7. A Tale of Two Cities 17. FIFA Puskas award for Best Goal
8. Raipur 18. Nike
9. BTS *19. X is Pantheon and Y is Parthenon
10. Chanda Kochhar 20. Star Wars