Moneycontrol CORONAVIRUS quiz 1

Ancient Greeks called it στέφανος, that can be translated as stéfanos. Ancient romans called it by a name which means crown. The X civica, or civic crown, was a garland of oak leaves granted by the Senate to someone whom they considered had saved the lives of fellow Roman citizens in battle. The civic crown also appears on the reverse of Augustan medallions. Its presence was a means of negotiating Augustus's unprecedented position. The origin of what word, which also refers to the outer atmosphere of the sun, are we describing here ?

• A Aureole
• B Wreath
• C Corona
• D Tiara

With a total lockdown in China, Alibaba has initiated a new initiative to entice customers who have no way to check the quality of the fruits and vegetables they are buying of its platform TaoBao. What is this new initiative which promises to keep China's produce flowing from farm to Table?

• A Alibaba Live
• B JD Live
• C Baidu Live
• D Tao Bao Live

While most companies are floundering, the shares of Zoom a company founded by Eric Yuan, has doubled over the last one month. So what does Zoom specialize in?

• A Messenger and Meetings app
• B Mail App
• C Notes Taking App
• D VPN App

Approximately 102 years ago, India suffered its last major pandemic. The Spanish flu, killed about 100 million people globally and about 5% of the total Indian population (about 17 million people). It arrived in India via the ports of a city in May 1918. A contemporary report quotes J.A. Turner, then health officer of the city, who said the epidemic "came to the city like a thief in the night". How was Spanish flu known locally in India based on the city it was first found in?

• A Kolkata Flu
• B Bombay Flu
• C Madras Flu
• D Delhi Flu

The Drug controller general of India has allowed restricted use of Kaletra the combination of medications lopinavir and ritonavir, for treating those affected by novel coronavirus after the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) sought an emergency approval for the same. Use of Kaletra was allowed based on the fact that previous studies suggested Kaletra, as effective in preventing SARS from maturing and replicating. It has already achieved good results in China and Japan in curing Coronavirus. What is Lopinavir and Ritonavir originally used for?

• A HIV
• B Cancer
• C TB
• D Common Cold

Which popular Song by Baha Men was made into a Meme, when news spread out about the confirmation that the World Health Organization had put regarding the fact that there is no evidence that Dogs can help spread Coronavirus? WHO has since rescinded on that statement though

• A Like my dog
• B Who is it
• C Lucky dog
• D Who let the dogs out

The X Act is an act of Parliament of India which was established to ensure the delivery of certain commodities or products, the supply of which if obstructed owing to hoarding or black-marketing would affect the normal life of the people. This includes foodstuff, drugs, fuel (petroleum products) etc. What are they called?

• A Important Goods
• B Essential Goods
• C Essential Commodities
• D Important Commodities

These are a series of Hotels opened up in collaboration with the Pestana group. They are present in Lisbon, Marakkech and Madeira. Recently as a temporary measure to counter Coronavirus the owner of these hotels has agreed to convert them into Hospitals to allow for isolation and treatment of patients. Who is this benevolent owner?

• A Lionel Messi
• B Cristiano Ronaldo
• C Paul Pogba
• D David Beckham

NIOSH is the United States federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness. One of the ratings given by Niosh has off late been in the news, which one?

• A N95
• B P43
• C N97
• D W86

This is a law which was first enacted in 1897 to tackle bubonic plague in Bombay state in former British India. The law is meant for containment of epidemics by providing special powers that are required for the implementation of containment measures to control the spread of the disease. It has recently been invoked in India to prevent the spread of Coronavirus

• A Pandemic Act 1897
• B Serious diseases Act 1897
• C Epidemic Diseases Act 1897
• D Viral diseases Act 1897

This behavior , which has led to an artificial shortage across the World was rightly summed up in a video by an agency called "The Feed" where the lead character sums up his intentions as "I am gonna Kick your ass and then I am gonna wipe mine" . What artificial shortage which in Aussie Slang is called a Dunny roll are we describing?

• A Cream Roll Shortage
• B Toilet paper shortage
• C Sand Paper Shortage
• D Diaper Shortage

A new fund named as "COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator" has been launched by X, Welcome and Mastercard. The $125 Million fund has been launched to accelerate technologies to fight against the COVID-19 epidemic. ID X, the well-known philanthropic entity.

• A Bill and Melinda Gates foundation
• B Jack Ma Foundation
• C Infosys Foundation
• D LVMH Foundation

The term describes any inanimate object that, when contaminated with or exposed to infectious agents such as pathogenic bacteria, viruses or fungi), can transfer disease to a new host. For humans, skin cells, hair, clothing, and bedding are common hospital sources of contamination of these objects. It has been identified as one of the major sources of spread of Coronavirus. The Italian scholar and physician Girolamo Fracastoro appears to have first used the Latin word Y meaning "tinder", in this sense in his essay on contagion, De Contagione et Contagiosis Morbis,published in 1546: "By Y I mean clothes, wooden objects, and things of that sort, which though not themselves corrupted can, nevertheless, preserve the original germs of the contagion and infect by means of these

• A Vector
• B Fomite
• C Carrier
• D Pathogen

One of the outcomes of the Coronavirus situation, has been that the medical system in most countries got overwhelmed with the number of patients who required hospitalization and intensive care . In such a situation it was the doctors and the nurses who had to take a call on which patient gets to have the Intensive care and which does not based on the probability of survival. What is such a sorting of and allocation of treatment to patients and especially battle and disaster victims according to a system of priorities designed to maximize the number of survivors called?

• A Forage
• B Decision Tree
• C Triage
• D Ethical Quandary

Which billionaire has pledged to donate two million protective masks for distribution across Europe, with a first consignment arriving in Belgium late on Friday. He has also said he will donate 500,000 coronavirus testing kits and one million masks to the United States, while urging international cooperation to fight the health crisis.

• A Jack Ma
• B Pony Ma
• C Li Ka Shing
• D Zhang Yiming

. In the wake of spurt in cases of coronavirus pandemic in the country, the Ministry of Home Affairs on Saturday decided to treat Covid-19 as a X. The move would enable the states to spend a larger chunk of funds from the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) to fight the pandemic. What is X?

• A Notified disaster
• B Gentrified Disaster
• C Unmitigated Disaster
• D Established Disaster

This is a predominantly low-income, mixed-use residential, commercial, and semi-industrial neighborhood in northeastern Beirut. The neighborhood lies east of the Port of Beirut, which also encircles it from the north, west of the Beirut River and north of the Charles Helou highway andthe Achrafieh district of Beirut. The neighborhood gets its name because it was the location where a lazaretto for travellers was built at the request of Ibrahim Pasha, the son of Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Governor of Egypt, who controlled Syria and Beirut in 1831. It was brought into limelight when on January 18, 1976 there was a massacre of about 1500 residents during the Lebanese civil war Name it

• A Al Katrina
• B Le Quarantine
• C Al Karantina
• D Il Quaranina

The name came from the city's historical origin from the conglomeration of Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang. It lies in the eastern Jianghan Plain, on the confluence of the Yangtze River and its largest tributary, the Han River, and is known as "Nine Provinces'. Thoroughfare" (九省通衢). What are we talking about

• A Fushan
• B Wuhan
• C Shandong
• D Pudong

This was a movie based on Richard Prestons 1992, New Yorker nonfiction article "Crisis in the Hot Zone". Its lead star Dustin Hoffmann had insisted that poet Maya Angelou be used to make the ending less depressing. (Little of her work is said to have been used). The movie was so effective that at an afterparty at Chasen's, one guest was overheard to remark: "After seeing a movie like this, you kinda don't want to eat something that somebody else has touched." Which Movie?

• A Contagion
• B Outbreak
• C Ebola
• D Pandemic

This region in Europe has given the name to a specific profession whose traditional symbol is denoted by 3 balls suspended from a bar. Name the profession and the region in news recently

• A Lombardy, Pawnbroker
• B Milan, Haberdasher
• C Turin, Farmer
• D Rome, Gladiator