This document contains a Pokéquiz with 23 multiple choice questions about Pokémon and related topics. The questions cover subjects like Easter Island, saints, martial arts, famous sharpshooters, colors, mythology, natural phenomena, architecture, clowns, flowers, magic tricks, cats, fishing, idioms, insects, and more. Each question is followed by potential multiple choice answers to identify or explain the topic being asked about.

1. Pokéquiz
Harish Krishna V

2. Q1
• Devaneya Pavanar was a Tamil activist,
etymologist and author of over 35 books.
• He strongly believed that Tamil was a protoworld language (perhaps the oldest language
of the world) and a language from which
several modern languages are derived from.

3. Q1
ழ In his books, he details a timeline of human
evolution and how civilisation and language
came from the homo dravida of Lemuria.
• According to him, there was a lost Tamil
culture on ______ ______, which had an
advanced civilisation sometime around 20000
BC.
• The place was discovered on 5th April 1722, a
Sunday, by a Dutch navigator.
• Identify this UNESCO World Heritage site
protected within the Rapa Nui National Park.

4. Easter Island
• Nosepass and Probopass are take-offs on
Easter Island moai.
It was discovered on Easter
Sunday.

5. Q2
• This church in Vatican City (fleetingly mentioned
in Angels and Demons) is dedicated to the saint
depicted in the painting.

6. • The saint also lends her to this ship.
• Identify the saint. Why is she venerated?

7. Saint Anne
• Mother of the Virgin Mary and hence
grandmother of Jesus Christ.
• The ship is SS Anne.

8. Q3
• Earlier, certificates were used to denote a Dan
rank. Then, this man came along and he
decided to use obis to denote the Dan rank.
• What trainer class in Pokémon got its name
from this innovation of this person?

9. Black Belt
• Kanō Jigorō also founded Judo

10. Q4
• This American Sharpshooter and exhibition
shooter, America’s first female superstar
because of the show Buffalo Bill's Wild West
which starred her, was very popular for a
certain trick she performed which involved
repeatedly splitting a playing card, edge-on,
and putting several more holes in it before it
could touch the ground, while using a .22
caliber rifle, at 90 feet.

11. • The theatre business began referring to
complimentary tickets with the name of the
shooter. Such tickets traditionally have holes
punched into them (to prevent them from being
resold), reminiscent of the playing cards she shot
through during her sharpshooting act.
• These two antagonists are named after her.
• Identify.

13. Annie Oakley
• The duo are called Annie and Oakley.

14. Q5
• Several things in Pokémon are named after
this colour.
• For example, the German, French and Italian
version of Cerulean city is a reference to this
colour.
• Halfway between cyan and blue, this colour is
typically used to describe the colour of the sky
on a clear summer’s day.

15. Q5
• The colour gets its name from the name of
this semi precious mineral that has been
prized since antiquity for its intense color.
• Identify.

16. Azure

17. Q6
• Hebrew for “unshaped form” , this word is
used today as a metaphor for a brainless lunk
or entity who serves man under controlled
conditions but is hostile to him under others.
• Adam was initially created as one of these.
• It is said that Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the
16th century rabbi of Prague created one of
these to protect the Prague ghetto.
• Identify.

18. Golem

19. Q7
• The volcano on Cinnabar island is most likely a
______ type volcano.
• This type of volcano, which gets its name from
their shape, is formed by effusive highly fluid
lava which accumulate in sheets giving its
distinctive shape.
• The Mauna Kea is an example of this type of
volcano.
• Identify.

21. Shield Volcano

22. Q8
• This forest in the Unova region is named after
the children’s toy in the image.
• Initially known as the whirligig, this toy was
invented in the 19th century by Brittany
Penland though there similar devices right
from around 500 BC.
• The spiral galaxy in the image is also named
after the toy.
• Identify the toy.

24. Pinwheel

25. Q9
• When Manaphy hatched, the first thing it saw
was May and hence thought of her as its
mother.

26. • Known as filial imprinting, this part of
pschology was studied extensively and made
popular by this ethologist who won the 1973
Nobel in medicine.
• Identify him.

27. Konrad Lorenz
• Lorenz found that the geese could also imprint
on inanimate objects. In one experiment, they
followed a box placed on a model train in
circles around the track.

28. Q10
• It was the legendary filmmaker D.W. Griffith
who first used this three-word phrase.
• One day, frustrated on set and running out of
time, Griffith started barking orders to the
assistants and the technicians around him.
• The phrase probably became popular because
of its simplicity, how it rolls off the tongue,
and how it captures the essence the craft with
brevity.

29. Q10
• At least two episode titles are a play on this
three-word phrase. The two episodes feature
these two Pokémon.
• Identify the phrase.

30. Lights, Camera, Action
o The two episodes are
• Lights, Camera, Quacktion
• Lights, Camerupt , Action

31. Q11
• This normal type move has the Pokémon
waggling a finger which stimulates its brain
into using any move at random.

32. Q11
• This move gets its name from this device that
produces regular, metrical ticks and is used by
musicians to maintain a constant tempo.
• Identify.

33. Metronome
• This thing is a
talanome app,
pretty useful
for Carnatic
musicians

34. Q12
• This man served under King Louis XIV as a
captain. Also the unpopular governor of Lille,
he longed to return to battle, which he did
during the Franco-Dutch War.
• He was the inspiration for three novels which
give a fictionalized account of his life, from his
humble beginnings in Gascony to his death as
a marshal of France in the Siege of Maastricht
in 1673.

35. Q12
• The second and third novels are Twenty Years
After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten
Years Later.
• What was the first novel in the series?

36. The Three Muskateers
• The first book of the d'Artagnan Romances by
Alexandre Dumas, père.
• Keldeo is modeled on Comte d'Artagnan with
the other three legendary musketeers
representing Porthos, Athos and Aramis.

37. Q13
• What phenomenon, a corollary of a certain
Foster’s rule, connects these animals?

39. Island Gigantism
• The animals are Hassat’s eagle, Moa bird (New
Zealand)
• Kakapo (New Zealand)
• Dodo (Mauritius)
• Giant tortoise (Galapagos islands)
• Komodo dragon (Timor)
• Elephant bird (Madagascar)

40. • The episode Island of the Giant Pokémon is
probably a nod to this phenomenon.
though the Pokémon in the episode are mechanical

41. Q14
• This is the anime-exclusive Space-Time Tower
found near Alamos Town.
Which incomplete magnum opus, designed by
the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, served as
the inspiration for the appearance of the
tower?

42. Q14

43. Sagrada Família
•
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Barcelona.

44. Q15
• This trainer class alludes to these clowns who
were an integral part of several pantomimes.
• The name and inspiration for them seems to
have come from classical Sufi masters who
were known to wear a pieced robe made of a
patchwork of coloured fabric.

45. Q15
• A doctor in the world of comics gets his/her
nickname from the name given to these
jesters. This character appears in the top 50 in
IGN’s Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time.
• Identify the name given to these clowns.

46. Harlequin

47. • The fictional character is Dr. Harleen Frances
Quinzel, M.D or Harley Quinn.

48. Q16
• The country has three national flowers.
• Two of them are Jasminum sambac and
Phalaenopsis amabilis
•

49. Q16
• The third was discovered by an assistant of
this naturalist during an expedition. The genus
is named after the leader of the expedition
while the species after this man.
• Identify the flower.

50. Rafflesia arnoldii
• Named after Sir Thomas Raffles and Dr. Joseph
Arnold, this is a national flower of Indonesia.
• Gloom and Vileplume are inspired by this.

51. Q17
• The Pokédex entry for Venipede in Pokémon
White speaks about its ability to inject a very
potent poison that can paralyze even birds.
• Many millipedes also secrete a poisonous
substance from their exoskeleton but this
usually is not effective against bigger animals.
• Now, why do Cappuchin monkeys and some
lemurs deliberately irritate millipedes?

52. Q17

53. To use the poison as mosquito repellent
• The poison, containing benzoquinones and
cynide is very effective against insects.
• This is also used to kill the parasites that
appear just after monsoon, the time when
millipedes are also abounding.
•
Images from this Animal Planet video : http://animal.discovery.com/tvshows/other/videos/fooled-by-nature-medicinal-millipedes.htm

54. Q18
• Once upon a time, there was a priest who
maintained a temple in Gotokuji, west of
Tokyo. The priest kept a cat named Tama, and
though he was very poor, he would often
share his food with it.
• One day, though, the priest found that there
was no food left, and in his hunger, he
shouted at the cat: "I've always fed you in
spite of my poverty, so couldn't you do
something for this temple for once?" The cat
got up and wandered out of the temple.

55. • As it happened, the samurai lord of the
district, Ii Naotaka, was out riding near the
temple at the time. It started to rain heavily,
prompting him to take shelter beneath a tree.
He then noticed Tama sitting in front of the
temple, doing something. The cat's behavior
puzzled him, and so he approached Tama with
interest. As he walked, a bolt of lighting struck
the tree he had been underneath and brought
it crashing down. Tama had saved his life.

56. Q18
• The samurai picked up Tama and rushed into the
temple. When he discovered that the priest was
the owner of the lucky cat, he was filled with
gratitude. Gotokuji Temple was adopted as his
family temple, and went from being dilapidated
to a place of splendor. The priest would never go
hungry again, and Tama lived a life of luxury.
• When Tama died, he was buried with great
ceremony, and a shrine to the cat was erected in
the temple grounds.
• This is one of the many origins of which
ubiquitous cultural symbol of Japan?

57. Maneki-neko (beckoning cat)
• Meowth is largely based on maneki neko.
• The oval emblem on Meowth's head is a
koban. Maneko-neko also typically hold a
koban.
Meowth's signature attack, Pay
Day involves Meowth hurling
koban at its opponent, and each
use of the move produces money
that can be picked up after battle.

58. Q19
• She was the daughter of Minos, the King of
Crete and his queen Pasiphaë.
• She was found abandoned on an island and
Dionysus rediscovered and wedded her. Her
wedding diadem was set in the heavens as the
constellation Corona.

59. Q19
• A character from an award winning
Christopher Nolan movie was named after her.
• This Pokémon is also named after her.
• Identify this character from Greek mythology.

60. Ariadne
• She aided Theseus by giving him a sword and
a ball of string to help him navigate the
labyrinth which was the prison of the
Minotaur.

61. • The Pokémon is Ariados.
• Ariadne from Inception who is recruited to
construct the various dreamscapes, which are
described as mazes.

62. Q20
• Some Arabs of Algeria were said to be excited
to rebel against French colonialists by a
section of religious leaders called Marabouts
with their good-luck amulets, futurepredicting abilities and necromancy.
• Whom did Louis-Napoleon, emperor of
France, send to Algeria in 1856 to dissolve the
excitement of the rebels and pacify the tribes?

63. Robert-Houdin, the great French
magician
• He presented an empty box (with an iron
bottom) that anyone could lift. By turning on
an electro-magnet hidden under the floor, he
made it immovable, proving that through will
power, he could make it impossible to lift for
the strongest Algerian warriors.
• He was given a certificate from the leader
Bou-Allem, who henceforth wore a red robe
symbolizing his loyalty to France.

64. • Alakazam’s Japanese name Houdin (also spelt
as Foodin) is named after him.
•
There is also the chance for Foodin to be named after Harry Houdini.

65. Q21
• Many animals have periodical life cycles i.e.
they tend to repeat their activates, the period
typically being a few years. For example, some
birds are known to return to a certain land
every year while there are some that return
only once in eight years.

66. Q21
• Cicadas usually live under the ground for a long
time and emerge en masse (so that the
probability of an individual organism being
eaten is reduced) to shed their skin and mate.
• Now, it is observed that almost always,
all species of cicadas emerge after
a gap of 13 or 17 years to molt.
• Why do cicadas have only 13
or 17 year cycles?

67. They are prime numbers
• Let's picture a cicada species that emerges
from the ground every 12 years. These would
be vulnerable to the predators that come
around every second year, plus those that
come around every third year, every fourth
year and every sixth year. There would be no
shortage of predators queuing up to devour
our 12-year cicada.

68. • But let's increase that cycle length by just one
year, and see what happens. Because 13 is a
prime number, a 13-year cycle isn't going to
regularly coincide with the cycles of predators.
Let's imagine that a 13-year cicada species
happens to emerge while a 4-year predator is
in the area. The two species won't meet again
for another 52 years.
• With such a long period of time between
meetings, the predator isn't going to be able
to reliably predict when the cicadas are due to
emerge.

69. • Nincada (middle), Ninjask (left) and Shedinja
derive heavily from the molting habits of
cicadas.

70. Q22
• This idiomatic expression is often used to
describe a situation where a person or group
accepts wholesale and uncritically an idea or
set of beliefs.
• It comes from the three essential pieces of
fishing tackle in angling.
• This classic tackle gets its name from the
equipment shown in the next slide.

72. Q22
• A pun based on this three word idiom was
used as the title of both a looney tunes
cartoon featuring Wile E. Coyote and The
Road Runner.
• The same title was used for episode 168 in the
Original Series. The episode involves around
the annual Seaking Catching Competition.

73. Hook, Line and Sinker
• The title is hook, line and stinker

74. Q23
• Antlions are a group of insects in the
Myrmeleontidae family. Typically sand-dwelling,
antlions will search for a suitable patch of sand to
dig in, and then move backwards in concentric
circles, digging a conical pit in which they lie
buried with only their heads visible.
• The walls of the pit are angled precisely so that
they will crumble when an insect that's wandered
in tries to climb out again... thus swiftly delivering
the meal to the antlion lurking at the bottom.

75. Q23
• The antlion's jaws are undoubtedly its most
prominent feature. Compared to the rest of its
body, they are huge.
• Trapinch's Pokédex entries describe an almost
identical process, involving sloped,
inescapable pits that the Pokémon waits at
the bottom of.

76. Q23
• Which creature in the Star Wars saga are
largely inspired by antlions?
• One of the largest of this creature appears in
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

77. Sarlacc
• They also have an immense, gaping maw lined
with several rows of sharp teeth.

78. Q24
• The word comes from the French for “in a
position” and “holding” ; thus the word refers
to somebody who holds a superior's position
in his or her absence.
• 19th century British writers argued that the
word be replaced by ‘steadholder’ since the
French word was allegedly hard on the tongue
for English soldiers and sailors.
• Which word?

79. Lieutenant
• The Lightning American served as a lieutenant
(Lt. Surge) and a pilot in a war, during which
Electric-type Pokémon saved his life.

80. Q25
• The FireRed pokédex entry of ponyta is “Its
body is light, and its legs are incredibly
powerful. It can clear _____ ____ in one leap.“
• The blank refers to an inselberg which the
local Pitjantjatjara tribe call it by a name that
does not mean anything in their language.

81. • A surveyor called William Gosse who sited the
landmark in 1873 decided to name it after this
Premier of South Australia.
• Since 1993, a dual naming policy was followed
with both the names separated by a ‘/’.
• Identify the UNESCO world heritage site.

82. Ayer’s Rock / Uluru

83. Spares

84. • These are Ernst Haeckel's controversial
embryo drawings. Haeckel was an advocate of
the Recapitulation theory.
• What was Haeckel trying to show?

85. ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
• During the early stages of human
development, the embryo goes through stages
reminiscent of other creatures. During very
early development, for example, we have
what appear to be tails.
• Haeckel's idea was that the human embryo, as
it develops, goes through stages resembling
ancestral forms of humans.
•
Haeckel's drawings turned out to have been deliberately fiddled in order to emphasize similarities between embryos.

86. • Mew is an ancestral form that resembles an
embryo (Mew is supposed to be the ancestor
of all Pokémon).

87. • Turtwig, Grotle and Torterra are inspired by
the idea in several Eastern Philosophies that
the Earth is supported by a turtle.

88. • Which best-seller, first published in 1988,
begins with a story about a certain old lady’s
chat with Bertrand Russell at the end of his
lecture on astronomy?
• The lady claimed that the Earth was flat and
was supported by a giant tortoise. When
asked what the tortoise was standing on, she
replied with “ it's tortoises all the way down!“,
a phrase that went on to be oft parodied.

89. A Brief History of Time

90. Pokémemes

91. Q1
• Which handheld game console is being
parodied?

92. PlayStation Portable and
PlayStation Vita

93. Q2
• Which meme, also a google Easter-egg?
• The term owes its origin to the popular RTS
game Starcraft.

94. Zerg rush

95. Q3
• Fake Pokémon battle involving whom?

96. Steve Irwin

97. Q4
• This meme has slowpoke with accompanying
text if people had heard of some piece of very
old or oversaturated information.

98. Q4
• This specific instance of the meme refers to a
certain instance when the CEO (say Y) of a
company fired someone (X).
• What is ironical is that it was X who brought in
Y into the company’s fold. "Do you want to
spend the rest of your life selling sugared
water, or do you want a chance to change the
world?“ X famously told Y, who was then the
CEO of Pepsi-Cola.
• Identify X and Y.

99. Steve Jobs and John Sculley

100. Q5
• What is this meme called?

101. Brock Obama