1 Which film, dealing with a daring rescue operation in the late ’70s, is based on CIA operative Antonio J Mendez’s book The Master of Disguise and also Joshua Berman’s Wired article titled ‘The Great Escape?’

2 The RMS Carpathia was used as a troop ship by the US towards the end of World War I and was torpedoed by a German submarine in 1918. But the ship earned acclaim for an act it performed before the war. What is it?

3 Which animal was portrayed in a particular way in an 1820 painting by Edwin Landseer that started an untrue legend in the world of rescue?

4 In the film and book Black Hawk Down, from the militia of which African country do the US Special Action Forces try to rescue the crew of two helicopters?

5 Operation Entebbe is considered the gold standard for hostage rescue missions where 256 hostages were saved and all eight hijackers killed by the elite Israeli special forces. Which international airline’s plane was hijacked in July, 1976?

6 After parting ways with the ship, the Cinque Ports, which sailor spent four years in an uninhabited valley in the Juan Fernandez archipelago before being rescued by the ship Duke?

7 Since 2004, which rock star has worked as an emergency medical technician in New York City and has been credited with saving at least two lives, including a woman, whom he revived with a defibrillator?

8 Which film star is a veteran helicopter pilot who has participated in many rescue missions, including the evacuation of a boy scout lost in Yellowstone National Park in 2001?

9 Fiction. When Sir Percy Blakeney rescued French aristocrats from the guillotine, what symbol did he leave behind on a card to taunt his enemies?

10 In 1963, the Hurst Performance company built a series of hydraulic rescue tools to assist emergency rescue personnel in the extrication of crash victims. By which three-word name are they better known?

Answers

1. Argo (2012), which received seven Oscar nominations and won in three categories

2. The Carpathia was the first rescue ship to reach the Titanic and picked up more than 700 survivors from lifeboats

3. St Bernard dogs carrying brandy casks around their necks during rescue operations. Liquor casks were never attached to rescue dogs

4. Somalia, these were troops loyal to faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who was later killed by a rival faction

5. Air France, the operation was conducted at the Entebbe airport in Uganda

6. Alexander Selkirk, his story was the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

7. David Lee Roth, lead singer of Van Halen. The group’s latest album was released in 2012

8. Harrison Ford. He regularly assists the Teton County Search and Rescue team in the US

9. A scarlet pimpernel, which is also the name of the novel written by Baroness Emma Orczy

10. Jaws of Life, a term coined by Mike Brick, one of the first to develop a single tool to perform all the functions of rescue

Joy Bhattacharjyais a quizmaster and Project Director, FIFA U-17 World Cup

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