BCQC Fundraiser: ELIMS General Open Quiz by Suraj Menon

Magnum Dopus
a.k.a
One Last Quiz (Again!)
Elims –Answers

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Magnum Dopus (One Last Quiz, Again!!) – BCQC Fundraiser Series – July 21
Widely attributed to Dileep Sardesai, the term ______ ________ is used in
Mumbai circles to refer to a batsman continuously playing and missing.
The one-step forward, one-step back movement is thought to have
reminded Sardesai of the rhythmic movements of a large group of people
on an annual journey every year in the second half of Jyestha.
What rhythmic chant heard once a year in Pune fills in the blank?
1

Gyanba Tukaram
Uttered by the Warkaris during the annual Wari to Pandharpur every year

Thanks to the guy shown in the picture,
another person would eventually spend
the next four years with a tiny piece of
paper that read 46.7 propped up next to
the pictures of his gods.
Who was the other person?
2

Milkha Singh
The guy in the pic is Charlie Jenkins Sr. who won gold at Melbourne 56 in the 400m

This is the logo for a Dutch syndicate
called GVR - that uses injection molding
instead of the current standard and
advanced bio-degradable materials
sourced from grain instead of the
standard material.
What products are they trying to offer
sustainable alternatives to? (generic
common noun, one- or two-word
answers will do)
3

Vinyl Records
(Accept Gramophone Records/LPs/ Records etc.)

In mid-2020 city authorities decided to take advantage of the pandemic to
redesign the wind railings for a landmark structure in the city.
The end result was that the altered wind-flow patterns have resulted in a
weird persistent sound heard as far as 30 miles away (clip follows). With
local residents describing it variously as a “ghostly harmonica”, “a
wheezing kazoo” and DJs based in the city creating mix tapes etc.
What landmark was redesigned leading to this sound?
4
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The creator originally wanted to just name this after the central character.
However, he was overruled by a committee of newspaper editors, who
thought their proposed alternative title a way of identifying the work as a
‘predictably familiar, bite sized and endlessly repeatable treat’
What title did the committee of editors choose?
5

Identify the person speaking – talking about how a very famous scene
was created
6
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Sriram Raghavan
Describing how they shot the train sequence with Neil Nitin Mukesh killing Daya in Johnny Gaddar

This memorial plaque – at one of the oldest
institutions of its kind in the Western world
– commemorates a 19th century invention.
The inventor originally wanted to use the
technical term outlined here – before
settling on a word deriving from the Greek
for “breast/chest” to describe it.
What did he invent?
7

The Stethoscope
From Stethos = breast

Pictured is the logo for a non-profit
founded by a person, whose name is
synonymous with this recreational
activity – that has built over 600
facilities worldwide including in
regions affected by conflict and
inner-city neighborhoods in the US.
What facilities do they set up/ who is
the person?
8

The Skatepark Project
Formerly the Tony Hawk Foundation

Contrary to popular belief, this took place over multiple days at sites like
the nearby town of Colenso, the banks of the Tugela and four
encampments at Vaalkrans, Brakfontein, Twin peaks and Conical hill.
However, most commemorations today only remember X – where the
eventual losers managed to capture a few artillery pieces
What is X that might be familiar to us even today for non-military
reasons?
9

When the Spanish explorers set foot in Central America, they saw the
native inhabitants holding a particular stone to their sides to cure
ailments of the spleen and kidney. The explorer therefore named it
‘Piedra de Ijada’ or ‘stone of the flank/side’
The name of what precious stone (that you would commonly associate
with another nation on the other side of the world) is derived from the
blanked-out term?
10

This show (and the book it is based on) get their name from a phrase that
was used to ‘indicate that the ‘choicest cuts of meat’ were often
unaffordable to African Americans, those African Americans that did
manage to get access to these were said to be living “___ __ ___ ___”
What four-word phrase is the title of the show?
11
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High on the Hog
That is Jessica Harris on whose book the show is based

According to the founder of the company, the biggest reason for their
success was his faith – which involved an annual pilgrimage to the ______
des Massiabelle at Lourdes.
The blank in the name of this site was also incorporated into their best-
selling product’s name and the appearance of the product was heavily
influenced by the landscape of the pilgrimage site.
What product?
12

This portion of the landscape is important

Pictured on the next slide is a still from a Scooby Doo episode. The circled
individual is a recurring character – who is often accused by the gang’s
Fred of being guilty of the crime within the episode – he is frequently
shown to be at/near the scene of the crime and with potential motive
before eventually being proven innocent – with the later episodes turning
this premise into a sort of running gag.
What two-word name does the character have as a result?
13

Sometime in 2020, the CEO of the National Music Publisher’s Association
David Israelite announced that the organization would be correcting a
historic injustice.
Israelite went on to explain that the organization had recently come
across clips from a 1971 BBC interview where the person who currently
has sole credit stating that “it was merely a result of me being ‘macho’ –
because a lot of the original concept came out of her poems in Grapefruit,
and I conveniently omitted it”
What historic injustice was being corrected?
(Need the name of a person and work in the answer)
14

Yoko Ono being given a co-writing credit on Imagine

The _____ ____ __ ____ is a name
coined by Admiral Harry Harris to
refer to the long-term construction
efforts by the Chinese – involving
multiple reclamation projects to
build floating bases/ artificial
runways etc.
What four words (that involve a
reference to another famous
structure, and a material) fill in the
blanks?
15

As part of his research Dr.
Malcolm Page demonstrates
that this work was plausibly
created using a slight offset – as
confirmed by the slightly tilted
pose of the protagonist seen
here – with any impressions of
symmetry being entirely down
to the artist’s skill.
What famous work from the
19th century is he analyzing?
16

Bar at the Folies Bergère by Manet

You will hear Emma Thompson delivering a victory speech at the Golden
Globes, where she imagines what someone else (closely connected with
her win) would have sounded like if they were giving the speech. Who is
she imagining giving the speech?
17
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Jane Austen
Thompson won Best Screenplay for adapting Sense and Sensibility directed by Ang Lee and starring Kate Winslet

When this company was formed in 1916 by the merger of about 30 different
brands owned by US Rubber – they wanted to name it from the Latin word
for ‘feet’. Since the trademark wasn’t available, the company ended up
choosing a name – one letter different from the original choice, that is now
often used as a generic term for the products themselves ala Xerox.
What was the name that was finally chosen for the company?
18

Roughly, around two decades ago (FROM TODAY), a couple of people
spent a few weeks at this company’s facilities undergoing training to
make their portrayals more realistic. What project was this being done
for?
19

Brad Pitt and Edward Norton learnt to make
soap at Auntie Godmothers for Fight Club

A syzygy is an astrological phenomenon that occurs when two or more
bodies are in a straight-line – most often used to refer to an arrangement
of the sun, moon and earth.
Ahead of one such syzygy on the 30th of March this year, a team of
workers from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was roped in to work around
the clock to ensure that they could capitalize on the ‘syzygy’ – with that
day representing what many were describing as ‘the best and last chance
to do something’
What was made possible by the syzygy occurring?
20

Freeing the Ever Given in the Suez Canal
Syzygies have a disproportionate impact on tidal volumes

Which frequent collaborator of the singer directed this video?
What was the look and feel for the video based on? (an association that
you might have come across last year as well)
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The _______ Bhajanavali was a catalogue of 253 devotional pieces that
were played daily at this place. One of the essential criteria was that
classical big-wigs were famously excluded, as the person in-charge felt
that they lacked mass appeal, preferring instead to have the pieces
recorded by artistes with greater reach and mass appeal
Only two exceptions were ever made to this rule of not having big
classical names on the playlist – if one was Narayan Khare, who was a
disciple of V D Paluskar, who was the other person?
At what specific location was the Bhajanavali performed daily?
22

M S Subbalakshmi
Sabarmati Ashram

The Belmond Group operates two versions on the same route – one a day
train and the other a night journey between a major city and a tiny town
called Arequipa. While the day train is named after a 20th century
explorer, the night train is simply called The ________ Explorer.
Given the route they operate on, both these trains are also equipped with
one additional mandatory feature in every cabin (that you would normally
associate with extreme usage on another mode of transport).
What popular tourist attraction does the Arequipa station serve?
What is the additional feature/ what objects are placed in every cabin
23

Macchu Picchu
Oxygen Cylinders/Masks
Given the high altitude, The Belmond Hiram Bingham and The Belmond Andean Explorer carry drop down oxygen cylinders
like what you see on aircraft

_____ - ______ is a series of 25 mashup artworks by a French artist that is
named for both the creators.
The paintings introduce one person’s most famous creation into slightly
eroticized scenarios in the other person’s work (some examples that I
have edited to exclude the first person’s famous creation, are shown)
The foundation (whose logo I will also show you) promptly sued the artist
alleging that the works were vulgar and defamatory.
Which two people’s names fill in the blanks/ are the subject of this mash
up series?
24

Historically this species has always had two kinds of products – the
naturally occurring ‘June bearers’ and the artificially bred ‘Ever-bearers’
which manage to fruit until October – though they are generally
perceived as being less juicy and sweet.
In June this year, the National Institute for Agricultural Botany in East
Malling, Kent came up with the ‘Malling Ace’ a variety that combines the
best of these two classes.
What are June-bearers and Ever-bearers the two chief types of?
To capitalize on what recent event did the NIAB time the announcement
of the Malling Ace’s development?
(Need one-word answers for both parts)
25

What three-word phrase would connect this relic(at the Louvre since
April 2019) and the cathedral (visual next slide) designed by Oscar
Niemeyer? Where was the relic previously stored or tell me why it was
moved?
26

Crown of Thorns - The Louvre exhibit is supposed to be an actual piece of the Crown of Thorns
that used to be at The Notre Dame Cathedral (until the fire a couple of years ago)
Niemeyer’s design with the 16 spires is meant to mimic the Crown of Thorns

On Patriot’s day this year – this franchise unveiled an alternate City
Connect edition uniform – that was meant to pay tribute to another event
in their home city (more specifically as a way of honouring something that
happened 8 years ago)
What franchise? (Name a team)
What specifically inspired the colours of the jersey? (looking for
something associated with the sporting event – naming the event won't
be enough)
27

The Boston Red Sox
The Finish Line at the Boston Marathon

Two visuals dedicated to a person
The first is located at the metro station serving the primary university in a
European capital and is a depiction of multiple 18th century voyages that
this person undertook as part of their life’s work.
The second are two exhibits in London from his collection – which are
considered the first ever examples of ‘_____ _____’, which he is credited
with inventing to make his life easier.
Whose travels does the mural commemorate?
What invention attributed to this person are the two examples of?
28

Linnaeus is widely credited as
the inventor of the Index card
The station is the Universiteit station in Stockholm
and the exhibits are Linnaeus original index cards
stored at the Linnaean society in London

Identify both the people you hear speaking in this clip dating to 1983
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What is the very obvious inspiration for this 1985 video?
Aptly, a 2013 film opens with the protagonist watching this. Name the
2013 film
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Thriller (by Michael Jackson)
Go Goa Gone

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