BCQC Fundraiser: Finals General Open Quiz by Suraj Menon

Magnum Dopus
a.k.a
One Last Quiz (Again!)
Finals

THANK YOU
We have collectively raised a
total of INR 282,460
for COVID relief
(Including INR 78,593 raised this
weekend)

• 42 questions
• 30 on infinite bounce/pounce
• 4 x 3 written rs
• HANDS VISIBLE ALWAYS, pounce details to
follow
• Points will not be conserved
• The operative parts of the questions to be
answered are in bold yellow font – focus
on those – for now that is what I am
looking for w.r.t the quiz (world peace and
a government that cares would be a nice
bonus in general)

• Pounce Rules –
• We have created Whatsapp groups with
your teams added along with the QM
• Pounce there

Magnum Dopus (One Last Quiz, Again!!) – BCQC Fundraiser Series – July 21
Seen here is Sheikh Hasina in 2019 receiving the second edition of the
_______ Hero award, presented by a global philanthropic organization –
in recognition of her efforts to help Bangladesh meet Millennium
Development Goal 4 (reduction of under-five mortality).
Who was the first ever recipient in 2018 (Full name needed)?
Audience

Written 1 - #ThankYouRana
3 General questions on football
1o points each

This Hummel designed kit for Euro 2021
incorporated a motif that the creators
captured at a friendly game at the
team’s home stadium, in a bid to bring
the team and its supporters together
What is the central motif meant to
depict? (two key words needed, no
proper nouns)
W1

“Action bias” as the name suggests is when people act/ do stuff only so
that they cannot be accused of not trying. Scientists have often shown
that one sub-set of footballers are more prone to action bias than the rest
– and it is the assumption of action bias that leads to opposing players
trying out something against them.
Whatever is being tried actually has on average a 15% lower probability of
success than all other available options – with one such famous example
occurring late in the EPL this year.
What is this less-than-optimal choice that players make due to the
assumption of action bias on the opponent’s part? (One key word is
enough, not specifying if it is a proper noun – use your judgement)
W2

The logo for Sampdoria is a silhouetted
figure that represents an old sailor named
Baccicia.
The name Baccicia comes from someone
from history/myth (depending on your
belief system) who is the patron saint for
both sailors, and the city where the club
plays.
Which figure from history/myth is this a
representation of ?
W3

Teams send in your answers now

Panenkas
Goalkeeper’s being more susceptible to action bias means that they will dive, however still possible for them to
recover and save which is why Panenka’s actually have a lower success rate

John the Baptist
Baciccia is a corruption of Baptist

The pictures on the next slide are from a book titled Accidentally ___
_________ - based on content shared on the Instagram account of the
same name – the person who the account is dedicated to provided the
foreword for the book.
Whose name fills in the blanks?
Audience

The first use of this two-word phrase (now most famously associated with
other fields) was in Britain in the late 19th century, when after decades of
rallies and demonstrations in Britain, a parliamentary act of 1898 included
the ‘____________ _______’ clause – removing penalties for not following
the letter of the law.
The subject of the act continues to be relevant even today
What two-word phrase fills in the blanks? What was the subject of the
act?
1

Conscientious Objector to the Vaccination Act of 1898,
Were exempt from penalties if they got a magistrate to certify that they were acting out of (sic) good faith

These two journalists at the Centre for Natural Material Innovation in
Cambridge came up with a proposal to replace something that is a
standard for over 2 centuries with bamboo – the quick maturing of
bamboo species would result in improved sustainability outcomes and a
‘higher modulus of elasticity and a coefficient of restitution leading to a
larger than usual ‘_____-____’ that enables increased energy transfer’.
What material were they looking to replace and for what?
What two words fill in the blanks?
2

Willow for cricket bats
Sweet spot

A proto-Indian root word meaning ‘bitter’ was commonly used to refer to
crude, beer brewed in the countryside (a related word survives even today).
In the early 19th century, someone borrowed this root as the name for a
discovery from a bitter salt. A compatriot of his (more famous in another field),
some 30 years later would randomly lay into him saying that the name “is a
fossilized part of Latin speech, about as suited to the mouths of the populace as
an ichthyosauros cutlet or a dinornis marrow-bone.” – suggesting the
alternatives loam-silver and glebe-gold instead.
Who had originally named something from this PIE root meaning bitter salt?
Who was the compatriot criticizing his choice of name a few decades later
3

Explain how what you hear in the first clip led to the person shown to be
in-charge in the video (apologies for the poor quality of the video). Name
both people and tell story?
4
AVs Removed
1. Clip from Dosti – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjB61sfhojo&t=157s (op part
from 1 min onwards)
2. Clip from Teri Kasam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o55P-h-334w

RD played harmonica on multiple tracks in Dosti (1964) as a favour to Laxmikant of
Laxmikant-Pyarelal fame – RD chose Laxmikant to appear as the conductor of the
orchestra in Teri Kasam (1982) in return

In prisons, especially in Britain (and over the
past couple of decades in the US), prisoners
typically use four dots across the knuckles
to represent this phrase.
It originated in the late 1960s and made its
way to popular culture via skinheads,
football hooligans, and punk music. It is
sometimes also referred to by the
shorthand shown here
What phrase/ acronym am I talking about
(that has seen a resurgence in use over the
past two years)?
5

The first designs changed the British practical
pinafore to an apron (adding a bow to emphasize
the waist), a changed skirt shape and a ‘bobby-
sock’ as a way to make it more relatable to
Americans.
As a way of doubling down, the colour scheme
adopted used ______ blue – popularized by the
lady in the visual shown from the early 1900s.
What character?
Who is the lady in the visual?
6

Disney’s Alice in Wonderland whose look was based by Mary
Blair on Alice Roosevelt (daughter of Teddy)

It is widely believed that this practice originated from a 2006 novel titled
Ho Voglia di Te – with the author basing it on an old ritual from his time in
the military.
Just before the novel released, he actually went to the location shown and
did this himself – in case someone decided to fact-check his claim and in
his own words “civic authorities the world over have had reasons to hate
him since” (visual follows)
What practice originated with the novel?
7

At Cheltenham in Feb 2021 a horse named ‘ Shake em up, ______’ was
part of proceedings (visual follows) – with his owner (famous for his
association with another sport), being thrilled at having the most
prestigious run of his career. The horse is so named because of the
owner’s particular recollection of having a guy stand behind him for 90
mins continually yelling “Shake em up, _____” while he was employed in
London. Who is the owner?
The owner’s racing colours are a largely neutral mix of red, white and blue
– which the owner explains as his attempt to “use a bit of everything and
trying to keep everybody happy”. Why was this colour scheme chosen?
8

Harry Redknapp; Decided not to use any one club’s colours so as
not to alienate any fans

Written 2 - #ThankYouGadreandFloJo
3 General questions on food
10 points each

This wine bottle is the
recipient of numerous
design awards for its
perforated packaging – that
allows users to recreate
what specific object?
W4

Before the advent of modern tech, these devices were used for a particular
preparation. Typically made of wrought iron or high-grade metal, they were highly
suitable as they were resistant to fire and high temperatures.
What were these used to prepare? Because of their resistance to fire, what one-
word name from the animal kingdom are they given?
W5

A common feature for menus on the Juneteenth holiday is the use of the colour
red to make drinks and cocktails, serving watermelon and red velvet cake etc.
This is in commemoration of the use of two species by the people of West
Africa to make a reddish tea called bissap, that was used as a stimulant during
the passage and while working in the fields.
What flower was primarily used to make bissap?
The other species used for bissap was the ____ nut – which being a rich source
of caffeine was appropriated by Americans to make certain other products –
with the nut’s name now being used as a generic way to describe these
products. What are the nuts called/ what were these other products?
W6

The Catalan Flag or De Bandera
Which is what the wine is also called

Hibiscus
Kola-nuts (from where we get the cola in Coca Cola)

This 1951 publication details a journey
taken with a sardine vessel named The
Western Flyer undertaken in 1940s along
with his friend – the pioneering marine
biologist Edward Ricketts.
Who is the author?
What less frequently used name for the
water body was used in the title– to make
it sound more exotic?
9

John Steinbeck
The Sea of Cortes

The creators borrowed the title of what two 90s works (and in the first
case a lot of imagery etc.) from the works shown here?
10
AVs Removed
1. Clip 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YguwctfaE48
2. Clip 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqUpftCklb0&t=50s

Wonderwall – from George Harrison’s debut solo album Wonderwall Music
Don’t Look Back in Anger from John Osborne’s 1959 play and film Look Back In Anger

In choosing the name for a newly defined phenomenon, this person
wanted to avoid any sexual connotations. She therefore chose the
operative part of a four-word name using a ‘dictionary entry’ – that she
claims defined it as ‘a point or period of highest development, greatest
prosperity, or the like’. The creator was clearly mixing up stuff cos while
the ‘highest point’ meaning is correct and therefore used in geography
and science – there is no reference to prosperity etc. in the original Latin.
What does the term used actually translate to in Latin – because of
which it is used to mean highest point?
What phenomenon was she describing?
11

AV Removed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s6Bgz9F-cs
(relevant parts are the reception interaction bit of the clip only)

Meridian as in Autonomous Sensory
Meridian Response (ASMR) literally
translates to mid-day
which is where we get prime meridian etc. from

• Deriving from the layout of St. Stephen’s chapel where something
happened for the first time
• Inspired by ancient Greek performance venues
• A hybrid of the above two in a horseshoe shape
• Truly circular – inspired by something from the 9th century
• The classroom – common in countries that are single party systems
The above list is an exhaustive list of design inspirations for what type of
places?
12

Parliament Buildings
As in the House of
Commons inspired
by St. Stephens
chapel
Greek Theatres Hybrid adopted by
the French post-
revolution
Inspired by the
Althing – the oldest
parliament in the
world
Used by beloved
leaders like Putin,
Kim Jong-Il etc.

Part of an exhibition called Hyphenated Lives – these creations have
seemingly nonsensical names like Cy-Oaki, Man-Yan, Deo-Yan, Sham-Rose,
Edel-Ip, Pea-Kar, Sun-Poe, Lo-Mine etc. to cite a few (some visuals follow).
What essential criterion did the artist apply in creating these works?
(your answer needs to tell me why these combinations were chosen and
not any others)
What was the last entry – whose description I have blanked out called?
13

National Symbols of countries in conflict with each other
(e.g. Sham-Rose – Irish shamrock and Tudor rose, Pea-kar – peacock for India and chukar for Pakistan, Sun-Poe –
Palestinian sunbird and the hoopoe from Israel etc.)
The Ti-Khor (from Tiger and Markhor)

In 1980, an exhibition at the 79 Gallery involving Sliman Mansour, Nabil Anani
and Issam Badr was shut down and all the works confiscated – because they
were judged to have violated an existing law banning depictions of a specific
object (even though none of the works actually showed the object).
Badr then asked the authorities what would happen “if he were to paint a still
life depicting a __________” and was told that it would be confiscated. As a
result, the objects that Badr referenced in his question is now a common sight
at protests across the region since then.
Subsequently the government doubled down and made the law even more
severe – banning the simultaneous use of some colours – before rolling it back
in 1993.
What object was banned from being depicted by the original law? What was
the subject of Badr’s question – which is now used as a symbol by protestors?
14

Watermelons
Using the colours of the Flag of Palestine was prohibited to
Palestinian artists

According to the critic Bill Krohn, this person possessed in his dining room
a copy of a Thomas Rowlandson print – that featured a motif recreating
an old Dutch master’s work.
Given the obvious connection of the ‘voyeur theme’ depicted to an
upcoming project of his – he then decided that the Dutch master’s work
would be the appropriate for using in his own work as a pivotal plot
device.
What biblical incident is depicted in this print (blown up visual is
shown)? What upcoming project was the Dutch Master’s work featured
in?
15

Susannah and the Elders
Psycho

What name comes from the fact that the fishermen of the tiny village of
Chimbote observed that their catch of anchovies would dry up every year
for a five to six week period around November-December every year?
Audience

El Nino
Named for the Infant Jesus

Written 3- #ThankYOuDeboAndTalent
3 India questions; 10 points each

The audio piece was composed sometime in 2020 in response to events of
the past year.
What globally very ‘popular’ piece is it based on?
W7
AV Removed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOH7BDvOzxY

In the late 1790s, the Portuguese ambassador the Peshwa court Vithalrao
Valaulikar, sent a number of letters to the authorities in Lisbon begging
them to clamp down on the export of a certain item, as they were an
invaluable tool in his negotiations with the Peshwa
Clearly, nothing much has changed since then with aam Janata also
making the same demand from time to time every year.
What item was he urging an export ban on?
W8

A common technique in archaeology involves digging trenches within a
series of squares that can vary in size set inside a larger grid – with the
vertical slices providing a decent cross-section that archaeologists can
then use to compare adjacent layers.
The method is commonly named the ________ _______ method after
someone who first came up with it and used it at multiple sites in India in
the 20th century.
Whose name fills in the blanks?
W9

Mortimer Wheeler
Who was the last British head of the ASI

Pictured is The Garden Court at the
headquarters of a government
institution – restricted for the Governor’s
use. The choice of fauna planted at the
corners is a deliberate nod to its use in a
historic first (in another part of the
world, which is also apt given the
institution involved)
What institution? What are these and
why were they chosen?
16

Following a near scandal at The Regency in
New York in the late 1960s (when they were
alerted in time by a friendly staffer), their
entourage members were given strict
instructions to follow a certain norm when
booking them in hotels (which was a very
frequent occurrence until 1974 or so). The
visual is an oblique clue
Who were the two people involved? What
was the instruction given and why?
17

Richard Burton and
Elizabeth Taylor instructed
staffers to
book all the rooms around
theirs so that their fights
could not secretly be
recorded by journalists
The visual is Olivia Wilde as Suzy Hunt in
Rush – who had a fling with Burton that
ultimately led to the separation

This corrido was extremely popular with the Zapatistas and used
extensively as a rallying song for troops in the Mexican revolution.
According to historians and linguists, the corrido was introduced to and
became popular among jazz musicians on The West Coast following the
wave of Mexican immigration in the early 20th century.
What word used by the jazz musicians in a more ‘recreational’ context
derives from the title of this song?
18
AV Removed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l5TV3veFOY

This late 1920s film is widely considered one of the most ‘technically
sound’ films ever made and something of a modern-day masterpiece.
Very famously, what real life practice was first introduced in the film and
adopted by an agency soon after?
Just about a decade or so after the film released, the national
government issued a crackdown on any international distribution and set
about trying to do #GharWapsi for all available international prints.
What fear prompted this crackdown? (your answer should have at least
one alphanumeric proper noun)?
19

AV Removed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXQEHDyCCTs

The Countdown for space launches; Fritz Lang’s rocket was so
accurate that the Nazis worried Americans would figure out how to
reconstruct an equivalent of the German V2 rockets from the film

Almost all of the historic trading towns on the African coast of the Indian
ocean show a similar architecture – with the use of one predominant
material which is usually covered up with a layer of lime plaster.
What material local to the region is used for constructing these
waterfront buildings? (need a two-word answer)
For what practical reason is the layer of lime plaster applied?
20

Sketch from the 1870s by Richard Francis Burton

Coral Stone
Increasing visibility for incoming ships

This 1975 film was the debut for two absolute legends of Indian cinema.
Rather unusually, the soundtrack for the film includes only this one song –
that the director thought apt to include given who it is originally written
by and the context it was written in. Who is the song written by?
21
AV Removed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItKHxtbcDAQ

In a somewhat surprising late-life career twist, the guy whose voice you
will hear – became a cookbook author and TV host (both titled _________
____ _____) – focusing on the creeping commercialization of one
particular genre.
The book opens with a “Declaration of the ________ Bill of Rights”,
demanding respect for “all the billions of human taste buds and savory
desires”.
Who (obviously more famous for other reasons)? What genre of cooking
did he focus on?
22
AV Removed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHbJOH-WUOg

Bobby Seale co-founder of The Black Panthers
Barbeque

The anatomical part who's name is blanked out (and the bone over which
it lies) both get their names from the Latin for time as it is the first part of
the body where the effects of time are seen.
What is the part named?
The second visual shows the junction at which this bone fuses with three
others on the skull – and is named from the Greek for wing (familiar to us
through the names of certain creatures and devices for travel) – in
reference to depictions of a figure from mythology.
Which mythological figure and why?
23

Temple – from the Latin tempus as it
is the first site where graying starts
The pterion (as in helicopter/ lepidoptera) is
named for Hermes –who is depicted with
wings attached at the pterion

This quiz just went from bad to verse
3 questions, 10 points each

This guy’s career has been somewhat closely tied to the fortunes of the
team he supports – his first ever win was the same day as the team
gaining promotion to the top-flight, his second two years later came just
13 minutes after the team’s greatest achievement to date and his fourth
coming just two weeks before the team’s latest major trophy win.
He has also turned an appearance at the team’s stadium post-wins into
something of a ritual.
Who is the person? What is he nicknamed?
W7

The Meistersaal is a historic concert venue that was turned into a
recording studio in early 1960 because then recent events meant that
there was little chance of outside noise affecting recordings
The studio really took off in the mid-1970s when a high-profile tenant
moved in to record a series of works, who also dubbed the studio “ ___
____ __ ___ ____”
Who was the tenant? What nickname fills in the blanks?
W11

The cap shows the logo for an Aussie
campaign called ‘ _____ __ ____ _____
__’ ( a similar program in New England is
called _____ __ for Nantucket’)
Both of these programs aim to recycle
something from the hospitality industry
that allows life-forms known as ‘spats’
to attach to them, therefore solving a
very important problem.
What objects are being recycled?
What is the Australian program called?
W12

This guy’s career has been somewhat closely tied to the fortunes of the
team he supports – his first ever win was the same day as the team
gaining promotion to the top-flight, his second two years later came just
13 minutes after the team’s greatest achievement to date and his fourth
coming just two weeks before the team’s latest major trophy win.
He has also turned an appearance at the team’s stadium post-wins into
something of a ritual.
Who is the person speaking? What is he nicknamed?
W7

Mark Selby
The Jester from Leicester

David Bowie
The hall by the wall

Oyster shells – which are launched back into the ocean to enable regeneration of local populations
Shuck, Don’t Chuck

In a recent interview the creators Raj and DK admitted, that the scene in
the video was a direct nod to a similar scene from what 2005 Hollywood
film?
Audience
AV Removed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKTCxhN2TEs

Munich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avJtFC36J3g&t=93s

Last 7 Questions, Anti-Clockwise

His India sojourn was actually only a few years long – with the longest
continuous stretch between 1857 and 1860 when he was the first Principal of
what would later become the Deccan College in Poona. He did make a
couple of shorter visits again in the 1880s.
As the long-time editor of The Telegraph he was instrumental in African
affairs – he played a leading role in gathering funds and support for the
Stanley expedition to the Congo in the 1870s (with numerous things named
after him in tribute) and was the first to propose a ‘ ____ __ _____ _______’
– before the idea was hijacked by others and is now normally associated
with those people rather than him.
Who is this person – back in the news thanks to a recent work? What idea
had he proposed in the 1870s?
24

Sir Edwin Arnold – who wrote The Light of Asia
The Cape to Cairo Railway – hijacked by Cecil Rhodes

This coastal South American country supplies 95% of the global production of
wood from a species called Ochroma Pyramidale. Although a hardwood by
nature, the wood is among the softest, lightest, and still most durable and water-
resistant forms available – as a result of which it is much in demand globally.
Over the past couple of years especially – its use in making ‘one particular item’
has spiked demand (with large orders especially from India and China) –
somewhat ironically also leading to the large-scale destruction of forests of the
species wreaking havoc in the native country. What are these new items for
which Ochroma Pyramidale is exclusively used?
The common name from the species comes from Spanish and is a result of the
first use that natives of the country would have put the species to. What does the
Spanish derived common name translate to?
25

Turbine blades for wind power projects
Balsa – meaning Raft in Spanish

Below is an excerpt from a 2002 speech at the Celebrating Chandigarh
symposium. Who is the speaker? What classic 20th century literary work
is he alluding to? (all blanks are the same)
26
“Very surprisingly, this happens by the end of the first chapter itself. But they are so
deliriously happy that they get too tired to do what they set out to do. The following day, they
wake up, other events take place, and they postpone the destruction again. A few days later,
they find that one group is in control of the ________ ______ and every time any dissent is
shown, the protestors are silenced by flashing a picture of the ________ ______ that reduces
them to submission. The new regime is validated by the imagery of the old…….
After all those years of struggling for independence, when the British left, that is what we did,
we occupied Lutyens buildings, we moved into the ________ ______. And every time a new
building is constructed in Delhi (and someone protests) edicts are issued asking them to
comply with the Lutyens-Baker style of architecture. Even when we do get the chance to
build anew all we want to do is extend the ________ ______’

Charles Correa
Animal Farm – the blanked-out term is the Farmer’s House, which the animals take over

The visuals on the next slide are from a 1992 ceremony at the National
Palace where the Alba facsimile was presented to the king and a visiting
head of state. This event was followed by a large public prayer meeting
and commemorative ceremony at the nation’s largest facility where the
king said ‘ _______ isn't a nostalgic memory anymore; it is a place to call
home...What matters is not accountability for what we may have done
wrong or right, but the willingness to look to the future, and analyze the
past in light of our future’
What historic event was being commemorated by these events?
What term has been blanked out in the King’s speech?
27

The Alhambra decree – expelling the Jews from Spain
Sepharad/ Sefarad (which is the Hebrew name for Spain, hence Sephardic Jews)

The art for this 1989 debut album was created by the band’s guitarist –
inspired by Jackson Pollock. He also incorporated a few additional
elements – based on something he had seen in a documentary covering
an event from two decades or so before the album released.
The title he chose for the painting also inspired the single you will hear on
the album that references both the historic event and the use that the
participants had made of this item.
What event ? What items and what use were they put to?
28

AV Removed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVwLhV1oY1c

The Paris Riots of 1968 where protesting students famously used
lemon to counter the effects of tear gas

Apart from his primary claim to fame, he was also a fixture on the music
scene of the city – often DJing, and directing and producing music videos for
his genre inventing friends (visual follows). His friendship with these genre-
inventors was responsible for a certain motif featured across his works,
which was his way of trying to imitate a basic action that these pioneers
were performing. What motif in his works was inspired by the new genre?
In addition, he also was influenced by musical royalty from an older genre
(who often featured as subjects in his works) – and he incorporated another
motif, which would also become a sort of personal trademark from these
interactions. What was this motif?
29

Scratchings – similar to hip-hop DJs
The Crown to honor jazz legends with
royal names

The genus and species name for this creature are the same – deriving
from a character in myth – the bare skin around the head and neck
perhaps an allusion to the character’s death by hanging (helpful visuals
follow)
What character?
The common Indian name (that has since been adopted by others over
the world in common use) is a corruption of the Sanskrit for ‘lake-bird’ –
the same name also lending itself to a place name in Pune.
What place name in Pune derives from this creature?
30

Antigone (daughter of Oedipus)
Sarasbag – which derives from the Sarus crane (Sarus = Sar-hans)

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