A general quiz session set and hosted by Akshay Parale at BCQC Pune

1. BCQC Sunday Quiz Session
Akshay Parale | 19th June 2022

2. Acknowledgements
• Thanks to BCQC for the opportunity to conduct a session.
• COEP for being the unofficial venue partner for most of the
sessions and for my four years of engineering
• COEP quiz club and IIT B quiz club for all the quizzes/sessions
that’ve helped me stay active in quizzing circuit!

3. Format
• Teams of 2
• 33 Questions on the bounce/pounce
• Order will be reversed midway (post Q16)
• +10/-5 on the pounce and +10/0 on direct
• Part points wherever applicable
• Part points will be conserved but won’t be revealed by QM
until question is closed

4. Q.1.
• Formally known as the Ryan NYP, this exhibit is on a permanent
display at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space
Museum in Washington D.C.
• It got its popular name in honour of X’s supporters from the
Raquette Club in his hometown in Missouri.
• How do we popularly know Ryan NYP and who is X?

5. Safety Slide

6. Spirit of St. Louis, X: Charles Lindbergh

7. Q.2.
• Where will you find the Maid of the Mist, a popular boat tour
operating since 1846, when it started as a border-crossing ferry?

9. Safety Slide

10. Niagara falls

11. Q.3.
• Mumbai Police announced the return of one of their units in 2020
which was disbanded in 1932 owing to the space constraints put by
rising motor vehicles
• The reason given for their revival is that it would be able to
command fear and respect from an unruly crowd as the police can
keep a watch from a vantage point and can be as effective as 30
personnel.
• A 2.5-acre plot at police headquarters in Andheri East was identified
for this purpose.
• Which unit is this that galloped back into the force and was a
prominent feature at the 2020 Republic Day parade at Shivaji Park?

12. Safety Slide

13. Horse-mounted police unit

14. Q.4.
• This rock-cut stone statue is one of the attractions at the Jijamata
Udyaan. It was broken during an attempt of moving it to England in
1864 and hence what can be seen is the re-assembled version.
• Where was it located earlier?

16. Safety Slide

17. Elephanta Caves

18. Q.5.
• This is a screen grab from the 2005 movie BluffMaster! starring
Abhishek Bachchan produced by Ramesh Sippy. It contains a
strong allusion to Sippy’s next project. The reference may be
unintentional.
• Which 2006 project?

20. Safety Slide

21. Taxi No 9211

22. Q.6.
• P.G. Wodehouse, the famous humorist once joked:
• “There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is
called the __________”
• The invention in question is very often attributed to the French but
there were earlier prototypes already in use in other parts of the
world.
• The name with which we famously know it is after a French
physician who suggested a better and a more humane approach in
carrying out the task.
• Which invention?

23. Safety Slide

24. Guillotine (from Joseph-Ignace Guillotin)

25. Q.7.
• A mural titled ‘Three Proud People’ was created in Sydney in 2000
and is one of the city’s memorable artworks
• It captures one of the standout moments from about 5 decades
back.
• What was it based on?

26. Safety Slide

27. Black Power Salute- 1968 Mexico Olympics

28. Q.8.
• Carl von Ossietzky was a German pacifist who was convicted of
espionage for exposing the re-armament in Germany in violation of the
Treaty of Versailles
• Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese writer and activist, was referred to as the China’s
Nelson Mandela. He was involved in movements to end the one-party
Communist rule and was under suspicion for inciting subversion of state
power.
• Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy had won the 1990
General Elections convincingly, but the military refused to hand over the
power.
• These three have been the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• What connects these three within the context of receiving this honour?

29. Safety Slide

30. They received the prize while in
detention/prison

31. Q.9.
• A team of physicists at the Lancaster University used these in an
experiment where they were cooled to -273.15 deg C.
• They suggested that these objects, made from ABS (acrylonitrile
butadiene styrene) can be used to build dilution refrigerators.
• This could help replace the expensive materials used in creating the
refrigerators and help in several areas including development of
quantum computers.
• What did they use for the experiment?
(It is estimated that 1140 of these are produced every second and more than
400 billion of them have been produced till date ( in 2020)?

32. Safety Slide

33. Lego Bricks

34. Q.10.
• There are several false etymologies that have developed over the years
for the origin of the term for an amateur radio/ amateur radio operator.
• As per one such story, it is derived from the names of three radio
pioneers. But this theory was refuted as one of them was an unknown
college student when this term was already in use.
• Name the 3 pioneers.

35. Safety Slide

36. Heinrich Hertz; Edwin Armstrong;
Guglielmo Marconi

37. Q.11.
• Cepelinai is a traditional Lithuanian dish of stuffed potato dumplings.
They are made from grated and riced potatoes and stuffed with ground
meat or dry cottage cheese. It has been described as the national dish of
Lithuania.
• It is named so because of the resemblance in shape to something
(popular in earlier part of the 20th century)
• What are they named after?
(Their demise was hastened after a late 1930s event)

39. Safety Slide

40. Zeppelins

41. Q.12.
• This pose was first developed in the Iyengar tradition as a therapeutic
pose for cardiac patients.
• In the words of yogini Bobby Clenell, it is like shavasana on stilts
• One will need nine to fourteen blocks of same thickness to do this.
• The pose is reflective of a person’s fate and is named in honour of that
person.
• Who is it named after?/ Id the pose.

43. Safety Slide

44. Bhishmasana

45. Q.13.
• What is the name of the men’s Ultimate Frisbee team from Princeton
University? The name and the outfit might remind you of a famous work
and its subsequent film adaptation. Give either.

47. Safety Slide

48. Clockwork Orange

49. Q.14.
• Alec-Fraser-Brunner, an ichthyologist (branch of zoology that deals with
fish-science) designed it as a logo for the tourism board of the country.
• The lower part is representative of the city’s origin as a fishing village
(still debated) while the upper part is representative of its current
identity.
• People from that city/country often use it as a slang for vomiting.
• What am I talking about?

50. Safety Slide

51. Merlion of Singapore

52. Q.15.
What is happening over here (Jan 2020)?
In 2020 the number is said to be 100 seconds which is the closest since its
creation in 1947 and has remained unchanged ever since.

54. Safety Slide

55. Doomsday Clock Announcement

56. Q.16.
• The U.S Department of Energy used the simplified version of the subject
as one of the pictographs for use as a non-language-specific symbol of
danger to warn the increasing presence of radioactive waste.
• A patient research group of trigeminal neuralgia (most painful condition
in existence) has also adopted the above subject as symbol of the
condition.
• What (created in late 19th century) served as inspiration for both?

57. Safety Slide

58. Edvard Munch’s Scream

59. Q.17.
• Sophie Germain was a mathematician-physicist-philosopher who was an
early pioneer of theory of elasticity
• Despite her achievements she couldn’t make it to the elite list of 72
people (scientists, engineers and mathematicians)
• Her exclusion, therefore, has been criticized knowing that her work on
the theory of elasticity added value to the entity that has this list.
• Where can one find this elite list?

60. Safety Slide

61. Eiffel Tower. Names of scientists/engineers
engraved on it

62. Reverse

63. Q.18.
• The 2017 Mumbai civic polls were quite interesting as two major
parties had broken the alliance.
• In a clear snub to the party’s late patriarch’s initial career, BJP released
a series of animated videos.
• It depicted the party as Khau Sena- an allusion to corruption using one
of the symbols commonly identified with the party.
• These videos started with the symbol doing something which hints
that the inspiration was taken from Hollywood, but the action shown
was to show a mellowed version of what we normally see in the
original.
• What was the inspiration? What was the change shown in these
videos?

64. Safety Slide

65. MGM Lion; Tiger is meowing instead of
roaring
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https://youtu.be/Vga2mbIBCw

66. Q.19.
• Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic
depression in Europe and North America starting two decades of
stagnation.
• For Britain specifically, their trade suffered as the sailing vessels were
not adaptable for use because the Mediterranean winds blew from
west to east and the vessels were carrying goods from Far East
• An 1869 introduction is often cited as one of the reasons for the panic
• What is the 1869 introduction? Why were these issues not faced prior
to 1869?

67. Safety Slide

68. Opening of the Suez Canal;
Vessels used to take the route which went
about the Cape of Good Hope

69. Q.20.
• Pirelli, the tyre manufacturer has been strongly associated with
the Inter-Milan over the decades
• It however came under the fire because of one of its ads post
UEFA Cup-1998 which was won by Inter-Milan
• It showed its subject with his hands outstretched ascending onto
the higher plane. It tried to combine his signature celebration
style and was styled upon a cultural icon from the subject’s home
city.
• Who was the subject of this ad? What was the source of
inspiration for his pose?

70. Safety Slide

71. It showed Ronaldo posing as Christ the Redeemer

72. Q.21.
• This mural has gone up in Feb 2020 on Ebor Street in Whitechapel. This
is temporary and an advert for the book ‘The Five’ written by Hallie
Rubenhold, a bid to start a campaign for a permanent mural.
• The book unpicks the lives of the canonical five: Mary Ann “Polly”
Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and
Mary Jane Kelly
• Hallie was critical of a set of city tours happening in London and hopes
that the mural will be a counterpoint to those atrocious tours.
• How do we know these five women?

74. Safety Slide

75. Victims of Jack the
Ripper- White
Chapel murders

76. Q.22.
• The apparatus shown is a resuscitation mechanism with an oxygen
cylinder attached
• It was designed for reviving the subjects placed inside
• They were affected by the presence of toxic gases such as carbon
monoxide or asphyxiant gases in certain places before the people
carrying the apparatus.
• This usage has led to the coining of a phrase which is frequently used
to refer to something that serves as an early warning of a coming
crisis.
• What is placed inside this apparatus? What’s the good phrase?

78. Safety Slide

79. Canary birds; Canary in a coal mine

80. Q.23.
• Maria Grazia Chiuri is the first and only female creative director at
Dior and has been instrumental in bringing feminism to the house
of Dior.
• Here is her sketch for one of the gowns. It required 600 hours of
workmanship and involved work by six artisans.
• Celine Sciamma, Marielle Heller, Lorene Scafaria and a few others
were somehow involved in the making of the cape of the gown.
• In what manner were the above women involved which is in line
to the change she is bringing about at Dior?

82. Safety Slide

83. Natalie Portman’s Oscar Dress with names of female
directors snubbed at the directorial nomination at 2020
Oscars

84. Q.24.
• There is an oft-repeated legend about how the Asiatic Society of
Bombay received an offer of 1 million pounds from X in 1930 to buy a
manuscript which is one of the only two known original copies of a
famous work
• It is kept inside a secure vault and was last opened in 2015 to
commemorate the 750th birth anniversary of its creator
• It is a beautiful codex on parchment and richly illustrated. It was given
to the Society by Mountstuart Elphinstone, governor of Bombay and
President of the Society from 1819–1827 and bears his signature
• Which work and id X who supposedly wanted to get back the national
treasure?

85. Safety Slide

86. Dante’s Divine Comedy; Benito Mussolini

87. Safety Slide

88. Q.25.
• Monopoly released the Brussels edition in 2019. As a part of that,
it featured various famous locations, monuments of Brussels on
its box cover.
• The Belgians were however disappointed since it featured one of
its heritage landmarks with a censored change.
• Which iconic landmark? What was the change?

89. Safety Slide

90. Showed the Manneken Piss statue with the
boy wearing a swimming trunk

91. Q.26.
• This person was placed 2nd in BBC public poll to determine the 100
Greatest Britons in 2002.
• One of his most famous designs ‘The SS Great Eastern’ is shown on
next slide which was a subject of BBC’s Seven Wonders of the
Industrial World
• He died in 1859 shortly after her ill-fated maiden voyage during which
she was damaged by an explosion.
• In 1866, she was used for a special purpose.
• The object involved has been described as The Great Sea-Serpent by
Hans Cristian Andersen in his eponymous story describing the havoc
caused by it among sea-dwellers.
• Who? What was the ship used for in 1866?

93. Safety Slide

94. Isambard Kingdom Brunel; Laying of
transatlantic telegraph cable

95. Q.27.
• The __________ ______ is a passerine bird species native to
_________ and other countries in the southern hemisphere.
• They are one of the most accomplished songbirds. Though they
partly share their name with the Eurasian ones, they aren’t
related.
• They have excellent mimicking abilities. The video shows one
such example
• Identify the bird species. Why are the mimicking this type of call
which may have risen in the country in late 2019?

96. https://youtu.be/zHzs-mlDXMY

97. Safety Slide

98. Australian magpie; Mimicking the sound of
emergency vehicles in the wake of Australian
Bushfire

99. Q.28.
• This is a screengrab discussing
three stories centered around the
same theme.
• A) Novel by Gaston Leroux and
1986 musical
• B) Fairy Tale first published in 1740
• C) 1831 novel
• Name all 3 stories/musicals.

101. Safety Slide

102. Phantom of the Opera;
Beauty and the Beast;
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

103. Q.29.
• These black steel fences are a characteristic feature of Peckham,
Brixton, Oval and East London. Thousands of Londoners walk
past them every day oblivious to their fascinating history.
• In 2017, a campaign was launched to save them.
• They served a different and a vital purpose about 7-8 decades
back
where half a million of them were used.
• After the purpose was served the city council decided to weld
them to replace missing fencing at various estates.
• What was their initial purpose?

105. Safety Slide

106. Railings made from WW2 stretchers used
during Blitz

107. Q.30.
• The year 1953 witnessed two major events separated over 3 days.
• The epicentre of the first event was in Asia and took place on
Friday 29th May. It was the ninth attempt by Britain
• The news about the about the above event reached Britain just in
time on 2nd June where the second event was about to happen on
that day itself.
• The media called the news as a gift for the event about to happen
• Which two events?

108. Safety Slide

109. First ascent of Mount Everest; Queen
Elizabeth the II’s Coronation

110. Q.31.
• The Charge of the Mamelukes is a
painting set in the Calle de Alcala,
near Madrid during the Dos de
mayo uprising. It depicts one of
the many people’s rebellions that
sparked the Peninsular War.
• It is known by another more
popular name and is also
companion to another painting
depicting the event happening on
the next day
• Id both the paintings

111. Safety Slide

112. The 2nd of
May 1808;
The 3rd of
May 1808

113. Q.32.
• PETA has asked for the use of AI to replace the current practice
(performed since 1887) to predict weather
• “Times change. Traditions evolve. It’s long overdue for ---- to be
retired,”
• Which tradition that is performed in first week of Feb every year?
Whom will the AI replace?

114. Safety Slide

115. Groundhog Day; Punxsutawney Phil

116. Safety Slide

117. Q.33.
• Foundation stone at this landmark in Bangalore was laid in 1969.
A structure was built in 2008 but it was done so at the expense of
the plaque which marks the construction of the landmark itself.
• There are plaques on the structure depicting the years 1997-2012
and 48 plaques distributed amongst these years and each of
these signifies something achieved between these years
• Which landmark? What is this structure? What do the 48 plaques
signify?

118. Safety Slide

119. Chinnaswamy Stadium;
Wall which serves as tribute to Rahul Dravid;
His centuries over the years