# Mythomagic 2022 Prelims - Quiz by: Prayag Mohanty (QM Prayag) - Published: 2022-11-18 - Slides: 49 - Event: Waves 2022, BITS Goa - Topics: TLC, General, MELA - View online: https://prayag-mohanty.github.io/QM/quiz/mythomagic-2022-prelims/ - Download PDF: https://prayag-mohanty.github.io/QM/files/mythomagic-2022-prelims/mythomagic-2022-prelims.pdf Mythomagic 2022 Prelims: a quiz set with questions and answers (49 slides) by Prayag Mohanty. View online, download or share. ## Slides ### Slide 1 BITS Goa Quiz Club's Myth-O-Magic DLT-8 QM: Prayag Mohanty ### Slide 2 Rules 15 Written questions, 1 point each. Part points for getting half-correct answers. No Negatives, feel free to guess anything. Top 6 teams will qualify to the finals. In the case of a tie, tiebreakers will be evaluated. Write your team name and phone number on the sheet before submitting. Don't cheat. LOL. No I'm serious QM's decision is final ### Slide 3 Q1. One of the biggest unsolved mysteries of our times; this incident has several theories explaining it's reason . YouTube commenters suggested that Pitbull and Shakira might have foreseen the trouble, a couple of years ago, pointing to their 2012 song "Get it Started." They ponder this lyric: "Now it's off to ________," Pitbull sings, "Two passports, three cities, two countries, one day." ### Slide 4 Q2. A large species of heron, now extinct, lived on the Arabian Peninsula in comparatively recent times, may have been the ultimate inspiration for the Bennu, an ancient Egyptian deity linked with the sun, creation, and rebirth. According to Egyptian mythology, the Bennu was a self-created being said to have played a role in the creation of the world. The Greeks gave The Bennu the name 'P', by which it has attained its world-wide fame. ID P ### Slide 5 Q3. X is a collectible card and figurine game involved trading cards and miniature figurines in the Riordan universe. It is focused on Greek mythology. X is also the production company founded by Rick and Becky Riordan. Its immediate goal is to facilitate the development of Rick’s intellectual properties into great television and film. ID X ### Slide 6 Q4. According to a legend once Sage Narada, persuaded Vayu to humiliate proud Mount Meru to prove his supremacy. For an year, the God of Wind blow unremittingly against the Mount to destroy it — and he would have made it if Garuda, wouldn't have protected it with his mighty wings. But when Garuda closed his wings for a moment to rest, Vayu stroke the last breath of wind towards Mount Meru's summit which cracked and fell off to create ? ### Slide 7 Q5. What are tiered buildings, or parts of buildings that have step-like features, constructed in Art Deco referred to as? ### Slide 8 Q6. What misconception, also a commonly used English phrase originates from the manufacturing process of pig iron, wherein the smelted iron ore is poured into long parallel sand pits to help cool them down? The visual indicator that the liquid metal has cooled down gave rise to the phrase. ### Slide 9 Q7. Though it seems pretty Godlike feat to perform, it has been performed by magicians, most famously by Dynamo in 2011. He used plexiglass, due to it's rigidity and hired the entire crew to create the illusion. Bypassers were stunned to see the feat. What feat? ### Slide 10 Q8. X was one of the few people who was described both in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. X, King of refused to bow to Yudhishthira stating that he bowed to none but Rama who was Vishnu on earth. Krishna, who was also Vishnu on earth, fell at Yudhishthira's feet stating that any king who upholds dharma on earth is like Rama. Seeing this, X changed his mind and fell at Yudhishthira's feet X? ### Slide 11 Q9. The earliest record of belief in the X goes back to ancient Greece and Rome, where the people believed that the X was the greatest threat for anyone who has more money, fame, etc. than they deserve and those who are overly praised. In Europe, the myth of the X originated with the idea that bad luck will befall those who are given a malicious or envious look. Hinduism preaches that our Xs are the most powerful part of the body. Because of this, there is a strong fear of the “bad” look from the X and many believe that it holds a huge amount of power. What is X? ### Slide 12 Q10. "Four magicians each answer a mysterious summons to an obscure address with secrets inside. A year later, they are the Four Horsemen, big time stage illusionists who climax their sold-out Las Vegas show with a bank apparently robbed for real" ID the movie John Cena fans would say the opposite of the title of this movie ### Slide 13 Q11. Which organisation would you associate with this logo? ### Slide 14 Q12. The Vikings used X to navigate. They brought X aboard their ships, then released them and sailed in the same direction to find land. The X was so important to them that it became the symbol on their flag. ### Slide 15 Q13. ID the creature ### Slide 16 Q14. It is based on the legendary Indian king Suheldev who defeated the army of Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Maqsud in the Battle of Bahraich. It was nominated for and won the Golden Book Award 2022. Who is the author? ### Slide 17 Q15. Methemoglobinemia is a condition where hemoglobin is unable to release oxygen effectively to body tissues. As the blood doesn't get oxygenated, it causes a certain reaction. This condition is given as a scientific explanation for a popular mythological entity. The religious interpretation of this condition is that the certain reaction is seen as the perception of our X to see anything immeasurable as X. Hence it justifies the fact that the entity is beyond our perception and is apt to attribute X to this entity. What is being talked about? ### Slide 18 Mytho Prelims Answers DLT-8 ### Slide 19 Q1. One of the biggest unsolved mysteries of our times, with several theories explaining it's reason - shooting, fire, meteor crashing, blackholes, alien abduction among others. YouTube commenters suggested that Pitbull and Shakira might have foreseen the trouble, pointing to their 2012 song "Get it Started." They ponder this lyric: "Now it's off to Malaysia," Pitbull sings, "Two passports, three cities, two countries, one day." ### Slide 20 MH 370 ### Slide 21 Q2. A large species of heron, now extinct, lived on the Arabian Peninsula in comparatively recent times, may have been the ultimate inspiration for the Bennu, an ancient Egyptian deity linked with the sun, creation, and rebirth. According to Egyptian mythology, the Bennu was a self-created being said to have played a role in the creation of the world. The Greeks gave The Bennu the name 'P', by which it has attained its world-wide fame. ID P ### Slide 22 Phoenix ### Slide 23 Q3. X is a collectible card and figurine game involved trading cards and miniature figurines in the Riordan universe. It is focused on Greek mythology. X is also the production company founded by Rick and Becky Riordan. Its immediate goal is to facilitate the development of Rick’s intellectual properties into great television and film. ID X ### Slide 24 Mythomagic ### Slide 25 Q4. According to a legend once Sage Narada, persuaded Vayu to humiliate proud Mount Meru to prove his supremacy. For an year, the God of Wind blow unremittingly against the Mount to destroy it — and he would have made it if Garuda, wouldn't have protected it with his mighty wings. But when Garuda closed his wings for a moment to rest, Vayu stroke the last breath of wind towards Mount Meru's summit which cracked and fell off to create ? ### Slide 26 Sri Lanka ### Slide 27 Q5. What are tiered buildings, or parts of buildings that have step-like features, constructed in Art Deco referred to as? ### Slide 28 Ziggurat ### Slide 29 Q6. What misconception, also a commonly used English phrase originates from the manufacturing process of pig iron, wherein the smelted iron ore is poured into long parallel sand pits to help cool them down? The visual indicator that the liquid metal has cooled down gave rise to the phrase. ### Slide 30 Pigs don't sweat ### Slide 31 Q7. Though it seems pretty Godlike feat to perform, it has been performed by magicians, most famously by Dynamo in 2011. He used plexiglass, due to it's rigidity and hired the entire crew to create the illusion. Bypassers were stunned to see the feat. What feat? ### Slide 32 Walking on water ### Slide 33 Q8. X was one of the few people who was described both in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. X, King of refused to bow to Yudhishthira stating that he bowed to none but Rama who was Vishnu on earth. Krishna, who was also Vishnu on earth, fell at Yudhishthira's feet stating that any king who upholds dharma on earth is like Rama. Seeing this, X changed his mind and fell at Yudhishthira's feet X? ### Slide 34 Vibhisana ### Slide 35 Q9. The earliest record of belief in the X goes back to ancient Greece and Rome, where the people believed that the X was the greatest threat for anyone who has more money, fame, etc. than they deserve and those who are overly praised. In Europe, the myth of the X originated with the idea that bad luck will befall those who are given a malicious or envious look. Hinduism preaches that our Xs are the most powerful part of the body. Because of this, there is a strong fear of the “bad” look from the X and many believe that it holds a huge amount of power. What is X? ### Slide 36 Evil eye ### Slide 37 Q10. "Four magicians each answer a mysterious summons to an obscure address with secrets inside. A year later, they are the Four Horsemen, big time stage illusionists who climax their sold-out Las Vegas show with a bank apparently robbed for real" ID the movie John Cena fans would say the opposite of the title of this movie ### Slide 38 Now you can see me ### Slide 39 Q11. Which organisation would you associate with this logo? ### Slide 40 Flat Earth Society ### Slide 41 Q12. The Vikings used X to navigate. They brought X aboard their ships, then released them and sailed in the same direction to find land. The X was so important to them that it became the symbol on their flag. ### Slide 42 Raven ### Slide 43 Q13. ID the creature ### Slide 44 Unicorn ### Slide 45 Q14. It is based on the legendary Indian king Suheldev who defeated the army of Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Maqsud in the Battle of Bahraich. It was nominated for and won the Golden Book Award 2022. Who is the author? ### Slide 46 Amish Tripathi ### Slide 47 Q15. Methemoglobinemia is a condition where hemoglobin is unable to release oxygen effectively to body tissues. As the blood doesn't get oxygenated, it causes a certain reaction. This condition is given as a scientific explanation for a popular mythological entity. The religious interpretation of this condition is that the certain reaction is seen as the perception of our X to see anything immeasurable as X. Hence it justifies the fact that the entity is beyond our perception and is apt to attribute X to this entity. What is being talked about? ### Slide 48 Blue color of Vishnu and his avatars ### Slide 49 Thank You ! Follow @bitsgoaquizclub for more updates