Interrobang

A history of the BC quiz club - I The story of the BC quiz club as told by Shrirang Raddi Installment  #1 : While Amalesh and I were being dumped from the BEQ national 'semi-finals' last Saturday (in 2003), there was a familiar figure in the audience. None other than the rotund figure of Vishal Dalal.  (How rotund? Vishal = George Thomas * 2)He was one of the quiz regulars in our time at COEP, and his immortality in quizzing circles is assured by the fact that he was one of the two fathers of the first Saturday Quiz in 1993, the small thing that has grown into the BCQC. Set me thinking about the days gone by. Dont know how many quizzers would be interested in knowing about the Quiz scene as it was back then, but I'd certainly love to write about it. Starting with my pre-COEP days - my first brush with quizzing was also my first brush with COEP quizzers. This was back in 1986/87 when I was in...

Apologies. This purpose of this blog has been reduced to reporting 'non-quizzes' that are being held in Pune. But then its fate that such things are happening to us. A-MAZE, an inter-college fest was held at the Indian Institute of Planning and Management. The Corporate Quiz was one of the various events. There was also a smaller 'One Minute Quiz' the day before. First, the results:- 1 st : FC 2 nd : SCIT 3 rd : SITM Also: IIPM, ISBN, SCMHRD, VIT Total teams participating: 11 No. of rounds: 3 (general, identify-the-logo, rapid fire) Questions per team: 4 (+ about 10 in rapid fire) Features of the quiz: "All questions are non-transferable." (VERVE, anybody?) "Twenty points per correct answer in the identify-the-logo round." (How else do we show impressive scoring with only 3 rounds?) "Minus 10 for wrongly identifying the logo" (We have to spice up the quiz, don't we?) "On...

Comments on Inquizzition V If you were a part of Inquizzition V and have any comments, please leave them here for the benefit of the organisers. My comments: Organisation: Was quite good this time, so congratulations to the organising team. Well, the odd time lapses & technical goof-ups are expected of most quizzes, are they not? Presentation: I really think that if answers are to be put on slides, then you have to make doubly/triply sure (with the zeal of a paranoid criminal) that you can prevent the inadvertant lapse. It's happened for the second time running, and I fear that even this time there were no backup questions (or had to use audience ones). Since presentations are becoming such an integral part of the whole quiz experience thingy, I hope the organisers will have a good look at this area. There are a lot of ideas we can implement here. I'm dwelling on this at length because this kind of thing sometimes takes away from the quiz. Elim ...