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BC Infest - III Updated: 15 Dec, Wed Annual excuse to get BC quizzers together and quiz for fun. Not very formal though. Tentative schedule as below: 18th Dec - Sat - 10:30 am: 1. Quiz by Harish 2. India Quiz by Ramanand 3. Quiz by George 4. Quiz by Salil 5. Words quiz by Manish Mahajan 26th Dec - Sun - 11:00 am: "Headbutting Lone Wolf" quiz by Ramanand 1st Jan - Sat - 12:30 pm 1. Quiz by Samrat 2. Quiz by Shrirang All timings & dates are sadly tentative but we hope to stick to them by and large. Will update this post in case of changes.
A history of the BC quiz club - II The story of the BC quiz club as told by Shrirang Raddi Installment 2. This one covers my FE and SE, the years before the Saturday Quizzes started. COEP Days .. Pre- Saturday Club. The batch that entered COEP in 1991 had a clutch of good quizzers. There was Maya Kamath, the finest lady quizzer I've known. There was Aniruddha Karve, Vishal Dalal (jaundice ensured he passed out a year behind us) and my Loyola quiz partner Nikhil Jakatdar. The last named was more an enthu quizzer than a great one; but to put things in perspective he is more famous today for having sold his startup for something in excess of $100 million. The college quizzing scene was quite competitive. AFMC were the guys to beat - they had some strong teams and had made winning a habit. The other strong colleges were Fergusson and BJMC. COEP was always strong; but the one thing that distinguished us from the rest was the absence of a home quiz. AFMC had 2 - Shya...