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BCQC January Open Quizzing Supported by Landmark We kick off 2007 with an early bout of serious quizzing, this time with a College quiz and the other regular features. Here are the details: Common Details Date and Time : 7 January 2007, Sunday Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, "Bhageerath", Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune (nearest landmarks: the building is behind Domino's Pizza; this is the same road as the main Symbiosis college, ICC Trade Towers; ~5 kms from Pune railway station; 2 kms from Pune University Circle) Contact for info : 98810 00957 (Shamanth), 93244 45248 (Ramanand), contact-at-bcqc-dot-org Fees : none - just show up and you can take part. Registration : on the spot. Prizes : courtesy Landmark, Pune . Quiz 1: Open quiz for College Students : Organised by: Akhil and Apurva Flavour: General Team Size: Upto three per team Restrictions: none; unlimited number of teams per college, mixed teams allowed Reportin...

KQA's "Go Ogle" online quiz (Message from KQA's Arul Mani) The KQA will hold Go Ogle, its annual online quiz on 1st January 2007. The quiz is set by Arul Mani.The rules are given below. Rules: Open to all solo contestants, irrespective of age or location. Prior registration is required. Please email us (kqaquizzes at gmail.com) your name, age, address and other contact details by 30th December 2006. The quiz will be posted at our blog http://community. livejournal. com/kqaquizzes The quiz will be available for access from 1700hrs IST on 1st Jan and will be taken off at 2100hrs IST. Participants will attempt the quiz at the blog. Those who do not have a livejournal account may post reponses anonymously. Such entrants must however leave their name (and email i.d used while registering) at the bottom of the entry. Unsigned anonymous entries will not be considered. No participant is allowed more than one attempt at the quiz. Attempts at skulduggery will re...

The Mod Mod Infinite Rebounds Ages ago, I'd written a post on Infinite Rebounds as part of a series discussing scoring formats in quizzes. That post has a couple of errors which came to notice in time, and is slightly obsolete now. This current post aims to correct those errors and record the current set of conventions that are followed in IR (at least in the BC circles). This post is also partly aimed at perhaps reaching a consensus on how we should run this method here - it is after all the most popular form of conducting a quiz in these parts - so as to avoid the usual raised eyebrows just before the finals of a quiz begin when the quizmaster announces his nth variation. Infinite Rebounds a.k.a. Infinite Bounds (IR) is one of the algorithms to answer the timeless quizzing question of "who gets the next question?". One answer is in these commonly agreed conventions is IR: (Some terms and abbreviations: * Q{n-1} : the previous question which has been completed...

November 2006 BC Regular Open Quiz - QM's (Samrat's) views A tightly contested quiz, decided on the last few questions. I was surprised seeing that only 3 out of 60 Qs were left unanswered. Though I believe in setting workable and not too difficult questions, but this was a superb performance by the teams by any standards. Hats off to the quality of the teams. Plus it helped that there were 3 member teams. It definitely improves the chances of getting the answers right. Anand and Vibhendu were somewhat disadvantaged by losing their partner in the middle. It didn't strike me at that time, or we could have arranged a replacement from the 10th-11th team in qualifying, as those guys missed out by only 1 point and they were also newcomers to BCQC. The differential point system was not appreciated by the teams in general. My rationale for having it was that it is not possible to set questions of equal difficulty level. And in quizzes I have seen people crib that the other tea...

Appy Fizz - Champions of the World quiz by ESPN Star Sports Preliminary Round - Mumbai Date: 7th Dec. 2006 Venue: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai. Results: 1st - Symbiosis Law (Suvajit Chakravarti + 1(pls to put hand up)) 2nd: Aniket Khasgiwale and Abhishek Nagaraj (in supporting role) 3rd: NMIMS, Mumbai. The thing that peeved/flabbergasted me most about this quiz was the fact that ESPN Star (and the whole wonderful troupe that comes along) had decided to conduct a nation-wide college only (under-25) quiz on the extremely narrow theme of 'World Cup Cricket'. Now, the rights for the WC, as everyone knows, are not with ESPN-Star and the timing of this event could be only to co-incide with West Indies 07. Anyway, after the journey to Mumbai, we turned up at the venue to find a surprisingly low number of teams who had turned up (about 25). Considering that we had come to know about it only the day before, it appears that the standard publicity machinery had not been expl...

November 2006 BC Regular Open Quiz - Report Date: 3 Dec, 2006 (Sunday) Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Set and Conducted by: Samrat Sengupta Quiz Final Results (60 questions) 1st: Shamanth Rao, Kunal Sawardekar, Meghashyam Shirodkar (E): 62 2nd: Rishi Iyengar, Sumant Srivathsan, B.V.Harishkumar (A): 56 3rd: Amit Varma, Ravi Venkatesh, Kunal Thakar (B): 50 4th: Anand Sivashankar, Vibhendu Tiwari, Siddharth Natarajan (F): 41 5th: J. Ramanand, Abhishek Nagaraj, Salil Bijur (C): 35 6th: Shivaji Marella, Ganesh Hegde, D. Dharmendra (D): 25 (3 out of 60 questions went unanswered) Quiz Elim Results (out of 32 questions) First 6 Teams cutoff: 14.5 (in order) Shamanth-Kunal S (20.5), Rishi-Sumant (20), Ramanand-Abhishek (19.5), Anand-Vibhendu(17.5), Amit-Ravi (16.5), Shivaji-Ganesh (14.5) next 3 cutoff: 13.5 (in order) Meghashyam-Siddharth N (14), Harish-Salil (13.5), Dharmendra-Kunal T (13.5), (just missed out: Biju + Chandan, Akhil + Apurva, both 12.5) BC Them...

November 2006 BC Open Schools Quiz - Report Date: 3 Dec, 2006 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Schools Quiz Set and Conducted by: Shamanth Rao Quiz Final Results (42 questions) 1st: Ruchik, Shantanu, Siddharth - Muktangan Eng. School. - 75.5 Joint 2nd: Aadim, Sarvesh, Omkar - SPM - 75 Joint 2nd: Samrat, Satyajit, Mayuresh - Muktangan Eng. School - 75 Other Finalists: SPM English, SPM English, Abhinava Quiz Elims Results Cutoff: 20/30 (Further details to be updated later) Report * The quiz was attended by about 17 teams (about 50 kids). The number was a little lower than expected (especially in comparison to the workshops) given the lack of restrictions, but this can be attributed to it being a Sunday and not being an event pushed too much by schools who would issue fatwas for more competitive events. However, about half the teams were appearing in a BC quiz for the first time and as some of the top teams from the previous school quiz were not there (mostly T...

Day after exam labours ... The day after led me to working non-stop on the Website for Chakravyuh . Please go and see it - and more importantly, do come. Cheers,

BCQC November Open Quiz Time for the next set of open quizzes (which just spills over to December despite its name). This time, we have a bunch of quizzes, and here are the details: Common Details Date and Time : 3 December, Sunday Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, "Bhageerath", Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune (nearest landmarks: the building is behind Domino's Pizza; this is the same road as the main Symbiosis college, ICC Trade Towers; ~5 kms from Pune railway station; 2 kms from Pune University Circle) Contact for info : 98810 00957 (Shamanth), 93244 45248 (Ramanand), contact-at-bcqc-dot-org Fees : none - just show up and you can take part. Registration : on the spot. Quiz 1: Open quiz for schoolchildren : Organised by: Shamanth Flavour: General Team Size: Upto three per team Restrictions: none; unlimited number of teams per school Reporting time: 9 am. (The quiz will be from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm) Quiz 2: Open quiz Organised ...

BCQC Schools Workshop I Facilitator : Shamanth Rao De-facilitators: Abhishek and Salil Venue: Symbiosis Library. The workshop was attended by around 40 kids. This is because the 20 from Abhinava did not turn up for some reason. So we had 20+20 from Symbiosis and Muktangan. The workshop itself went exceedingly well. We found that most(80%) kids really enjoyed themselves, and as usual Shamanth's questions were quite perfect for the occasion. Points to self would be, ensure that the furniture at workshop location is not a hindrance rather than being useful. Need to ensure that there is enough space for people to huddle around etc. Need to inform schools about this in future. Another thing we need to do is to tell schools that when we say we expect nothing in return, we mean 'nothing'. Therefore, I and Shamanth walked out bearing two handsomely decorated potted plants, which though were wonderful, we quite hard to carry back home for us poor motorcyclists. Looking...

Trivius - An online trivia game Play Trivius , an online trivia game from the School of Management in IIT, Bombay. The content was created by us at the BCQC . Read the rules on that site and get clues at the Avenues blog .

Inquizzition 2006, FC Date: 30 Sept, 2006 Venue : Fergusson College, Pune Set by: Quest, FC Quiz Society Conducted by: Ulka Athale, Veda Aggarwal Quiz Final Results (60 questions) 1st: Aadisht Khanna and Rishi Iyengar: 105 Jt. 2nd: Kunal Sawardekar and J.Ramanand: 100 Jt. 2nd: Anand Sivashankar and Vibhendu Tiwari: 100 Jt. 4th: B.V.Harishkumar and Arka Bhattacharya: 60 Jt. 4th: Amit Varma and Leslie: 60 6th: Shivaji Marella and Ganesh Hegde: 50 (11 out of 60 questions went unanswered) Quiz Elim Results (in descending order - IIRC) Cutoff: 18/35 Aadisht-Rishi, Shivaji-Ganesh, Ramanand-Kunal, Amit-Leslie, Harish-Arka, Anand-Vibhendu Individual Quiz winner: Suvajit C. Report * It's only fair to say that if you made a list of things that could go wrong at a quiz, a lot of them could be ticked off as having happened at FC on Saturday. This post is going to be a lot about it, I'm afraid. I'm not sure there was really much to salvage from the day. * W...

September 2006 BC Open Quiz Date: 24 Sept, 2006 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Set and Conducted by: Kunal Sawardekar and Kunal Thakar Quiz Final Results (46 questions) 1st: Ganesh Hegde and Shivaji Marella: 80 Jt. 2nd: Shamanth Rao and Salil Bijur: 60 Jt. 2nd: Samrat Sengupta and J. Ramanand: 60 4th: Akhil and Apurva: 40 5th: Meghashyam Shirodkar and Aditya Udas: 35 6th: Harsh Ketkar and Rashmi Vadnagare: 20 (15 out of 46 questions went unanswered) Quiz Elim Results Cutoff: 8/21 Shamanth+Salil topped the elims Newbie quiz by: Abhishek Nagaraj and Salil Bijur Report * Despite suspicions (;-)) of a quiz filled with hard rock quiz and a Bart-Homer jugal-bandii, the questions were quite interesting, and as should be, reflective of the different interests of the quiz-setters. So we did have questions on rock music and Bart Simpson, but we also had questions on politics, dynasties, tech trivia, literature, India and etymology. Though perhaps not a quiz that...

ACES 2006 School Quiz Date: 23 Sept, 2006 Venue : Tilak Smarak Mandir Organised by: Abhinava Vidyalaya, Pune and BCQC Set by: BC quizzers Conducted by: Ramanand Quiz Final Results (56 questions) 1st: D.E.S. Secondary School (Akshay, Deven, Makarand): 130 2nd: Abhinava Vidyalaya (Gautam, Nissim, Neil): 120 3rd: Muktangan (Ruchik, Shantanu, Siddharth): 110 4th: Bishops (Karan, Raghav, Puneeth): 95 5th: S.P.M English (Jaideep, Kaustubh, Abhishek): 85 6th: Symbiosis Secondary (Abhishek, Mihir, Rohit): 60 (9 questions out of 56 were unanswered) Quiz Elim Results (in descending order) Cutoff: 20/30 Abhinava, Muktangan, Symbiosis, Bishops, DES, SPM English (the quiz had a rule that only one team per school could make it to the finals which meant second teams from Abhinava and Symbiosis who scored higher than the cutoff could not make it to stage) Report * This is the first time we've been involved in a school quiz, and approached it with a view to introducing i...

Inquizzition-7 - FC, Pune What : Inquizzition 7, Fergusson College, Pune, OPEN trivia quiz, Teams of 2 Where : Fergusson College, Pune When : Sat, 30 Sept, 11 am Contact : Ulka (9373334274) or Veda (9823747725) / vedaaggarwal at gmail

The QUAINT Report and Awards 2005-06 (Excludes the Interrobang Annual Illustrated Calendar - all the action your imagination can take) This is fairly over-due, so let's plunge into the first "Quizzers of Interrobang/Inquizitive" awards and annual status report. We used to occasionally write out a report on the egroups earlier for the sake of the BC alumni, and so here goes another martyr to the cause of nostalgia. Michael Hussey award for awesome consistency : Kunal Sawardekar walks away with prize into the sunset leaving us dusty and dazed. A phenomenal year in which Kunal won almost everything he took part in - Open quizzes unbroken right from Sept to May (except for April where exams stole him), Quizomania, the local Mahaquizzer tourney and sundry other quizzes. Chakravyuuh eluded him but he'll be back for more. Quite simply the best year I've seen any Pune quizzer have. Michael Hussey would know how he feels Kevin Pietersen prayj for an immigrant with ...

September Open Quiz Date and Time: 24 September, Sunday from 1:00 pm Organised and Conducted by: Kunal Sawardekar and Kunal Thakar Venue: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Bhageerath, Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Pune Flavour: General (with a bias towards popular culture :-)) Team Size: Two per team Contact for info: 9923224475/kunalns[at]gmail Usual notes: We will also try to conduct a newbie quiz as part of the proceedings. If you don't have a partner, that's not a problem - just show up.

Abhivyakti - Open Quiz at MIT Date: 17 Sep, 2006 Set and conducted by: Akshad Viswanathan, Rahul Phadnis, Viraj Phanse, Jay Athalye Results: 1st: Aditya Bidikar & Salil Wagh 2nd: Sujit Adhye & Sushant Bhadkamkar Joint 3rd: Suhas Walanjoo & Kunal Thakar**, Kunal Sawardekar & Abhishek Nagaraj 4th: Ganesh Hegde & Salil Bijur 5th: Gaurav Singh & Aniket Khasgiwale ** The team of Suhas & Kunal was formed after Suhas qualified solo and Kunal was a part of the team that just missed qualifying.

Telecom Grandmasters 2006, SITM Harsh Ketkar & Arnab Pal attended the Telecom Grandmasters Quiz organised by Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management. Here is Harsh's report: Disclaimer: Any resemblance to a cinema awards function is purely coincidental and unintentional. First, the official description: "Telecom GrandMasters 2005 had touched new horizons; Telecom GrandMasters 2006 would be a leap across the horizon. We, at SITM, set the pace for others, we believe in transforming dreams into reality. We have done it time and again and this time by going online for the preliminary round of the event for the second consecutive year. The Final Event in 2005 was graced by presence of Ms. Diana Hayden and Mr. Abhay Deol. TGM 2005 itself was a "grand success", with the team from VIT, Pune bagging the first prize. The celebrities who graced the occasion included Diana Hayden and Abhay Deol." Now, the real one: Over 750 corporate as well as student tea...

Malhar '06 Quizzes A personal report a.k.a why we sometimes need to think about a Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Quizzing And Quizzers .

The Techie Kaun Quizzes at SCIT   Day One: Technology Quiz   Date: 1st Aug Venue: SCIT Audi, Hingewadi.   QM: Suhel Banerjee, Google.   Results: 1st : Rohit Jain + 1 (SIBM) 100 Points 2nd: Siddharth Dani and Rashmi Vadanagare (VIT) 95 Points 3rd: Abhishek Nagaraj and Sudeep Pradhan (COEP) 93 Points   Nature: Technology was a bit of a misnomer. Mostly involved tech-business along with tinges of including movies and politics. QM was innovative and passed the litmus test called Siddharth Dani, who otherwise was in plein forme as far as expletives for people is considered. The best thing was the sense of BC informality to what was quite a big quiz. QM must be commended for saying stuff like "you might want to kill me after this", and then proceeded to give a quite arbit connection involving half-sisters and full monsters. nnovative rounds included using Google Trends (search volumes for specific keywords vs time) and m...

Indian Cinema Quiz at B.J.Medical College * Pretty decent film quiz (belying worries to the contrary) by Kiran and lot at B.J.Medical College, whose quizzing so far has been more famous for Shivaji-Vivek, paper planes and the "Khashaba Jadhav from Kolhapur" performance * Good round structure (era-wise, buzzers, questions on film crews, audio-visuals) * Questions were not obscure (95% at least) and topics were on stuff that a fan would be interested in knowing * Was won by Niranjan and me, while Aditya Pethe and Harish (who was a super-sub!) came 2nd - they did get a couple of tough ones and parried a couple to us ;-). Suvojit and friend were 3rd in a good comeback. Can't remember team 4's names. * Harish's father makes his debut - got some tough ones right later during the final from in the audience * Pretty good organisation - even with the taut and blinding light-buzzers ("buzzer" is probably the wrong term) * As I had expected, it was primaril...

July Open Quiz - Results Details: * July BCQC Open Quiz on 9 July, 2006 * Set and conducted by Meghashyam Shirodkar * Scoring: Infinite Rebounds (10 pts); No Pole Position; Elims winners decide seating order Results (60 questions in the Final): 1st-C: Shamanth Rao and J. Ramanand (100 pts) 2nd-E: Aadisht Khanna and Raj Kamal (85) 3rd-B: Sayak Dasgupta and Suvojit Chakraborty (80) 4th-A: Rishi Iyengar and Udatta Duarah (75) Jt 5th-D: Shivaji Marella and Maitreyi Gupta (70) Jt 5th-F: Niranjan Pedanekar and Gaurav Sabnis (70) Elims results (30 questions): 1st: Ramanand and Shamanth (21.5) 2nd: Sayak and Suvojit (19) 3rd: Rishi and Udatta (18.5 *) 4th: Raj K and Aadisht (18.5) 5th: Niranjan and Gaurav (18) 6th: Maitreyi and Shivaji (16.5) Cutoff: 16.5 Comments and Criticisms : * I didn't like the elims much. Some of the questions like the Jolie, sudoku qns should not have been asked, IMHO. Some of the qns could have been better and more carefully framed. Probab...

Two quizzes There will be two open quizzes in Pune on Sunday (9th July): 1. An Indian films quiz at B.J.Medical College, Pune. Teams of two, open to all, Rs. 40/- entry fee. Time of quiz is 9:30 am 2. General quiz by Meghashyam Shirodkar at the Dewang Mehta Auditorium, "Bhageerath", Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd, Senapati Bapat Road. Teams of two, open to all, likely entry fees (as part of prize money kitty) of Rs. 50/-. Quiz starts at 3 pm.

KQA Mahaquizzer - Pune This is about the KQA's annual quiz Mahaquizzer that is scheduled for the 21st May (Sunday). The Pune round will be held at Rooms 21 and 22, The Institution of Engineers, JM Road, Shivajinagar, Pune. Reporting time at the venue: 9. 30am. You may register for the quiz by sending an email to arul(dot)mani at gmail or to shamanth at gmail, indicating Mahaquizzer - in the subject line (this is for those who havent registered at the May Open in Pune) You are urged to register in advance to avoid alast minute hassles at the venue. Do also pass on the word to other quiz enthusiasts. Details about the quiz (as provided by KQA): The Karnataka Quiz Association will hold the second edition of Mahaquizzer, the annual solo quiz contest, in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Trivandrum, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata and New Delhi on Sunday, 21 May 2006 Mahaquizzer is a written quiz; 150 general questions to be answered in 90 minutes. Prizes will be awarded to the p...

Amnesia 2006 - May Open Quiz - Report and Results Amnesia 2006 - May Open Quiz Date: 14 May, 2006 Set and Conducted: Niranjan Pedanekar Quiz Final Results - 55 questions 1st: Shamanth Rao and Kunal Sawardekar (22) 2nd: B.V.Harishkumar & J. Ramanand (19) 3rd: Samrat Sengupta & Sudarshan Purohit (18) 4th: Anand Sivashankar & Vibhendu Tiwari (12) Jt. 5th: Gaurav Sabnis & Sarika Chuni (7) Jt. 5th: Rishi Iyengar & Rohan Morarka(7) Quiz Elim Results Cutoff: 18/35 1st: B.V.Harishkumar & J. Ramanand (23) 2nd: Samrat & Sudarshan (20.5) 3rd: Gaurav & Sarika(19) 4th: Kunal and Shamanth, Rishi & Rohan, Anand Sivashankar & Vibhendu Tiwari (all 18) Report * Amnesia 2006 was Niranjan's 1st quiz in 5 years after the now-defunct series of Mensa quizzes which were part of local folklore. The usual Niranjan constructs of lateral connects, 10 feet deep entertainment and sci-tech questions, the long questions et al were back :-) * Ther...

The May Open Quiz What: The May Open Quiz By: Niranjan Pedanekar Date: 14th May, 2006 (Sunday) Venue: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Bhageerath, Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune Flavour: General Time to report: 11:45 am Elims begin: 12 pm Team size: Members of two Please try and make it on time - really, there is very little excuse for local quizzers to be late. The earlier we begin in the afternoon, the more convenient it will be for people from out of town. Additionally, we will also conduct the now-regular midstream unseeded quiz for some of our inexperienced participants.

Small Note Dunno if everyone has seen this but Anand has a comphrehensive review of the March Open that he and Vibhendu did up on his blog. He has detailed numerical analysis and personal opinions about each teams showing. Excellent, detailed and precise. Do see.

April Open Quiz - Results Details: * April BCQC Open Quiz on 23 April, 2006 * Set by Sarika Chuni and Gaurav Sabnis; conducted by Gaurav * Scoring: Infinite Rebounds (2 pts); Pole Position bonuses (3/2/1) Results (54 questions in the Final): 1st: Dhoomketu and Naveen Unni (17 pts) Jt. 2nd: B.V. Harishkumar and Samrat Sengupta (16) Jt. 2nd: Salil Bijur and J. Ramanand (16) 4th: Shivaji Marella and Ganesh Hegde (14) 5th: Arnold D'Souza and Shamanth Rao (super-sub for Kunal S :-)) (13) 6th: Kunal Thakar and Anupam Akolkar (12) Elims results (35 questions): 1st: Harish and Samrat (18*) 2nd: Salil and Ramanand (18) 3rd: Dhoomketu and Naveen(?) Cutoff: 14.5 Comments/Criticisms: * Participation numbers seem to be going up - many more new faces this time. More visitors from Bombay, two of whom won the quiz! * Personally felt that the questions weren't completely upto the usual standards of the quiz-setters. Close to half the questions were entertainment related....

April Open Quiz Sarika and Gaurav will be conducting an Open Quiz in Pune this weekend. Details: Date - 23rd April 2006 (Sunday) Time - 10:00 a.m. (finals will end at approx 3 p.m.) Team Size 2 members Venue - Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Bhageerath, Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd, Behind Domino's Pizza, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune Flavour : General Contact for more info : gaurav(dot)sabnis(at)gmail... Update : On the side, an "unseeded quiz" will also be conducted. This is meant for all rookie participants.

Conducted by : Derek O' Brien Date : 9th April, Sun. Location: Sahara Aamby Valley City Results : 1st Place - Goldman Sachs (Bangalore) 2nd Place - UTI Bank (Mumbai) 3rd Place - KPMG (Chennai) Comments: Derek sprung a big surprise by having IR. This itself, added to the fact that he was in full form implementing the 'militaristic' theme fully as General RAMDI(RAMSKI?), parodies and usual leg-pulling made it a fun experience overall. There were of course bad questions(esp. the AVs, which mostly involved muted/beeped out brand names in various unrelated movies/songs) However some questions were nice, and overall the surroundings did help lift up the mood of the average spectator. The drive up to Amby Valley (to use a now obselte term) is quite spectacular to say the least, and it does quite help to have a member of a co-quizzer's family to drive you till there ;-) Also to mention that Dhammo and Dhananjay narrowly missed out on the grand prize, and not...

March Open Quiz Results 1st: Kunal Sawardekar and Niranjan Pedanekar 2nd: Shamanth Rao and Abhishek Nagaraj 3rd: Ganesh Hegde and J. Ramanand Other Finalists: Shivaji Marella+Siddharth Natarajan, Sudarshan Purohit+Salil Bijur, Meghashyam Shirodkar+Aniruddha Kasbekar Comments * Good quiz overall - several new areas explored * Good coverage of sports and films, reflecting interests of the question setters :-) * Some questions were a little too easy, IMO (none came to us - grrr!- except one, which we thought was too easy and hence got bowled through the gate) * Techno-problems could have been avoided * Thanks to the organisers for the prizes and the chocolates * Some newer people spotted participating, including some kids who went on to smash the tough sports questions down the baseline. * As Niranjan already commented, they won narrowly (by 5 points) "thanks to an answer by Kunal that ran 'sub-commandante marcos of EZNL' :-)" * We have had six quizzes s...

- COEP Fervor(sic) Technical Quiz Organized By : Kapeesh Saraf, Aseem Deodhar, Kunal Results : 1. Siddharth and Anupam(VIT) 2. Kunal T and Rashmi (VIT) 3. Kunal S and Arnold (FC + VIT) 4. Abhishek and Vineet (COEP) 5. Akshay Adya and Anay (COEP) 6. Sushant and Neeraj. (COEP) Comments : A tech-trivia quiz, with some funda based questions. Overall decent stuff. Junta who attended, pls put more comments.

Me and a few friends are conducting a technical quiz as part of Fervor 2006. Details follow- Date- Saturday, 11th March 2006. Time- 10.30 a.m. Venue-College of Engg., Shivajinagar, Pune. Dept. of Mechanical engg. Room no. 11 (tentatively) Rules-Teams of two. Only those with a valid college I-card will be allowed to participate. Cross college teams allowed. No registration fees. You can also visit the Fervor website for more details about the event. Amazing prizes to be won. So if you (like me) are one of the generally jobless people who go to quizzes and love trivia, then make sure to be there. Okay, okay... be there even if you're one of the extremely busy and intellectually advanced souls for whom knowledge is an eternal pursuit and quizzing a religion and all that jazz... Or be there just because I'm asking you to come. But be there. This also happens to be my maiden attempt at being a quiz master, so YT is truly excited at the prospects of all the bric...

Chakravyuuh 2006 (COEP) Main Quiz Results 1st: Gaurav Sabnis & Shamanth Rao 2nd: B.V.Harishkumar & J. Ramanand 3rd: Kunal Sawardekar and Shriniwas Kulkarni Other finalists: Niranjan Pedanekar+Sudarshan Purohit, Samrat Sengupta+Siddharth Dani, Aditya Udas+Meghashyam Shirodkar Quiz setters & hosts Abhishek, Vineet, Aniket and all the rest from the COEP Media Quiz Organised by Kapeesh Winner: J. Ramanand Report * The quiz opened differently, with the new look Chakravyuuh round being conducted first. The format was: six questions on six topics ranging from 5 to 15 points based on difficulty levels for each team. Bonus points for other teams if a direct was not answered correctly. An early lead was taken by Harish and me. Later, during the conventional IR rounds, the other teams too pressed on the accelerators turning the quiz into an extremely close fight. The special themes were cracked early by G+S and S+N who went into the lead. K+S and H+me made a late surge...

Abhimanyu 2006 (COEP) Quiz Results 1st: Gaurav Singh (Speciality: Harry Potter stories) 2nd: Aniket (Speciality: Indian Test Cricket Captains) Other finalists: Kapeesh Saraf (Bob Dylan), Kartik Iyer(World War II), Abhishek Nagaraj(Blackadder series), Vineet(Bal Gangadhar Tilak) Quiz setters & hosts Abhishek, Kapeesh, Aniket and all the rest from the COEP Report The GK round held first bunched up the quizzers after a low scoring effort from all, but Gaurav cracked the speciality round 15/15 to sweep the contest and win the 6th edition of the intra-COEP solo quiz. Previous year

The details for Chakravyuh are: Venue : COEP Auditorium. Schedule : 11 a.m.: Abhimanyu finals 12:15 p.m.: Chakravyuh Elims --- Fillers planned--- Latest by 2: Chakravyuh finals Expected to finish by 5. Teams of two. Attractive audience and finals prizes. For more details see: The Chakravyuh Blog or call me, Abhishek at: 98907 26322. Cheers,

Aadisht Khanna, whom you may remeber from such blogs as Maajarly Shadymax Arbit Fundaes , was at the recently concluded IIT-IIM culfest Nihilanth. The following is his report of the quizzes conducted there. General Arrangements : The organisers were extremely professional, and pulled out all the stops for us. Nihilanth teams were each given a room to themselves, instead of being thrown into a dormitory or common room. Five to a room doesn't sound all that great but it much better than the twenty-five to a room funda at Saarang. Other areas where the organisers were helpful: delaying the start of events as far as possible when the IIMB and IITM teams were stuck on a delayed train, and coming up with a non-points quiz when one of the quizmasters cancelled the India Quiz at the last minute. Another good thing is that Nihilanth had an entire venue to itself, so no interruptions from other events. Grub and Coffee at the mess were also Landmark Quiz Bangalore level (by which I mean ...

Quiz-O-Mania 2006 Results & Comments Results 1st: Kunal Sawardekar and Shamanth Rao 2nd: Niranjan Pedanekar and Sudarshan Purohit 3rd: Gaurav Sabnis and Ganesh Hegde Other finalists: J. Ramanand and B.V.Harishkumar, Meghashyam Shirodkar and Aditya Udas, Abhishek Nagaraj and Shriniwas Kulkarni Quiz organised and conducted by : VIT (Anupam-Kunal Thakar-Salil-Siddharth) Report and Comments * Kunal and Shamanth creamed the opposition in this quiz by a whopping margin - Niranjan and Sud made a good late comeback to snap up 2nd spot * Must say that the poor auditorium facilities ruined any viewing pleasure for audience and participants - it made good questions feel ok and bad questions terrible * A little disappointed overall with the questions - a lot of repeats/known trivia * A few excellent questions, but drowned in the cacophony - Nepal massacre, Asterix-Tour de France, Schengen visa etc. come to mind * Avoidable snafus meant that last year's effort outshone this ...

BCQC - Maharashtra Herald article Another article on the BCQC (please note new URL!), this time in the Maharashtra Herald . Click on the image above to enlarge (it is a little big). (Thanks to some of the dads involved in the operation :-) ) Previous features: * The Indian Express * Pune Times of India

Wing Commander Mulky no more One of the founders of the KQA and well-known quizzer Wing Commander Mulky passed away on Saturday. Dharmendra has this personal tribute to him.

A few Surmises on the 'Steal' Variation Just for completeness, here is stated the steal variation on IR (introduced by Brijesh): Passing is as per normal IR order. Before the team on the direct answers, any other team might intrude and get points (+ve and -ve) as per the correctness of their response. These teams are thereby omitted from the regular passing order. Those teams who have not 'stolen' in this way, can continue as normal. At the two instances that this has been tried out the scoring rule was : +10/-10 Why I Like it: As said before, the closer a system is to written elims, the fairer it is. True in this case. Rewards people for surety of answers. Independent of passing order, length of passing chain etc. Teams blame only themselves for knowing the answers and not answering, other than the standard(pls. pardon) 'i-knew-it-but-never-came-to-us' routine. Why I Don't Like it: A great burden on the precious time of quizzers ...

QUIZ-O-MANIA 2006 Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT), Pune is organising the 5th edition of its annual quiz QUIZ-O-MANIA this weekend. This year a music quiz will be held along with the general quiz. QUIZ-O-Mania, the Open General Quiz Date: 4th Feb 2006 (Saturday) Time: Registrations begin at 12.00pm. Elims at 1.00pm Teams of 2, Entry open to all Venue: VIT Auditorium Open Music Quiz All types of music genre will be covered. Date: 5th Feb 2006 (Sunday) Time: Registrations begin at 10.00am. Elims at 11.00am Teams of 3, Entry open to all Venue: VIT Auditorium Both quizzes have a total prize of Rs.20,000 including cash. Exciting audience prizes. Snacks will be provided to all finalists. How to get there: http://www.vit.edu/location .htm Contact for details: Salil - 9823112258 Kunal - 9890180692 Siddharth - 9422501573

Firstly apologies for not sticking to the new testament of quiz announcements. Here are the courte details for the regulars : Date : 25th Feb. Day : Saturday Venue : COEP Amphi. Time : Registrations begin 10 am. Note : also watch out for lone-wolf media quiz and Abhimanyu. Please visit : Chakravyuh Blog for full details. Cheers, Abhishek PS : Also thought - please check out beta version of BCQC website .

Wall Street 2005 - Business & Economics Quiz Quiz set and conducted by: Kunal Sawardekar Results: 1st: Prakash + 1 (SCMHRD) 2nd: Anupam Akolkar + Salil Bijur (VIT) Joint 3rd: Kunal Thakar + Anand Ayyadurai (VIT) & Harsh Ketkar + Arnab Pal (VIT) 5th: Siddharth Dani (VIT) & Abhishek Nagaraj (COEP) 6th: Symbiosis

IMS Quotient Results: 1st: Fergusson: Kunal Sawardekar, Puranjay Parchure, Rachana 2nd: VIT (1): Harsh Ketkar, Rashmi Vadanagare, Nilay Puntambekar Also: Symbiosis Law, VIT (2), Sinhagad COE, Wadia This was the Pune leg of the IMS Quotient (IQ) Quiz. The winners go to Delhi for the grand final on 14th Feb. More details here . QM: Charanpreet Singh Comments: {Will be put up soon.}

Chakravyuh now has it's own blog / website. Check it out at chakravyuh.wordpress.com Note that details regarding exact dates etc. are yet to be made clear. Please comment if 25th of Feb, Saturday would be convenient. Cheers,

January 2006 - Open Quiz Results 1st: Kunal Sawardekar, Sudarshan, Kunal Thakar 2nd: Niranjan, Pradeep Ramarathnam, Ramanand 3rd: not sure Others: Salil-Arnab-Bharath, Vibhendu-Balaji-Puranjay, Harish-Sirisha, Anand-Srikant-Harsh, Abhishek-Brijesh-Siddharth, Ganesh-Aniruddh-Arun Important Update The quiz has been advanced to 14 Jan, Saturday. Venue: COEP's Boat Club. Time: 1 pm. Date 15th January, Sunday Time 2 pm Venue The Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune Flavour General To be conducted by Shamanth Rao Structure Teams of 2, written elims, eight teams in the final Contact info 98810-00957

A checklist while organising quizzes After a couple of recent quizzes where some basic concepts were found to be lacking, here are a list of things that have come out of our collective experience of attending and setting quizzes. If there are any additions/corrections, please leave them in the comments. Announcements Set the correct expectations for the quiz. Clearly mention the nature of the quiz if there are themes involved. It's better to have a small group of interested participants rather than a crowd of disgruntled hangers-on who thought there would be "free pizza, man!" Mention the following points: Expected team size Location (with directions if required) Starting time and expected duration Registration if required (most good quizzes don't need prior registration and actually find it more convenient that way - on the spots are preferred) Any criteria to be satisfied Contact information Who is/are organising and conducting the quiz (if ...