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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