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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...