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Indian Cinema Open Quiz - B.J.Medical College The QUIZ CLUB , B. J. Medical College, and ANUNAD, Pune are organising an Open quiz on Indian Cinema. Date: Sunday, 18th FEBRUARY Timing: 10 am (tentative) Venue: B. J. Medical College, Pune Contact: Snehal - 9822326699, Kiran - 9881678946 Report from last year's quiz .

BCQC Website down for maintenance The BCQC website is currently down for some maintenance activities. Please don't be surprised at the website having gone "dry"! This blog will be our official refuge for a while.

Landmark Pune Quiz 2007 - Report Date: 26 Jan, 2007 (Friday) Venue : Nehru Memorial Hall Conducted by: Derek O'Brien Open Quiz Final Results 1st: Anand Sivashankar, Meghashyam Shirodkar, Vibhendu Tiwari 2nd: Kunal Sawardekar, J. Ramanand, Shamanth Rao 3rd: Mitesh Agarwal + 2 4th: Aadisht Khanna, Amit Varma, Rishi Iyengar Other finalists: SAP (Bangalore), NDA (Pune), B.V.Harishkumar+Srivatsa Subbanna+Gaurav Parab, Ashwan+Hanisha+Vikram Joshi Best Corporate Teams 1st: Pinstorm (Mumbai), 2nd: SAP (Bangalore) Best School Teams 1st: ?, 2nd: Muktangan, 3rd: St. Marys Quizzer of the Year Ramanand (Other finalists: Mitesh, Anand S, Rishi, NDA representative, and SAP representative) Best Team Name "Vaanar Brothers" (Anand, Meghashyam, Vibhendu) Report * Expectedly, most of the questions could be tagged by one of the following adjectives: irritating, entertaining but pointless, multiple-choice, mouth-hanging-low-at-audacity, tired, take-choice-from-a-set. ...

Quiz-O-Mania 2007 Details: Date: 3rd Feb 2007 (Saturday) Venue: Main Auditorium, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune Time: Elims begin at 1.30pm sharp Team strength: 2 people Entry fee: Rs. 40 per team. 6 teams qualify for the finals. Quiz Masters: Arnab Pal ( 98904 54353) and Harsh Ketkar (98813 79417) There are many 1-round topic-specific quizzes like Harry Potter, Friends, LOTR, Sports, Literature, etc that will take place throughout the day at VIT's 3-day literary festival, Epiphany (2nd, 3rd and 4th feb.) *All quizzes are open to everyone* All the quizzes will happen at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, 666, Upper Indiranagar, Bibwewadi, Pune- 411 037. How to get there: http://www.vit.edu/reach.htm Prizes worth Rs 20,000 to be won. Previous editions of Quiz-O-Mania: 2004 , 2005 , 2006

The Landmark Pune Quiz - 2007 Landmark Pune are organising a quiz on the evening of 26th of January, 2007 at Nehru Memorial Hall. (Click poster for contact details). Details : * Teams of upto 3 members. * Venue: Nehru Memorial Hall, Camp, Pune * 26th of January 2007, 3pm. * Quizmaster: Derek O'Brien * Prizes - First place –Rs. 30000 - Second place – Rs. 15000 - Third place – Rs. 9000 - Best corporate team – Rs. 6000 - Best team name – Rs. 3000 - Best school team – Rs. 6000(students of upto class 12 are eligible) - Best school team runner up – Rs. 3000(students of upto class 12 are eligible) - Quizzer of the year – Rs. 5000 - Plus attractive audience prizes. * Registration needs to be done in advance. The organizers will be assigning seats, and so it is recommended that you register early so as to avoid last minute crowding. * To register, walk into Landmark (Next to Dorabjee's), Moledina Road, Camp, Pune anytime before the 26th of Janua...

IMS Quotient 2007 Date: 13th Jan 2007 QM: Charanpreet Singh Results: 1st: Symbiosis Law: Suvajit Chakraborty, Sayak Dasgupta, Abhishek Ray 2nd: Symbiosis Law: Manas Panda, Sayan Ray, Sridip Sural Jt. 3rd: Garware and COEP 5th: Fergusson College 6th: AFMC Previous edition of IMS Quotient

BCQC in Indian Express, Pune A news article featuring BC Quizzers that appeared on 9 Jan, 2007 .

BC quizzers at Mood Indigo 2006 Some key results: General Quiz: 1st (Kunal Sawardekar + J. Ramanand), Semi-finalists: Abhishek Nagaraj + Maitreyi Gupta Indian MELA Quiz: 1st (Abhishek Nagaraj + J. Ramanand), Finalist: Suvojit Chakraborty IMS Quiz: 1st (Suvojit Chakraborty + Kaustubh Bhat) Sports Quiz: 1st (Abhishek Nagaraj + J. Ramanand)

January 2006 BC Regular Open Quiz - Report Date: 7 Jan, 2007 (Sunday) Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Set and Conducted by: Gaurav Sabnis Quiz Final Results (50 questions, Modified IR with reversals from F, 2 pts for correct answers) 1st: Niranjan Pedanekar, J. Ramanand, Meghashyam Shirodkar (A): 21 2nd: Anand Sivashankar, Vibhendu Tiwari, Ganesh Hegde (E): 19 3rd: Sudarshan Purohit, Amit Garde, Shivaji Marella (B): 18 4th: Amit Varma, Rishi Iyengar, Kunal Sawardekar (C): 17 5th: Shamanth Rao, Salil Bijur, Abhishek Nagaraj (D): 11 6th: B.V.Harishkumar, D. Dharmendra, Arnold D'Souza (F): 8 (4 out of 50 questions went unanswered) Quiz Elim Results (out of 30 questions) First 6 Teams cutoff: 13 (in order) Anand-Vibhendu (17), Shamanth-Salil (16), Ramanand-Niranjan (15), Amit Garde-Sudarshan (14), Amit Varma-Rishi and Harish-Dhammo (13) next 3 cutoff: 9 (in order) Kunal S-Arnold(12), Meghashyam-Abhishek (11.5), Ganesh-Shivaji (9) BC Theme Attic Quiz: ...

January 2007 BC Open Colleges Quiz - Report Date: 7 Jan, 2007 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Colleges Quiz Set and Conducted by: Apurva Dubey, Akhil Quiz Final Results (56 questions) 1st: Abhishek Nagaraj (COEP), Sayak Dasgupta, Suvajit Chakraborty (both Symbiosis Law)- 135 2nd: Maitreyi Gupta, Harshwardhan Ketkar (both VIT), Kapeesh Saraf (COEP) - 90 3rd: Shyam Jade, Mihir Mulay (IIT Bombay) - 55 Other Finalists: (Gaurav Singh, Aniket Khasgiwale, Kaustubh Bhat (all COEP)), (Nikhil Motlag, Avaneendra Bhargav (AISSMS COE)), (Tanmay Inamdar (SPBJ college of science), Siddharth Gokhale (BMCC), Ashwin Shankar (A.B.Garware College)), (Pranit Saxena, T.L.Ramaswami, Manu Sebastian (Symbiosis Law)), (Ritoban Sengupta, Soumo Chaudhury, Subhodeep Jash (Symbiosis Law)) School Finalists: (Sarvesh Deshmukh, Viraj Bathe, Aditya Joshi (SPM English)), Jaideep Mehendale, Ameya Karambelkar, Kaustubh Deshpande (SPM English)) Report * The quiz was attended by about 15 teams (abo...