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BC quizzing overseas - Season Opener Quiz at Georgia Tech 2007 Nupur, active quizzer at the BC lawns during her undergrad stint at COEP, conducted a quiz for her friends at Georgia Tech. A report. Date: 17th Feb, 2007 Venue: Georgia Tech's College of Computing Building Conducted by: Nupur Dave Winners: Bharat Jayakumar, Deeparnab Chakraborty, and Gaurav Bhatia. Report * I started the QC innings at gatech with a mixed bag. Questions were made, BCQC style, very workable. * Well received quiz. Great turnout. * Not a lot of people have heard about the BCQC so this was a good method to get them introduced to it. * About the quizzers who attended. Bharat Jayakumar, perusing a PhD at gatech, was the winner of the 2004 International UK vs India, University challenge. Deeparnab Chakroborty (PhD CS gatech) is also an excellent and avid quizzer from IITB. There seem to be a good pool of quizzers at gatech and with word getting around, I am sure the gatech quiz club will be ga...

Indian Cinema Quiz at B.J.Medical College - Report Date: 18 Feb, 2007 (Sunday) Venue : B J Medical College, Pune Quiz set by: Kiran, Snehal, and friends 1st: Niranjan + Ramanand 2nd: Phani Babu + B. V. Harish Kumar 3rd: Safal + Satyanshu 4th: Sameer + Anand Report * Like last time , had an enjoyable time at the cinema quiz * Was completely Hindi-cinema oriented this time * Criticisms: many qns were too easy, and lifted from the Penguin Indian Cinema quizbook * Interesting aspects: they have a very different format (with lots of buzzer questions, elims with -ve marking etc.) which forces teams to react differently * Harish and his dad (making his debut on stage!) were off to a good and early lead. Safal and Satyanshu had one dream round where they got all 4 buzzer questions set in the era 71-85, though some of it was due to some strategic buzzing. Niranjan and I made up in the exclusively-buzzer round (we had a missed a few earlier, which given the easiness of quest...

India Quiz at Silhouettes 2007 - Report Date: 17 Feb, 2007 (Saturday) Venue : AFMC, Pune Quiz set by: Anand Misra 1st: Sajith Surendran + Nitin Arun Dikshit (AFMC) 2nd: Shamanth Rao + Salil Bijur 3rd: Ganesh Hegde + Suvojit Chakraborty (substituted by Samrat Sengupta) 4th: Safal Muhammad + Vivek Mathew (AFMC) 5th: Pallavi Rautrey + Junaira Rahman (SSLC) 6th: Prashant Singh + A.K. Gupta (CME)

Quiz-O-Mania 2007 - Report Date: 3 Feb, 2007 (Saturday) Venue : VIT, Pune Quiz set by: Harsh Ketkar, Arnab Pal, Rashmi Vadnagare 1st: Shivaji Marella + Kunal Sawardekar (90) 2nd: Meghashyam Shirodkar + Abhishek Nagaraj (80) 3rd: Vibhendu Tewari + AP Alagarsamy (70) 4th: Ganesh Hegde + Salil Bijur (40) 5th: J. Ramanand + B.V. Harish Kumar (30) 6th: Niranjan Pedanekar + Samrat Sengupta (20) Report * Excellent elims with emphasis on business questions * Finals were mixed: on the -ve side, there were some vague "connects", easy questions answered on the first attempt, questions that could have been framed better. On the +ve side, there were some nice questions that were very well-framed. * Finalists outnumbered the audience members :-) * Given the mad scramble for last spot, a new term for the wooden spoon was coined by Samrat sir (whose team fittingly won it!): the Laal LoTaa (see Lanterne Rouge ) :-)

Shyam Bhat Memorial Quiz 2007 - Report Date: 15 Feb, 2007 (Saturday) Venue : AFMC, Pune Quiz conducted by: Safal Mohammad and Vivek Philip 1st: Shamanth Rao + Kunal Sawardekar 2nd: Sayak Dasgupta + Abhishek Ray 3rd: Shivaji Marella + Amit Koregaonkar 4th: Cadet Nishant Karol + Cadet Pulkit Dewan 5th: Uday Mehta + Karan Rampal 6th: Salil Bijur + Suvajit Chakraborty

Business and Entertainment Quiz at Silhouettes 2007 Venue: Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. Conducted by: Safal Mohammad Winners : Sayak Dasgupta and Abhishek Ray [Symbiosis Society's Law College (SSLC)] Runners-up : Suvajit Chakraborty and Subhodeep Jash (SSLC) Second Runners-up : Nikhil Shriram and Abhilash Chander (SSLC) Also : Vivek Philip+1 (AFMC), Kunal Sawardekar (Pune Univ) and Arnab Pal (VIT), Nikhil Motlag and Avaneendra Bhargav (AISSMS CoE). Comments: - Although the elims had a good mix, the finals had only ten business questions, compared to fifty ent questions. - Symbi Law swept this quiz, taking the first three places, putting up, as they say, a jolly good show. - Although the questions were overall quite decent (with the customary AFMC focus on fundae rather than workability), there were a bunch of peters and rather simple questions (eg a question that was very suspiciously similar to one asked in Quiz-o-mania 05, and another that asked us to identify the...

As a perpetual also-ran in the finals(and non-qualifier) of numerous quizzes, I have always deeply felt for the 4th,5th and 6th teams who despite qualifying get nothing out of the tons of money the organizers have on offer. An audience member who answers a stupid question could end up with much more than the team which came 4th. Case in point Landmark, where everyone(including that hindi-poet guy) except teams 4,5,6 went home without anything. (That's probably better that the CD of #1 Their Greatest Hits Chapter. 2 - includes super hit tracks Channa Vey, Kabhi, Duur, Tanha Dil, Maaeri, Chhod do Aanchal that I got.) That however prompted me to put into words this idea I have been toying with for some time now. It's called the 'Pot of Gold System' wherein, the total prize money up for grabs forms a central 'Pot of Gold', and that money is divided into the ratio of scores that the teams get in the finals. A few potential drawbacks are: Loss of 'tension' a...