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We're pleased to announce the next set of open quizzes in May. The details: Date: 4 May, 2008 (Sunday) Venue: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems Limited Quiz 1: "dekho magar pyaar se" - a Visuals-only quiz Theme: General, Visuals Quizmaster: Niranjan Pedanekar Reporting Time: 9:30 am Quiz Time: 9:45 am to 12:30 pm Teams of 2, 6 team finals, no prior registrations needed Prizes for all finalists, best school/college/newbie teams, audience Quiz 2: "Brain Damage" Theme: General Quizmasters: Abhishek Nagarak, Aditya Gadre Reporting Time: 2:15 pm Quiz Time: 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm Teams of 2, 6 team finals, no prior registrations needed Prizes: Winners: Rs. 1500 Landmark GVs 2nd Place : Rs 900 Landmark GVs 3rd Place : Rs 300 Landmark GVs Prizes for all other finalists as well Prizes for the Best school/college/all-ladies teams, Best team name prize, and audience goodies. In addition, there will be a special audience-only quiz (top 3 places...

Set and Conducted by Rohan and Karan Jain, Rouhaan, and others. Results: 1st: B.V.Harish Kumar + J Ramanand (B) : 120 pts 2nd: Pradeep Ramaratnam + Amit Pandeya (D): 110 pts 3rd: Salil Bijur + Venkat S (E): 80 pts Jt. 4th: Niranjan Pedanekar + Yash Tamaskar : 70 pts Jt. 4th: Amit Garde + Samrat Sengupta : 70 pts 6th: Akhil + Apoorva : 60 pts Report (also see comments) The Rotaract Club of Poona organised the second edition of their Open quiz, once again at the Ladies Club. The weather was a little inhospitable for quizzing, in contrast to the nicely organised event. Participants were well looked after (except for some chip-less munks), which made up for any shortcomings in the actual quiz. The finals were led by Salil and the Hoosier Cat but they hit a brickwall exactly after the half-way stage. This is when the visitors from Bombay picked up steam to remain in the lead right upto the last five questions. They lost the lead exactly once and unfortunately for them, the quiz ended ...

Several of my fellow quizzers are massive sports fans with a 'citius altius fortius' complex, so I'm sure they would have wished they could participate in BBC's new "Sport Mastermind" . Perhaps we should do a home-made Sport Mastermind at, well, home, just to make them feel better. Though going by precedent, we'll have topics such as World Cup football and World Cup cricket and the racing career of a part-time footballer :-).

Date: 02 April, 2008 Venue: IIPM Tower, ICC Tower Set by: Students of IIPM, Pune Conducted by: Meghashyam Shirodkar Theme: Business and General, College quiz Quiz Final Results 1st: SIBM 2nd: Symbiosis Law School 3rd: AISSMS Other Finalists: SIBM-2, ICTM, SCOE Link: Report in the Indian Express .

Aditya Bhedasgaonkar blogs charmingly about Abhimanyu. He has a picture there too for you to put faces to names. Here you go.

(Also see this report) A decent turn-out for the quiz (27 teams). Good to see many new faces and some old stalwarts like Amit Garde and Manish Manke. Just like my last year's quiz, the top three spots were decided in the last few questions, it was exciting to watch with top positions changing intermittently. Amit Garde was in great form, as he with some able support from Aditya and Kaustubh managed to just edge out the other two strong teams marshalled by Ramanand and Niranjan. The other teams also had their moments answering some tough questions. The audience interaction was enjoyable, with our extra finances resulting in some good prizes for them. Also I noticed that the audience was more enthused by the special rounds, than the normal IR rounds. Another aspect was that the quiz went off quite peacefully, with no acrimony among the teams or with the quizmaster :), a welcome trend after a few arguments etc in previous quizzes. One drawback from my side was the intermittent ...

Date: 5th Apr 2008 Venue: Telco Colony, Tata Motors General Quiz Set and Conducted by Vinay N. Format:18 on IR; 6 on D&P; 6 non-passing identify-in-3-clues; 6 on D&P Results: 1st: Prasann Potdar and Amit Pandeya (D): 80 2nd: Salil Bijur and Nirad Inamdar (C): 70 3rd: Saransh Verma and Karan Chawla (B): 65 4th: Abhishek Nagaraj and Aniket Khasgiwale (A): 55 5th: Aditya Sharma and Anirudh Lamba (F): 40 6th: Sirisha and B.V. Harish Kumar (E): 30 Business Quiz Set and Conducted by Vinay N. Format:IR and D&P rounds, a 'betting round' (need clarification on this) and a D&P round connecting to a theme Results: 1st: Prasann Potdar and Amit Pandeya (D): 100 2nd: Vishal Kelkar and Saurabh Goel (B): 95 3rd: Nikhil Motlag and Ramakrishnan Sridhar (B): 50 4th: Abhishek Nagaraj and Weena (C): 30 Joint 5th: Anubhav Chatterjee and Vijay Krishna C.V. (A): 20 Joint 5th: Yash Tamaskar and Siddharth Cavale (A): 20

Set and Conducted by Samrat Sengupta. Results: 1st: Amit Garde , Kaustubh Bhat and Aditya Gadre : 94pts 2nd: J Ramanand , Abhishek N , Yasho Tamaskar : 86pts 3rd: Niranjan Pedanekar , Suvajit Chakraborty , Salil Bhargava :82pts 4th: Salil Bijur , Aditya Chandorkar and Yash Marathe :70pts 5th: Aniket Khasgiwale , Kapeesh Saraf , Venkat S : 38 pts 6th: Harsh Ketkar , Saransh Verma , Manish Manke :34 pts Elims: Ramanand + Yasho , Niranjan + Suvajit (21pts; started with a 16pt advantage), Aniket + Venkat , Aditya + Amit (19.5pts ; started with 8 pt advantage), Yash M + Aditya C , Harsh + Saransh (17pts) Manish and Salil Bhargava , Salil Bijur and Abhishek N , Kapeesh and Kaustubh were the other 3 teams that qualified and were randomly distributed to the other 6 teams. Elims were quite simple and did the job of separating the top nine 9 teams from the rest. The finals had 5 rounds. Three were general rounds and 2 were special 'pick your topic' rounds. Most of the questions we...

Date: 30 Mar, 2008 Venue: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSL, Pune Set and Conducted by: Yash Tamaskar, Suvajit Chakraborty Theme: Entertainment, Music, and a little bit of Literature and Arts Quiz Final Results Format: 2 halves of seamless IR, including two theme connects; ~50 questions 1st: Niranjan Pedanekar + J. Ramanand (A) 2nd: Apurva Dubey + Akhil (D) 3rd: Samrat Sengupta + Amit Garde (E) 4th: Salil Bijur + Abhishek Nagaraj (B) ??th: Kaustubh Bhat + Aditya Gadre (F) ??th: Anupam Akolkar + Chintan Shah (C) Scorers : Aadinath Harihar Elims standings (out of 40 questions): Niranjan+Ramanand (19.5), Akhil+Apurva (12.5), Anupam+Chintan (12), Samrat+Amit (11.5), Abhishek+Salil (10.5), Aditya+Kaustubh (10) No. of teams: ~25 Notes : This is an incomplete report because I don't have all the final scores, and some of the standings may be incorrect. Also, the community had much to say about the quiz on the day, so please use the comments to record them. This way, we...

For the Kunal Sawardekar Prize (the prize is named after the best college quizzer of the previous year; next year it will have the name of this year's winner) Date: 29 March, 2008 Venue: the Boat Club, COEP, Pune Set and Conducted by: J. Ramanand (with contributions from Salil Bijur and Anupam Akolkar) Theme: General, Solo Quiz Final Results Format: 2 rounds of 12 dry + 7 audio visuals each; 5 questions in a common play-off format; IR; total: 43 questions Winner: Yash Marathe - Modern College (A) - 75 2nd: Suvajit Chakraborty (D) - Symbiosis Law School - 65 3rd: Abhishek Nagaraj (C) - COEP - 45 4th: Gaurav Singh (F) - COEP - 30 5th: Aniket Khasgiwale (B) - COEP - 25 6th: Yash Tamaskar (E) - COEP - did not trouble the scorers Scorer : Maitreyi Gupta Elims standings (out of 25 questions): Suvajit (14.5), Aniket (14), Abhishek (14), Gaurav (10), both Yash-es (9) No. of participants: 19 Notes : Yash Marathe won a quiz that was alive right upto the last question....

Abhimanyu is the annual intra-COEP solo quizzing event. This year's edition featured eight finalists, was conducted by Niranjan Pedanekar and others, and featured question sets from BC quizzers in and outside the country, making it quite a globalised quiz. A report: Date : 21 Feb, 2008 Organized by : Aniket Khasgiwale Eight finalists qualified through a written elims. The final started with a 20 question GK round set by Meghashyam. This was followed by each participant taking questions on a chosen topic of interest. The result was a very tight quiz, which was decided on the very last question of the event. The Standings (participant, year, score, topic, topic setter) Winner: Abhishek Nagaraj - BE - (17) - XKCD comics - Kunal Thakar Runner-Up: Aditya Gadre - TE - (16) - World Cup Football - Yash Marathe 3rd: Kaustubh Bhat (15) - TE - Iron Maiden - Kunal Sawardekar 4th: Yash Tamaskar (14) - TE - The "Yes Minister/Prime Minister" series - Gaurav Sabnis 5th: Mohit...

Date: April 2, 2008 Another entertaining event by Derek O Brien. The finalists on stage (in alphabetical order) were from BMC Software, Honeywell, Infosys, Savoir Faire, TCS, and ZS Associates. Savoir Faire from Goa had been winning the Pune round of BEQ for the last two years and were hot favourites to win again. The team from TCS, Ramanathan and Abha (Did I get the names right?) did well to pip them on the tie-breaker question by answering Roshogollas to "What is K C Das credited with inventing?" . The theme of this year was how quizzing has evolved in India over the years. There were mentions of Siddharth basu and even the cover of Mastermind 5 (but sadly, no mention of the winner of Mastermind 5 who hails from Pune) The rounds and the representation of the scores were also in line with the year that was being commemorated. The highlight for me was to listen to the audio clip of Ameen Sayani hosting the BQC on Radio. Jug and Bunny Suraiya were also present. TCS, the l...