BCQC July Open

Set by : Sumant Srivathsan, Rajiv Rai, Avinash Mudaliar (Bombay Quiz Club)
Conducted By : Sumant

Results:
1st: J Ramanand and Suvajit Chakraborty : 53 pts
2nd: Vibhendu Tiwari and Sarat Rao :48pts
3rd: Kunal Sawardekar and Aditya Gadre :47 pts
4th: Amit Garde and Anand Sivashankar :43 pts
5th: Bikash and Roshith :17pts
6th:Arnold D'souza + Saransh Verma : 16pts

Format: 48 seamless IR , 4 mini-themes of 3 questions each , one long connect and one written round.
Elims cut-off: 16.5pts

The quiz was very good to say the least.The elims were very all very well framed , interesting questions .In the finals all the questions were excellent , most of them were workable and not obscure. It was nice to see the heavy use of audio-visuals in the quiz. Sumant did a great job of conducting the quiz.
Another good thing about this quiz was the length. I loved the fact that this quiz was not wrapped up in a hurry and none of the teams were pressurised into answering quickly. The whole thing was conducted at a very relaxed pace which ,in my humble opinion, goes a great way in making the quiz fun.
Ramanand and Suvajit put in a great performance to win this extremely closely fought quiz with barely 3 questions separating the first four teams.

Please give us your views on the quiz in the comments section. Any comments , opinions or suggestions are welcome.

BCQC July Open Quizzes

Quiz 1: “The Interrogative” School Quiz – 2008 Edition

Date 27th July, 2008 (Sunday)
Time 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (reporting time: 9:00 a.m.)
Venue Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Bhageerath, Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd. (Behind Dominos Pizza), Senapati Bapat Road, Pune – 16
Flavour General
Teams Two members per team (from Class VII to X); Teammates can be from different classes
Conducted by Maitreyi Gupta, Yash Marathe, Rohit Khaladkar

Prizes
* All finalists will receive prizes and certificates; Winners will also receive a trophy each; Audience prizes
* The school contingent with the best performance will receive a “Best School” trophy.
* Prizes worth a total of Rs.12,000/-
* The prizes are co-sponsored by Landmark, Pune.

How to register
Prior registrations are required, though some on-the-spot registrations can be accepted. Schools have been sent invitation letters. Interested participants are requested to contact their principal/teacher-in-charge. If your school has not received an invitation, please get in touch with us to register directly.

The last day for registrations is Friday, 25th July, 2008.

* Registrations can be done over the phone or by email:
- Phone: J Ramanand: 97642 58560 / Salil Bijur: 98231 12258 / Maitreyi Gupta: 98224 77068
- Email: contact@bcqc.org (with a copy to ramanand@gmail.com, salilb@gmail.com, maitreyigupta@gmail.com)
* Required Details:
- Names and Classes of the participants
- Contact details of a Teacher-in-charge.
* There is no registration fee. All participants are requested to carry their School I-Cards. Participants are requested not to carry food or beverages to the venue. Parents and teachers are also welcome to come and watch the quiz.

Quiz 2: Open General Quiz

Date 27th July, 2008 (Sunday)
Time 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (reporting time: 2:15 p.m.)
Venue Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Bhageerath, Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd. (Behind Dominos Pizza), Senapati Bapat Road, Pune – 16
Flavour General
Team Size Two members per team
Conducted by Sumant Srivathsan (Bombay Quiz Club)

Prizes For all finalists, audience prizes, best school and college teams
Co-Sponsor Landmark, Pune

Contact
Phone: J Ramanand: 97642 58560 / Salil Bijur: 98231 12258
Email: contact@bcqc.org

Entry is free for all quizzes. The afternoon quiz needs no prior registration.

Encyclo-media

Amit Varma was kind enough to pick up some fragments of mine for an interesting article on quizzing. Serious quizzing still remains very niche, a masonic sub-culture of sorts, but it takes a quiz-geek to know there are three ways of looking at every intersection, even if it only seems to be a straight road.

Anyway, as Amit mentions in the end of his post, check out Niranjan's primers (1, 2, 3.) on setting quizzes (to which I've made a small contribution). Perhaps they need a little touching-up, but they're perennially relevant.

In other news, a certain Salil Bijur catapulted into top spot in the rankings of the local BCQC Page 3 Quizzers League given his recent appearance in this pub quiz (scroll past the large expanses of skin to the bottom - I must admit that doesn't sound very decent). It didn't go all according to plan since he missed the question on the country with the oldest flag (Denmark), a sitter if there ever was. Too bad they weren't serving chestnuts with the drinks :-)