Interrobang

There was a huge turnout of participants and viewers and the QM said that it was probably the toughest round of TC 2008. Nice set of elims. As usual, the elims were followed by the finals of the Tata track which had a few 'firsts'. Arnab B from TIFR qualified for the finals; probably the first all-woman team in TC finals from TCS consisted of Abha Shah and Sowmya, who is Arnab's wife. In fact, Arnab and Sowmya's daughter accompanied them on to the stage and took turns in sitting with the TCS and TIFR teams! The team from TAL which had the two members boasting of a 'cumulative experience of 4 finals of the Crucible, Pune edition' were consistent through the rounds and eventually won. TCS came second. The non-Tata track finals was also quite interesting. Vasu's team stood 7th in the elims and just missed out qualifying on a tie-break question. The finalists were Infosys (Jay +1), ZS Associates, BMC Software (Harish + Shubhadeep), Kotak Mahindra (Samrat and A...

The next quiz in the Theme League will be taking place this Sunday , the 10th of August, at 1:30 pm at the Boat Club lawns , College of Engineering , Pune. Details : The Quiz will be a Science and Technology quiz set by Mohit Karve. It's an Open quiz and anyone's allowed to take part. Quiz will start with a written elims (so get a pen /pencil / quill/ other writing instrument). The top 10 participants will be divided into 5 teams and the others will be randomly distributed to the five teams (these people will get only half the points though). In case of any queries mail us : contact(at)bcqc(dot)org Update: see the Theme League homepage for details. Comments on that page only.

Report for BCQC's annual school quiz 'The Interrogative' written by QM Maitreyi Gupta. The BCQC’s annual school quiz The second year of The Interrogative saw more than 80 teams from 18 schools around the city. The results as follows: (Finals rank: School (Team members): finals score: elims score (stars)) 1st: Abhinav Vidyalaya (Rohan Danait, Sanket Bhilare): 115 : 20 (5) 2nd: Vikhe Patil (Amol Joshi, Omkar Dhakephalkar): 105: 18 (5) 3rd: Symbiosis Secondary (Abhishek Pandit, Rushab Bainthia): 90: 20 (5) 4th: Abhinav Vidyalaya (Rohit Sahasrabudhe, Satyavrat Wagle): 80: 17 (6) Joint 5th: St. Mary's Boys (Shatrunjay Mall, Akshay Agarwal): 70: 16 (5) Joint 5th: Bal Shikhan Mandir (Siddharth Khole, Sumedh Kaulgud): 70: 15 (5) 7th: Symbiosis Secondary (Ankur Borwankar, Rohit Telang): 45: 17 (4) 8th: P. Jog High School (Atharva Kunte, Amoghsiddhi Bhandarkar): 20: 16 (5) Special mention: Shreedhar Kale and Maitreya Ghorpade from Symbiosis Secondary School miss...