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(This announcement is for the college quizzers of Pune) We'll be conducting a quiz meant exclusively for all Pune college quizzers. Details: Who can participate: Any (full time) college student from a Pune college. 11th standard onwards. When: tentatively scheduled for 29th March (Saturday). Time: 9:30 am What: A general quiz. Written eliminations (30 mins), Finals (~2 hours). This is a solo quiz. Venue: BC Lawns, COEP Further logistical details will follow later. The quiz is aimed at encouraging college quizzers in the city, so we aren't inviting entries from outside. Also, the quiz is meant for young student quizzers, so we will not be able to accomodate part-time students or professional quizzers with an identity card :-) At any rate, we don't want to get into all that! What you need to do if you are eligible and interested: 1. Register by sending me (and only me) your name, your college's name, what you study (leave a comment with your email id and I'll...

Announcement - March Open BC Quizzes The Boat Club Quiz Club is organising two quizzes on Sunday, 30th March 2008. Entry is free. Venue: Dewang Mehta auditorium, Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune-16 (see this link for directions ) Preliminary Details: Quiz 1: The "LAME" quiz - Entertainment quiz Time: 9.45 am to 12.30 pm; reporting at 9.30 am Teams of 2, 6 teams in the final. QMs: Yash Tamaskar and Suvajit Chakraborty No prior registration. Prizes for all finalists, as well as for best school, college teams and audience prizes. Quiz 2: Open General Quiz Time: 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm, reporting at 2:15 pm Teams of 2, 6 teams in the final. QMs: Samrat Sengupta No prior registration needed. Open to all. Prizes for all finalists; Prizes for best all-school, all-college, and newbie teams as well as for audience All prizes sponsored by Landmark, Pune Contact: Email: contact (at) bcqc (dot) org Keep visiting http://bcqc.org for ...

Set and Conducted by Amit Dandekar Results: 1st: Abhishek Nagaraj and Aditya Gadre 2nd: Suvajit Chakraborty and Yash Marathe 3rd: Aniket Khasgiwale and Yasho Tamaskar 4th:Rohit Khaladkar and Aditya Kulkarni 5th: Swanand Gadgil and Abhishek Khandelwal 6th: Bharat Marathe and Samir Deshpande The quiz started with a 40 question ,fairly simple elim. This time however there were no ridiculously easy questions and the elims were quite good . The cut off was 20. The quiz was quite enjoyable and well set. The main quiz consisted of 60 questions , seamless IR. The quiz had quite a few very easy questions , some chestnuts and some good questions. The quiz setters cannot be blamed for the chestnuts since their effort with making the quiz was apparent. It all evened out in the end so no complaints about the questions as such. They were better than what we see in most college quizzes. There was a bit of confusion and indecision with regards to part marking for some of the questions ...

Hello. Nice to know that you are organising a quiz. We would just like to inform you that every last one of us is genetically pre-programmed to chase you down and tear you to bits if you ask that question about how Led Zeppelin were named. We just thought, that we should ask you to inform your loved ones and watch all the movies on your "100 movies before I die list" before you ask this question. Regards, Abhishek Nagaraj for the BCQC PS : More intolerance

Quiz was set and conducted by Keyur Munot Results: 1st : Suvajit C and Sayak Dasgupta :190 2nd: Abhishek Nagaraj and Aditya Gadre : 170 3rd: Yasho Tamaskar and Aniket Khasgiwale :125 Other finalists : Karan Chawla and Saransh Varma , Siddharth and Kaushik and one team from MIT Quiz had 6 rounds. The first round was 12 questions of IR. The next rounds were all D&P (+20 , +10). The other rounds included a 'Frame the Question ' round , Speciality round, 2 general rounds and a buzzer round. The flaws of D&P came to the forefront in this quiz with the outcome largely dependent on seating position and luck. There was a very skewed number of attempts and inspite of the top three answering about the same number of questions there was a vast difference in points. The questions were mostly good. Some were chestnuts while some were simply bad , very easy questions. The organisation was distinctly better this time as were the questions. There were no controversies as to the ...

Set and Conducted by Karan. Results: 1st: Abhishek Nagaraj and Aditya Gadre : 110 pts 2nd: Aniket Khasgiwale and Yasho Tamaskar : 70 pts 3rd: Saransh Verma and Maulik Patel : 60 pts 4th: Siddharth and Kaushik : 40 pts 5th: Yash Marathe and Vipul : 20 pts 6th: Aditya and Karan : 15 pts

Ganesh , former BC regular, reopens his blog with a post on quizzing .