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Set and conducted by : Yash Marathe and Maitreyi Gupta Format : 25 questions elims on ppt followed by 60 questions on seamless IR 10 of which constituted a theme. Results: 1st : Aniket Khasgiwale and Aditya Gadre : 170 pts 2nd : Salil Bijur and Suraj Menon : 135 pts 3rd : Niranjan Pednekar and Yasho Tamaskar : 115 pts 4th : Dr. Chandorkar and Aditya Chandorkar : 95 pts 5th : Amit Dandekar and Yash Sinha : 40 pts 6th : Rahul and Ashok : 20 pts Positives: - Some really good , workable questions - Good organisation. No major problems , long waiting periods or other events encroaching on the Quiz (like JAM did last year) - Reasonably clear policy on part points - The finger of God didn't show itself. - Nice accessible theme . Another positive about the theme was that it didn't carry too much weightage and thus didn't affect the outcome of the quiz in any way. - Prize money and certificates available very easily. Cribs: - Elims were very simple and had just 25 questio...

The next BCQC Open Quiz Day will be held on Feb 1st (Sunday). The details: Date: 1st February (Sunday) Open for all; no prior registration needed; No entry fees Two member teams Prizes for Best School and College Teams Quiz 1: General Quiz Quizmasters: Suvajit Chakraborty and Yash Marathe Timing: report at 9:30 am, quiz timings: 9:45 am to 12:45 pm Quiz 2: General Quiz Quizmasters: Pradeep Ramarathnam Timing: report at 2:15 pm, quiz timings: 2:30 pm to 6 pm Contact: Phone: Ramanand (97642 58560), Salil (98231 12258) Email: contact(at)bcqc(dot)org http://bcqc.org/?q=feb09 Prizes co-sponsored by Landmark, Pune

Set by :Aditya Gadre with inputs from J Ramanand , BV Harish Kumar ,Abhishek Joshi and PS Sriram . Thanks also to Samrat "Sammy sir " Sengupta for his guidance. Conducted by : Aditya Gadre Results (elims score in brackets): 1st : Aniket Khasgiwale and Yash Marathe : 175 pts (24) 2nd : Gaurav Singh and Kaustubh Bhat : 130pts (16) 3rd : Karan Mann and Aditya Pawar : 95 pts (15.5) 4th : Rohits Chandrachud and Bahulekar : 70 pts (19) 5th : Ranajeet and Chinmay : 50 pts (15) 6th : Saransh Verma and Karan Chawla : 20pts (13) The quiz started 35 question elims which turned out to be a little low scoring. The finals had three parts: 1st Half (28ques IR), half time entertainment (WAGs round written)and the 2nd Half (28 ques IR , reversed) Aniket and Yash started as favourites and led from start to finish with some truly awesome answers. Gaurav Singh and Kaustubh had a good start but a late surge from Aditya and Karan kept a bit of uncertainty in the quiz. Any comments about t...

Quiztronomy- an astronomy themed quiz Brought to you by The CoEP Astronomy Club- in association with the Boat Club Quiz Club. The CoEP AstroClub is hosting a one-of-a-kind event on the quizzing calendar. Quiztronomy is an astronomy themed quiz- the trivia being workable for everyone and not aimed specifically at astronomy enthusiasts. The quiz will consist of written prelims, followed by a six team final. Prizes All finalists will receive prizes and certificates; Winners will also receive a trophy each The school/college contingent with the best performance will receive a "Best Contingent" trophy. This year, we will be awarding prizes worth a total of Rs.10,000/- (inclusive of vouchers) Details: Date: 7th February, 2009 (Saturday) Time: 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (reporting time: 9:00 a.m.) Venue: Main Auditorium, College of Engineering, Pune – 5 Flavour: Astronomy- for everyone Team: Two members per team; Teammates c...

The next Landmark Quiz in Pune is to be held on February 21, 2009 (a Saturday). Note that the Quizmaster will be Dr. Navin Jayakumar who is very well-known for conducting editions of this quiz at other locations (Chennai and now Bangalore). The winner and runner-up teams will qualify for the National Finals on August 15, 2009 at Chennai. Please note that the venue (which has been Nehru Memorial Hall in the past) has not been finalised yet. Update The venue is Ganesh Kala Krida Manch.

The College of Engineering, Pune will be organising a Sports Quiz as a part of 'Zest' , the annual sports meet. Details: The Quiz is open to all engineering students (undergrads only).Cross college teams are allowed. Participants are requested to get their College I cards . Teams of two. Registration fees : Rs 50 per team. Time and Venue : 1pm , Friday the 23rd of January in Room NO 13 , Mechanical Dept. COEP. QM: Aditya Gadre Sample Questions: 1. Connect : Fred the Red and Captain Fear 2. In 1991 , Bertrand Gachot was arrested for attacking a London cab driver with CS gas. What was the impact of this event on sports? 3. Complete the lyrics of this song by Johnny Wakelin "Once there was a battle there (Chor: In Zaire, in Zaire) Hundred thousand people there (Chor: In Zaire, in Zaire) All those people gathered there (Chor: In Zaire, in Zaire To see the ________________________- (Chor: The-e-ere - in Zaire" Answers: 1. Mascots of Manchester United and Tampa Ba...

The next edition of the BCQC's experimental Theme League will be held this Saturday at the Boat Club. Details: Flavour: Western Music Quizmaster: Aditya Gadre Venue: Boat Club , College of Engineering Pune Time: 1:30 pm , Saturday , 17th January 2009. For all those interested: -The quiz will consist of a written round followed by normal passing round . Prelims and Finals if you will. The participants will be put into teams depending on elims score. All participants will be included in the finals . - Please get a pen/pencil/quill /some other writing instrument . Writing will be involved. -Though it isn't mandatory , it'd be nice if you could mail me (aditya(at)bcqc(dot)org> to let me know if you are coming so that I have a rough idea about the number of elim sheets to print. For further details and reviews of past quizzes you can visit the Theme league page on the bcqc website . PS: In case you still have any questions , contact me at 9881101291

BCQC – December 2008 newsletter After his first Grand Slam victory, asked if he was 6"3' tall, his mother replied he was 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4. Name this Olympic champion. Happy New Year , or like some of us like to call it, Happy Great Gregorian Calendar Convention Conspiracy . A cold December saw subdued activity at the BC, but there are a couple of things to mention. Here goes. Quizzes 1. IIT Bombay's Mood Indigo (20-23 Dec) Some of the BCQC College quizzers took part in several quizzes at Mood-I 2008. Most notably, they won both the General Quiz (Aditya Gadre & Suvajit Chakraborty) as well as the Sports Quiz (Aditya Gadre again, this time with Aniket Khasgiwale). 2. BC “Requiem for a Theme” Business Quiz Suvajit conducted the Business Theme quiz as part of "Requiem for a Theme" . A tough elims and a somewhat undercooked final resulted from it. The next set of themes are likely to be on English music, History, and Geography, depending on availabilit...

There are two ways to get hold of the questions from Balls, Ballots, Bollywood : 1. View them on Slideshare at this link , where you may note: a. To download, you will need a (free) Slideshare account b. Some of the conversion to flash isn't very good, with text spilling over to the footer. However, if you are on the page of the presentation, you will see a transcript below that you can read from. 2. Download them from our Google Sites link (may be available for a limited period of time - about a couple of weeks only). Here, the elims are ~10 MB because they have a couple of the audio-visuals. Please note that: 1. This set contains all the questions asked - prelims, finals (3 segments), final-within-final. 2. The size of the ppts are big. Audio-visual, being big, have not been uploaded, but paraphrased. (However, the 2nd link has a couple of audio-videos in the elims, leading to the big size). 3. Warning: the ppts have answers at the end. Suggested order: Elims, Elims ...

Firstly everyone at the BCQC wishes you a very Happy New Year. And getting on to business , the Boat Club Quiz Club will be ringing in the new year with our annual InFest Quiz Session. InFest involves a two or three full length quizzes as opposed to just the one that usually takes place at normal sessions . It generally lasts for about 5-6 hours and promises to be great fun . Details : Time : 2 pm ; 4th Jan , 2009 Venue: Boat Club , College of engineering Pune Quizzes: 1. Ganesh Hegde , who has come all the way from the US, will be doing a Religion, Philosophy and Mythology quiz. The topics may seem intimidating but the quiz will be filled with great workable questions . Basically , you don't need to know a lot about the topics to do well at this quiz. 2. Aditya Gadre will be doing his " Not-so-general General Quiz" . Name of quiz to be explained at Infest. 3. Yasho Tamaskar will be doing a Comics and Cartoons Quiz. 4. Suvajit Chakraborty will also be doing ...