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This was an experimental quiz conducted at the Boat Club in Coep by Aniket Khasgiwale , Yash Marathe and Aditya Gadre . The format was as follows: There was a 25 question written elims from which we drew seeds and made eight teams . Then there were 4 Quarters each of which had two legs . Home- where all the questions go directly to one team and Away- when all questions go direct to the other team . Instead of points we awarded 'Goals' for correct answers. In keeping with UEFA rules , in case of a tie the team with more away goals went through. Then there was a semi and a final. Seeds: 1. Anand S , 2. Aditya Chandorkar , 3. Suvajit Chakraborty , 4. Arnold D'souza , 5. Pratyush Srivastava , 6. Omkar Nene , 7. Sameer Deshpande , 8. Abhishek Nagaraj Quarters had 10 questions each . 5 to each time. QF1 : Anand S vs Abhishek Nagaraj Score: 2-2 Away goals : 1-1 . Anand won on the tiebreaker. QF2 : Arnold D'souza and Ratan Sebastian v/s Pratyush and Salil Score...

The BCQC will be organising a sports quiz in the style of the FA cup hence BC Cup. Format : Written elims Top 16 individuals qualify and are drawn into 8 teams . The 8 teams face off against each other in a knockout fashion. Eligibility: Open , anyone can take part. Venue: Boat Club , College of Engineering Pune Time: 1 pm , Sunday , 31st of May QMs: Yash Marathe , Aniket Khasgiwale and Aditya Gadre Flavour: Sports In case of any queries contact Aditya -9881101291 or Yash 9890102888

Organised by: KQA Conducted in Pune by: Vishwajeet Narvekar (many thanks as usual!) School Winner: Sanket Bhilare - Abhinava Vidyalaya       BCQC prizes: 2nd: Rohan Danait (Abhinava), 3rd: Rajeev Galgali (Shamrao Kalmadi) College Winner: Yash Marathe (Modern)(45)       BCQC prizes: 2nd: Aditya Gadre (COEP), 3rd: Saransh Verma (SIT) Ladies Winner: Suparna Bhattacharya (12) Open Category Winner: Amit Garde (63) Number of participants: ~30 Official final standings: keep an eye on this link .

Set and Conducted by Niranjan Pedanekar. Results (43 questions): 1st: Harish Kumar, Ramanand, Manish (draft) [D]: 70 pts 2nd: Meghashyam, Maitreyi, Nandan Gokhale(draft) [E]: 60 pts Jt. 3rd: Suvajit C, Aniket, Rohan Chokkar (draft) [A]: 45 pts Jt. 3rd: Yash M, Vinay, C V R Sastry (draft) [B]: 45 pts Jt. 3rd: Suraj, Yasho T, (draft), Abhinav [C]: 45 pts Jt. 3rd: Aditya, Kaustubh, Samit [F] (draft): 45 pts Elims: highest: Aniket+Suvajit (21/35); cutoff: 11 Participating Teams: about 35 Conducted with customary elan by Niranjan, this was however the most restrained set of questions I've seen from him. Earlier efforts have been full of maze-like framing & intricate connects, but clearly, recent trends have been towards simpler presentation (most notably seen in last year's visuals quiz ) and less cognitive overload. The elims were good, though some questions perhaps needed some more information to crack. The set was undeniably tough, but workable. Over the years, Niran...

Set and Conducted by Yasho Tamaskar and Suraj Menon Standings : 1st : J Ramanand , Meghashyam Shirodkar and Maitreyi Gupta : 78 pts 2nd : Akhil , Suvajit and Sameer : 73 pts 3rd : Niranjan Pednekar , Aditya Gadre , Siddharth : 43 pts 4th : Abhinav Gudur ,Rohan Chokkar and Nikhil Motlag : 39 pts 5th : Yash Marathe , Vinay and Kaustubh Bhat : 13 pts 6th : Amit Dandekar , Yash Sinha , Saransh Verma : 10 pts 61 Qs seamless IR , One written round with differential marking and a Long Connect While most of questions in the elims were good , though the elims were a bit too tough or rather too quizzer friendly which is why the cut off was very low (only about 8/35). The questions were all great however. Positives: The finals had some very good questions and covered a very wide range of topics which is always good to see. There were several interesting audio-visual questions . All the answers were of the kind that most of audience could have related to them. The team names and the prod...

The BCQC presents two open quizzes in May. Here are the details: Administrivia Date : 17th May (Sunday) Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune (The nearest landmarks: The location is behind Domino's Pizza, near the new ICC Towers complex in which are situated shops such as Mainland China. The place is about 2 km from Pune University. This is a wikimapia map to the location.) Contact : Phone: Ramanand (97642 58560), Aditya (98811 01291), Email: contact(at)bcqc(dot)org 'How to's : Upto two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees Prizes (the same for each quiz) Prizes for each finalist, for the Best College Team , the Best School Team , and the Best Newbie Team . Prizes are co-sponsored by Landmark (Pune) , Blaft Publications (Chennai) , and the BCQC . Morning Quiz: The 'Tyson-Gibran' Quiz Quizmasters : Suraj Menon, Yash Tamaskar Timings : 9:45 am to 12:45 pm (report by 9:30 am) F...

India's biggest solo quizzing competition Mahaquizzer returns with its fifth edition. See below for the official announcement. Pune is one of the centres, so here's a summary of the details with Pune-specific notes: Date: 24th May (Sunday) Quiz Timing: 10:00 to 11:30 am Venue (note: this is different from our usual Open Quiz venue at Persistent Systems): Symbiosis Law School Auditorium, Symbiosis Law School, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune - 411004 Wikimapia link: http://wikimapia.org/#lat=18.522336&lon=73.83004&z=17&l=0&m=a&v=2 Google Maps: http://tinyurl.com/d2p46t Local contacts for directions: Ramanand (9764258560), Salil ((98231 12258)), Aditya (98811 01291) Prizes: Best Quizzer, Best Woman Quizzer, Best College Quizzer and Best School Quizzer. In addition, the BCQC will give out prizes to the 1st & 2nd runners-up in both the College & School categories. Prior registration is strongly encouraged so as to confirm your seat; it also he...

Obligatory question: In a list of his favourite Holmes short stories, Arthur Conan Doyle had The Dancing Men at #3, and the Red-Headed League at #2. Which story, from the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, did he rate as his best? Quizzes The most recent BCQC Open Quiz Day was held in April and consisted of a Western Entertainment quiz by Aditya Gadre and a General quiz by Meghashyam Shirodkar and Aniket Khasgiwale. The previous week, Aniket had a successful outing at COEP's solo quiz Abhimanyu by becoming the first COEPian to win the title twice. A similar mark was achieved by Yash Marathe who triumphed for the 2nd year in becoming the BCQC's College Quizzer of the Year . This was also the season of high-profile business quizzing in Pune: the college version of Tata Crucible was won by the SCMHRD pair of Gaurav & Amneet, while Savoir Faire of Goa once again triumphed at the local Brand Equity round . They will participate in the finals to be held on 10th May in Mumba...

Date and Time : 9th May 2009, 2PM. Should go on till 4 - 4:30PM Venue : Conference Hall, Telco Colony. The colony is bang opposite Tata Motors, Pimpri. 2 persons in a team. Age no bar, sex no bar. 6 teams make it to the final. The quiz is a good ol' gen quiz. Elims-Final format. Cash prizes for the winners and runners up. Vinay (9922994677) More details :

Date : 1 May, 2009 Venue : St. Andrews Auditorium, St. Andrews College, Mumbai Conducted by : Dr. Navin Jayakumar Turnout : ~170 teams Results 1st: Alagarsamy, J. Krishnamurthy, Jayakanthan: E (105) 2nd: Pradeep, Mukund, Nitish: D (65) 3rd: Sumant, Rajiv, Vibhendu: C (55+tiebreak) 4th: Vikram, Rishi, Hanisha: G (55) 5th: Souvik, Govind, Dhananjay : H (45) Jt. 6th: Dipan, Arnab, Arka: A (40) Jt. 6th: Suraj, Salil, Aditya G: F (40) 8th: Meghashyam, Amit G, Anand S: B (25) Cutoff seems to be 31.5 on 40 Best Corporate Team : TIFR Best College Team : IIT Bombay Best School Teams : 1st: Dhirubhai Ambani Intl. School; 2nd: BJEM School Best Team Name : 'Pigs Fly, Swine Flu' Report Perhaps not making it to the final of a quiz is a better way of enjoying it. This blogger found the first Bombay Landmark quiz more favourable than the corresponding Pune fixture earlier this year . There were a couple of peeves as usual, but more on that later. There is almost no mar...

Date: 25 Apr, 2009 Conducted by: Derek O'Brien Venue: Ampitheatre, Ishanya , Pune Standings 1st: Savoir Faire (E): Rajiv & Harsh 2nd: Cognizant Tech. Solutions (A): Harish & Ramanand 3rd: Kotak (B): Ashit + Samrat 4th: ZS Associates (F): Prasanna & Mihir 5th: QEDbaton (D): Nikhil & Tejas 6th: Mahindra (C): Sanjay & Amol Report Savoir Faire once again prevailed in a seemingly tight Brand Equity regional round held in Pune. About 30 teams took part, a far cry from previous years when the R-word was a distant galaxy away. The little venue only underscored the current economic climate, but surprisingly turned out to be a compact little place with enough atmosphere for a quiz. The questions themselves were of the usual BEQ nature: some rank sitters (being asked identify to identify films such as HAHK based merely on a song being played), some strange, hard-to-verify ones ("what does taxod(o?)us mean?") and some good questions ("fans of...

Abhimanyu is the annual intra-COEP solo quizzing event. This year's edition featured seven finalists, was conducted by last year's winner Abhishek Nagaraj, with contributions from BC quizzers. This year's edition was held on 29 March. Seven finalists qualified through a written elims set by Abhishek, consisting of questions under 6 sets of subjects. In the finals, each qualifier attempted 15 questions on a chosen topic of interest. A common GK round followed, once again, with a set of subjects, of which the least scoring one was discarded. The Standings (participant, topic, topic setter) Winner: Aniket Khasgiwale - Sherlock Holmes - Ramanand Runner-Up: Aditya Gadre - Led Zeppelin - Siddharth Dani Other Finalists: Kaustubh Bhat - Wimbledon post 1980s - Anand Sivashankar Nischay - Combat Planes - Kunal Sawardekar Aditya Bhedasgaonkar - Scrubs - Gaurav Sabnis Yasho Tamaskar - Batman - Sudarshan Purohit (Mohit Karve, the 7th participant, was unable to attend the f...