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Date: Dec 24 2010, at Extentia, KP, Pune Set and conducted by Suraj Menon/BCQC Theme : General Event held a week earlier on account of New Year’s weekend next week. As always an email quiz was sent to Extentians earlier in the week. Answers and winners announced ahead of Fri's quiz. Winners determined by # of correct answers and timestamp of email. Winner: Vcat Finals: Decent turnout. Teams were again formed from the Extentia houses. Five in all. Teams : Spartans, Royal Brigade, Parikrama, Constant Variables and Infinity. Format : IR with 25 questions. * Keenly contested quiz with all the usual shrill sledging between teams * The Royal Brigade led from the beginning, and the Spartans ran them close. * Most questions (22/25) were answered and all teams had points on the board mid-quiz. * Several connect questions were worked out by the top three teams * Topics currently in the news featured in many questions * Several new faces among participants! Winne...

OK, so this is the deal. I used to quiz with same folks who bore you with all the inane details of their latest mercenary exploits at some gender-confused engineering college  in town -- hell, I even used to go to those quizzes. Religiously. And lose. But, hey, that's not the point. I was one of the cool folk, the creator of the Centaurian Scoring System   rivaled in length of existence only by the sperm whale and the bowl of petunias . So that's by way of introduction. Since having quit my self-carpentered chair of crazy-new-quizzing-ideas (Chief Innovation Officer?) at the BCQC, I have to moved on, to frankly more useful endeavors. In an effort to distance myself from the effluvial delights of the boat club and its charmingly green waters, I have drained myself and my brain to the US. To MIT , Cambridge, USA more specifically. Old habits die hard, so my Wednesday nights are spent quizzing. Or trying to quiz. You see, a hankering for mind numbingly pointless convol...

Date: 12 Dec, 2010 Venue: COEP Conducted by: Vishwajeet Narvekar for the KQA No. of Teams: 10 Results: Open Category winners: Suraj, Ramanand, Harish, Suvajit: 32 points College winners: Rohan Prabhu, Omkar Moghe, Shreevallabh Gharote, Sameer Patil (COEP): 12 points Thanks to Aadinath and Mohit of COEP for making the arrangements. Prizes sponsored by Tender Leaves (Pune's newest Book Service++) and BCQC. Update: 30 Dec 2010 The overall results and the questions+answers are available at the KQA site here .

*  Team  of (upto) 4 people *  Venue:  Seminar Hall II (Next to main Auditorium), College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), Shivajinagar, Pune-5  College coordinator:  Mohit Karve (9890777964 ;  mohit@bcqc.org ) *  Timing:  2:30 to 5:30 on  12th December (Sunday) *  General  Written Quiz * Prizes  for the top 2 best teams, college teams, school teams (sponsored by BCQC) *  Entries  received so far will appear on  http://bit.ly/ezwhDq Please read below for the details. Since the venue can only accommodate about 30 teams, you are advised to register in advance by writing to the organisers as given below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From:  Arul Mani   < arul.mani@gmail.com > This is to announce the second edition of Mega-Whats, our National Open Quizzing Championship. The quiz will be held across nine cities simultaneously. Apart from Bangalore, we have  venue co...

Arul Mani of Karnataka Quizzing Association has a very nice article on quizzing in general and his personal experiences. Do read and share.

Fri, October 29, 2010 at Extentia KPO/Umkaz, Koregaon Park QM: Venkat Srinivasan. Quiz set by Suraj Menon/BCQC Theme: Festivals & Sport Email Quiz: The usual email quiz was sent to Extentians earlier in the week. Winners determined by # of correct answers and timestamp on email. Some eager-beavers started to badger Vcat with questions on the questions mid-week. Answers and winners announced at the end of Fri afternoon's main quiz. The winner's usually a skilled Googler. Finals: Among the highest turnouts for an Extentia quiz. The event coincided with the company's traditional attire day for the upcoming Diwali festival. Teams were formed from the Extentia houses for the first time. Six in all. Several new faces. (And very traditionally dressed teams!) Teams: Unicorns, Spartans, Royal Brigade, Parikrama, Constant Variables and Infinity. Format: IR with 25 questions. Questions alternated between festivals and sport/sports scams. The Unicorns took an early l...

When : Fri, September 24, 2010 at Extentia ITT, Kalyani Nagar QM : Prakash Kamath. Quiz set by Suraj Menon/BCQC Theme : General Email Quiz: As always a 'warm up' email quiz was sent to Extentians earlier in the week. Winners determined by # of correct answers and timestamp on email. Answers and winner : (Vcat) announced ahead of Fri afternoon's quiz. He won 'cos he got Mehrauli for the exact location of the Iron Pillar [Q: Where is this (pic) located?] Finals: * Good turnout at ITT. A full house for this Extentia location. * IR with participants split into four teams as always. * Team 1 started to lead from the 4th question. Competitive quiz where all teams scored over 30 points each. * Most questions were worked out and answered by teams * Teams were given a minute for each direct - to read long questions and work out answers. An actual stopwatch was used. * Cordial atmosphere despite intensity of competition. No fights between teams and with the Q...

Set by Gaurav Keskar, Aadinath Harihar, Mohit Karve with inputs from Amit Patil and Gaurav Mehta Questions reviewed and moderated by Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgiwale Theme : General Date/Venue : 10th October 2010, College of Engineering, Pune: Format : 35 Question Elims, 54 Question Finals (29 IR + 6 Written + 19 IR Rev) Results : 1st Place: J Ramanand and B V Harish Kumar (Team E) [Elims: 20 (4*) || Finals: 120] 2nd Place*: Anand Sivasankar and Prasanna Potdar (Team C) [Elims: 25 (2*) ||Finals: 90] 3rd Place: Meghashyam Shirodkar and Amit Garde (Team F) [Elims: 26 (2*) || Finals: 90] 4th Place: Mayur Srinivasan and Abhishek Padmanabhan (Team D)- IIT Bombay [Elims: 22 (4*) || Finals: 70] 5th Place: Ganesh Hegde and Shivaji Marella (Team A) [Elims: 25 (6*) || Finals: 50] 6th Place: Suraj Menon and Yashovardhan Tamaskar (Team B) [Elims: 23 (4*) || Finals: 50] (*2nd place decided on Elims scores) Best College Team (outside the finalists): Akhil Srivatsan and Mukund Ver...

Set by Himanshu Panandikar, Mohit Karve with inputs from Aadinath Harihar Questions reviewed and moderated by Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgiwale Theme : Automobiles Date/Venue : 10th October 2010, College of Engineering, Pune: Format : 30 Question Elims, 42 Question Finals Results : 1st Place: Suraj Menon and Yashovardhan Tamaskar (Team E) [Elims: 19 (4*) || Finals: 85] 2nd Place: Kunal Sawardekar (Team D) [Elims: 20 (4*) || Finals: 70] 3rd Place*: Chinmay Pande and Gautam Unni (Team C) (Elims: 17.5 (4*) || Finals: 60] 4th Place: Chaitanya Pise and Ninad Alurkar (Team B) [Elims: 16.5 (4*) || Finals: 60] 5th Place: Vinay N and Yash Marathe (Team F) [Elims: 20 (4*) || Finals: 30] 6th Place: Jaipal Dhupar and Saransh Verma (Team A) [Elims: 17.5 (4*) || Finals: 30] *3rd place decided on Elims scores Best College Team (outside the finalists) : Bharat Marathe and Aditya Ramachandran (MIT) Please provide comments if you attended the quiz. Report by Aadinath Harihar

Set by Mohit Karve, Mihir Khatwani with inputs from Gaurav Keskar, Himanshu Panandikar, Amit Patil and Aadinath Harihar Questions reviewed and moderated by Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgiwale Theme : Science and Technology Date/Venue : 8th October 2010, College of Engineering, Pune: Results : 1st Place*: Sachin Ravi and Raghav NC (Symbiosis Law School) (Elims: 18 || Finals: 105) 2nd Place: Nikhil Motlag and Avaneendra Bhargav (Elims: 16 || Finals: 105) 3rd Place: Jaypal Dhupar and Saransh Verma (Elims: 22 || Finals: 80) *1st place decided on Elims scores after Tie Breaker also ended in a tie Unlike previous years, Torquest was an open quiz this time making it extremely competitive. The number of teams participating in a "SciTech" quiz was also high this year. The elims started with excellent set of 30 questions, spreading across various domains of Science and Technology. It had a perfect mix of questions for a regular as well as a non-regular quizzer. The final...

MindSpark is the annual Technical Festival of the College of Engineering, Pune. This year MindSpark will play host to 4 quizzes from 8th- 10th October 2010. Specifics Below .  For any additional clarifications. visit  http://mind-spark.org/ eureka.php . 1.  Chakravyuh - the Open General Quiz Sponsors: Atlas Copco   Saturday, 9th October 2010 Timing: 11:00 am to 4:30 pm. Venue: The Auditorium, College of Engineering, Pune Weblink:   http://mind-spark. org/events/chakravyuh.php Chakravyuh has been one of Pune's best known open quizzes for many years now. A general quiz that is literally based on anything and everything under the sun, the participants of this quiz can range from college students to software professionals. Chakravyuh has gone on to produce quizzers who would later perform exceptionally well at national level quizzes. Previous years have elicited fantastic participation and the prize money remains as sweet as ever. Status: Open Quiz (An...

Extentia Company Quiz VI - Fri, August 27, 2010 at Extentia KP QMs: Mukul Vyas and Soumava Chatterjee. Quiz set by Suraj Menon/BCQC Theme: General Email quiz sent to Extentians earlier in the week. Answers and winners announced ahead of Fri's quiz. Winners determined by # of correct answers and timestamp of email. About 20 Extentians in all - the now familiar in-company quiz folks. IR with participants split into four teams as always. Team 1 established an early lead that it held through the quiz Tie for 2nd between teams 3 and 4. Tiebreaker won by Team 4 Interesting, workable questions, and most were answered by teams. QMs had a good sense of humor and helmed the quiz well Minor fight between team 3,4 and a QM at tiebreak Demands for Vcat to be excluded from next event (or distribute prizes first and then have the quiz!) Winners: Team 1 (Melanie, Rahul D, Vcat......) Runners Up: Team 4 (Farah, Jaya, Surbhi, Louis...)

Extentia Quiz V - Fri, July 30 at Extentia ITT QMs:Rohan Ambasta and Vishnuprasad Verma. Quiz set by Suraj Menon/BCQC Theme: General Email quiz sent to Extentians earlier in the week. Answers and winners announced ahead of Fri's quiz. * Well attended quiz with participation that increased after the first few questions. * Participants split into four teams. * Clear early lead established by Team III. Several last second correct answers by teams. * Accusations of (un)fairplay traded between Team I and everyone. * Great questions - lots of applause for both questions and answers. Winners : Team III (Jaya, Farah, Mukul, Rahul D, Soumava, Zyfn, Vcat) Runners Up : Team I (Naazneen, Umeed, + 4 others) Report by Vcat

This year’s edition saw one major change in terms of format of the quiz : The quiz was entirely individual this time, even in the later stages. Format: First, an elim determines the seeds and the 8 qualifiers. The qualifiers then face off one-on one according to seeds. Every match consists of a home leg and an away leg. Homeleg is basically direct questions. If one gets a direct question wrong wich the opponent answers, it counts as an away goal and is used for tie breakers (as per UEFA rules) Group stages The quiz started with a 20 question reasonably simple elim. The top 8 scorers qualified for the knockout stages. The elims were a lot closer than last year and also a bit more high scoring with the cut off at 7.5 /20. The seeds were as follows: 1.Bikash Mahapatra 2. Srinath Satyanaryanan 3. J Ramanand 4. Suraj Menon 5. Annanya Deb 6. Omkar Nene 7. Sameer Deshpande 8. Suvojit Chakraborty The Quarter Finals: QF1 Bikash v Suvojit , Bikash started very well taking a quick lead. ...

An individual, knock out, FA Cup inspired quiz to crown the Best Sports quizzer. It is by far the biggest sports quiz we have heard of.* QMs: Yash Marathe, Aniket Khasgiwale and Aditya Gadre Theme: Sports Teams: Individual Restrictions: (or the lack of one) Open quiz. Everyone is welcome When? 12:30 pm, Saturday, 12th June 2010 Where? The Boat Club, College of Engineering Pune Registration: Free registration. You need to register by mailing aditya[at]bcqc.org or yashcmarathe[at]gmail.com or call Aditya at 9881101291. This is required as we need to get elim sheets printed. Prizes : Landmark Vouchers * We have not heard of too many sports quizzes :) Report on the inaugural BC Cup last year is here .

Organised by: IQA Conducted in Pune by: Suvajit (many thanks!) Venue: Symbiosis Law School, Pune Local Results (from memory & Aditya Gadre) - the 'worst' section score in brackets: 1st: Kunal Sawardekar: 92 (+4) 2nd: Ramanand: 82 (+8) 3rd: Suraj Menon: 76 4th: Salil/Akhil/Aditya G: 59 Number of participants: ~30 For more: keep an eye on this link . Bombay results here .

Date: Fri, May 28, 2010. Location: Extentia, Lane 5, KP QM: Dinesh Paripatyadar. Questions set by Rohan Nakar of Extentia and BCQC. First round: Email quiz sent to everyone last Tuesday. Toppers got 15/15 correct (ranked in order of email time-stamp for answers sent) Theme: General tending toward India-centric Participants split into 4 teams of about 6 each. Turnout was higher than previous events. Format: IR with 25 questions. Quiz ended at 20 on account of time. 17/20 questions answered by teams. Notes: Competitive event among 3 teams, with one team not scoring. Some teams were misled by the ‘discuss the wrong answer’ strategy employed by neighboring teams. No violence reported Winners: Team B with Chetan, Umeed, Vcat, Zyfn, Manuela, Prashant M among others. Runners up: Team D with Jaya, Melanie and several others. They went past Farah/Louis/others’ Team A by 0.5 pts. Report by 'Vcat'

Organised by: KQA Conducted in Pune by: Vishwajeet Narvekar (many thanks as usual!) Venue: Landmark, Pune (thanks to the staff for turning up so early and for the arrangements) School Winner: Roopak Karalkar (22) College Winner: Sukrit Munjal(32) Ladies Winner: Meghna Sreenivasan (11) Open Category Winner: J. Ramanand (69) Number of participants: ~40 to 50 Official final standings: keep an eye on this link . Updated on 6 Jun * Links to Top 100 results , local winners , and rankings in the ladies, college & school categories . * Link to the Mahaquizzer 2010 Q & A . * Four people from Pune were in the top 100 (Ramanand, Kunal S, Suraj, and Salil), with a few more BCQC members from other centres. Roopak K was ranked 11th in the list of school students.

The Landmark In-Store Movie Quiz was successfully concluded on Saturday evening. Quizmasters Niranjan and Suraj conducted the proceedings with great (and dare I say, Dereksian) flair, while Harish and I provided logistical and moral support. The quizmasters asked about 60-70 regular questions to the audience at large, followed by a final round of about 5-6 questions to four teams of the top scorers in the regular round. The audience for the quiz consisted of about 50-60 Landmark patrons (all adults, and thankfully so, seeing as Niranjan took the time to speculate on the strip club-visiting habits of the participants) with a core of about 20 staying through the quiz. In sum, fun was had by all. Sadly, I did not note the names of the finalists, so perhaps Niranjan can let us know when he sees this. Report by Kunal Sawardekar This was the 3rd Landmark in-store BCQC quiz. The earlier ones were on the themes of Comics and the Books of Harry Potter.

We're going plane-crazy on Saturday evening. With a quiz on movies. If you're a quizzing enthusiast (read 'drooling geek') show up. If you're a movie buff, we'll be waiting for you. If you are both, then come on right in. If you are neither, then this quiz is tailor-made for you! maajraa kyaa hai? : an informal movie quiz by the BCQC and Landmark, particularly for non-quizzers. main kahaan huun? : Landmark, SGS Mall, Pune maal kab pahunchegaa? : between 5 and 7 pm, Saturday (22nd May) kitne aadmi hai? : there are no teams, no formalities, no registrations. Just show up, take a seat or stand by, and participate. That's about it, really. See you on Saturday.

Niranjan and I teamed up for the Pune round of Brand Equity 2010 quiz where we finished 3rd. Neither of us is any good at biz-quizzing, and so admittedly, a mercenary attitude fueled the decision to travel the entire diameter of Pune. Despite the middle-level placing (not bad, given the presence and three-blade-close-shave elimination of some very good teams), we can't help a couple of rants. On the difference between data mining and data compression Or, to compress the question, the various differences between data compression . I hate having to answering such school-type questions 1 , but I guess we're always ready to pawn our soul for 10 points :-). So we defined it as being techniques "for reducing the size of data for transmission/storage etc" (paraphrasing), but were ruled wrong. I'm not sure what the correct answer was, but I think it was to the effect of "extracting only that info from data that is needed" (memory fails me, as I was still ...

Date : 14 May, 2010 Conducted by : Derek O'Brien Venue : Ishanya , Pune Turnout t: 23 teams Standings 1st: Infosys (C): Ajay & Jayakumar (95) 2nd: Advinus Therapeutics (A): Suraj & Siddharth (58) 3rd: Cognizant (B): Niranjan & Ramanand (55) 4th: Neo Green (D): Shubhodeep & Sandeep (40) 5th: RBI (F): Mohana & Priyam Bhattacharya (35) 6th: QED Baton (E): Nikhil & Tejas (10) (IBM - Vishwajeet & Ramanathan just missed out) Report The theme of the year was 'social networking', so much so that it also was the answer to a question. This was one of the few really good questions in an otherwise routine Brand Equity quiz round. The finals began with a round of direct multiple-choice questions (no passing), went on to a round of 'dry' questions, followed by a 'identify' visual round (reversed passing) and another 'dry' round. The fifth round was an audio-video round, at the end of which the last team dropped out (there ...

We have an announcement on the World Quizzing Championships, and the details of the Pune venue: This is a solo written competition consisting of 8 sections (of 30 qns each) to be solved in 2 hours. Date: 5th June 2010 (Saturday) Time: Report by 3:30 pm. Quiz starts sharp at 4 pm, ends at 6 pm. Answers & Scoring will follow immediately. Venue: Symbiosis Law School Auditorium, Symbiosis Law School, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune - 411004 Registration: Prior registration is mandatory to ensure your seat. Only very few extra answer sheets will be available for "on the spot" registrations, so confirmation is necessary. Registration is free & open to all. To register, please contact the local coordinator as follows: Pune Coordinator: Suvajit Chakraborty (+919370124365,chakrabortysuvajit at gmail dot com) For the quiz format, visit this link .

The announcement for this year's Mahaquizzer follows. A short summary (with Pune venue details) is as follows: When: 30 May (Sunday), 9 am onwards (timing to be confirmed) Where in Pune: Landmark, SGS Mall, Moledina Road, Pune To register: write to mahaquizzer@gmail.com with Pune in the subject line (since the venue may only has limited seating, it is recommended that you register in advance, by 23rd May). Prizes: for the best quizzer, lady quizzer, school quizzer, college quizzer; as usual, the BCQC will sponsor additional prizes in some of these categories. Note: the venue will not have desks, so you may want to get a writing pad along with your pen. The full announcement from the KQA: We will hold the sixth edition of Mahaquizzer across 14 cities on Sunday, 30 May 2010. The cities where centres are being offered are Bangalore , Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Guwahati, Panaji, Thrissur, Mysore and Coimbatore . If we are able to obtain...

Date: 9 May 2010 Set and Conducted by: Suraj Menon Format: Teams of 2 for elims. About 20 teams participated. 30 questions written elims. Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams chosen by finalist teams as draft picks. Teams of 3 for finals. Finals: 1 written theme for free hit. 48 questions IR with round reversal Results 1st: Team E - Salil Bijur, Aniket Khasgiwale and Nikhil Kumar Verma (draft) - 150pts 2nd: Team C - Niranjan Pedanekar, Aditya Gadre and Sameer Deshpande (subst. Arnold D'Souza) (draft)- 130pts 3rd: Team D - Kunal Sawardekar, Venkat Srinivasan and Gurudatt Bhobe (draft) - 120pts 4th: Team B - J. Ramanand, Yasho Tamaskar and Subhashish Das (draft) - 110pts 5th: Team F - Aditya Chandorkar + 1 + Vaibhav Bajpai (draft) - 95pts 6th: Team A - Prasanna Kumar, Rahul Nayak and Vikram Keskar(draft) - 80pts Please leave your opinions in the comments section.

Date: 9 May 2010 Set and Conducted by: Aniket Khasgiwale Format: Teams of 2 for elims. About 20 teams participated. 25 questions written elims. Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams chosen by finalist teams as draft picks. Teams of 3 for finals. Finals: 48 questions IR with round reversal Results 1st: Team F - Kunal Sawardekar, Yasho Tamaskar and Subhashish Das (draft) - 125pts 2nd: Team A - Prasanna Kumar, Rahul Nayak and Anand Viswanathan (draft)- 65pts 3rd: Team B - Salil Bijur, Suvojit Chakraborty and Vikram Keskar (draft) - 65pts 4th: Team C - J. Ramanand, B.V. Harishkumar and Gurudatt Bhobe (draft) - 60pts 5th: Team D - Aditya Gadre, Suraj Menon and Sameer Deshpande (draft) - 60pts 6th: Team E - Rashmi Machado, Jaspreet Rikhraj and Bharath S (draft) - 35pts Please leave your opinions in the comments section.

When: Fri, Apr 30, 2010. Location: Extentia ITT, Rd 12, Kalyani Nagar QM: Venkat Srinivasan First round: BCQC set email quiz sent to all employees Monday. Rohan Nakar a regular topper got all 14.5/15 correct. 4 way tie for 2nd at 14. Theme: General Participants split into 4 teams of about 4 each IR with 25 questions 21/25 questions answered by teams Notes: Competitive quiz where all teams scored above 3 points each. Loads of applause for several questions. Several 'difficult' questions solved by all teams. Winners: Team 1 led by Chetan Shetty, VP, Operations Runners up: Team 3 led by Prashant Main, SEO Coordinator Prizes: Crossword vouchers in various denominations for all winners. Report by Venkat Earlier Extentia quizzes here

The BCQC presents two open quizzes in May 2010. Here are the details: Administrivia Date : 9th 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: Suraj (98903 59065), Ramanand (97642 58560) Email: contact(at)bcqc(dot)org 'How to's : Up to 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 . Lots of audience prizes. Prizes are co-sponsored by Landmark (Pune) and the BCQC . Morning: 'Dasvidaniya' Quizmaster : Aniket Khasgiwale Timings : 10:00 am to 12:30 pm (report by 9:45 am) Flavour : General Finals : To...

Set by : Aditya Gadre and Gaurav Singh Conducted by : Gaurav Singh Standings 1st place: Suraj Menon and Vinay N : 85 pts 2nd place: Aniket Khasgiwale and Suvojit Chakraborty: 80 pts 3rd place: Meghashyam Shirodkar and J Ramanand : 75 pts 4th place : Salil and Venkat : 70 pts 5ht place: Kunal Sawardekar (solo) : 65 pts 6th place : PUMBA : 0 pts The quiz started on a grim note as the MCQ pattern of the quiz was not appreciated by everyone. Further, there were some discrepencies in some questions. The audio-visual round was well appreciated. Yasho Tamaskar and Yash Marathe narrowly missed a final birth. The only non-BCQC team in the final was a team from PUMBA. The finals were well recieved. There were problems regarding uniformity of distribution of the questions. Some difficult questions were followed by relatively easier ones. Considering the audience and the setting, some of the questions were diluted to make them easier. Overall though, the competition was g...

Nischay Mhatre, a third year student of IT at COEP, became the latest winner of Abhimanyu , COEP 's intra-college solo quizzing champion. The quiz was organised by last year's winner (and only double champion so far) Aniket Khasgiwale. After a preliminary (written) round, 6 finalists were shortlisted. The finals were conducted in two parts: a common 15 question general round (again, written), followed by a Mastermind-style specialities round. Nischay's topic was The History of Computing . The details as follows: Winner: Nischay Mhatre - The History of Computing - 16.5 (9.5 gen + 7 in specialisation) - topic setters: Abhishek Nagaraj & Siddharth Dani 2nd: Gaurav Keskar - The Harry Potter Series of Books - 15 (3+12) - set by Meghashyam 3rd: Aadinath Harihar - The Hindi Film Music of A.R. Rahman - 14 (5+9) - set by Ramanand Other finalists : Mohit Karve ( The Big Bang Theory TV series , set by Nikhil Kundargi), Gautam Akiwate ( Free Software Movement , set by Ab...

Date: Saturday, 10th April. Venue: College of Engineering, Pune. Set by :Aadinath Harihar, Mohit Karve, Aditya Gadre, Nishchay Mhatre,Kaustubh Bhat and Gautam Akiwate Conducred by Aadinath Harihar and Mohit Karve Final Standings 1st : Omkar Bedarkar & Swapnil Bokade - 70 points 2nd : Anirudh Bapat & Abhsihek Oswal- 70 points 3rd : Mihir Rege & Vikram Keskar- 60 points 4th : Rohan Danait & Sanket Bhilare- 55 points 5th : Yash Sinha & Rohan Jain- 40 points 6th : Omkar Moghe & Rohan Ghige- 25 points Best School Team: Santosh Ranawane & Prabhat Sarode Best College Team: Suraj Dhiwar & Sanket Sen The COEP Astronomy Club and the BCQC had organised the second edition of Quiztronomy on Saturday, 10th April. The number of teams were less in number, since most schools had their vacations going on. However, there was a good response from college teams all over Pune as well as a few junior college students. The elims were fairly straightforward, with most...

Last year, in the International Year of Astronomy, an intersection of the COEP Astronomy Club and the BCQC organised "Quiztronomy" , an astronomy quiz aimed at popularising the subject among students, particularly school children. Details of the second edition of this well-received quiz are as follows: Quiztronomy is an astronomy themed quiz- the trivia being workable by everyone and not aimed specifically at astronomy enthusiasts. After the grand success of last year's event, we would like to invite you to participate in this year’s edition of Quiztronomy . 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.15,000/- (inclusive of vouchers) Details: Date 10th April, 2010 (Saturday)...

Extentia is a software development firm with offices in Pune. A few months ago, the BCQC was approached to conduct quizzes at the company in a package of entertaining quizzing. The quiz was conducted by Yash Marathe on our behalf. Here's a report by Vcat: Extentia Intra-company quiz I Fri, Feb 5, 2010. Location: Extentia HQ, Lane E, Koregaon Pk. QM: Yash Marathe. First round: BCQC set email quiz sent to all employees earlier in the week to generate enthusiasm for the Friday event. Topper got all answers right. Theme: General Participants split into 5 teams of about 4 each IR with 25 questions 21/25 questions answered by teams Winners: Team 2 led by Chetan Shetty, VP, Operations Runners up through a tie break: Team 1 led by Farah Nesargi, Project Manager Extentia Intra-company quiz II Fri, Mar 26, 2010. Location: Extentia ITT, Rd 12, Kalyani Nagar QM: Yash Marathe. First round: BCQC set email quiz sent to all employees on the previous Tuesday. Theme: Sports Par...

MIT College of Engineering (MIT COE) are conducting 3 quizzes as part of their college fest Tesla. The event is called X-Quiz-Me and it has a general, sports and a Bollywood quiz. Date: 3rd April, 2010 (Saturday) Time: General quiz: 9.45 am Sports quiz: 1 pm Bollywood quiz: 4 pm Venue: MIT College of Engineering, Paud Rd. Eligibility: College students only. Cross college teams allowed. Registration: Rs. 50 per team Contact: Keyur: 9823081719 Prizes: For each of the 3 quizzes: 1st prize Rs. 3000 + vouchers 2nd prize Rs. 2000 + vouchers

Date: 21 Mar 2010 Set and Conducted by: : Vinay N. Format: Teams of 2 for elims. 30 teams participated. 30 questions written elims. Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams chosen by finalist teams as draft picks. Teams of 3 for finals. Finals: 1 written theme. 48 questions IR with round reversal Results 1st: Team A - J. Ramanand, Meghashyam Shirodkar and Suraj Menon (draft) - 135pts 2nd: Team B - Anand Sivashankar, Amit Garde and Venkat Srinivasan (draft) - 95pts 3rd: Team D - Suvojit Chakraborty, Yash Marathe and Rohan Jain (draft) - 85pts 4th: Team C - Anannya Deb, S. Balakrishnan and Karan Pande (draft) - 60pts 5th: Team E - Salil Bijur, Yasho Tamaskar and Siddharth (draft) - 50pts 6th: Team F - Aditya Chandorkar, Aadinath Harihar and Jaipal (draft) - 40pts Please leave your opinions in the comments section.

Date: 21 Mar 2010 Set and Conducted by: Anand Sivashankar Format: Teams of 2. 8 teams in finals 30 questions written elims 3 written themes (only 2 were conducted due to shortage of time) and 75-odd questions IR Results: 1st: Team C - Anannya Deb and S. Balakrishnan - 207.5pts 2nd: Team D - Amit Garde and Meghashyam Shirodkar - 157.5pts 3rd: Team E - J. Ramanand and Suraj Menon - 120pts 4th: Team G - Rashmi Machado and Bharat - 77.5pts 5th: Team A - Shaibal Chakravarty and Ritwik - 47.5pts 6th: Team F - Salil Bijur and Sameer Deshpande - 42.5pts 7th: Team H - Yash Marathe and Vinay N. - 30pts 8th: Team B - Saransh Verma and Avanindra Bhargav - 25pts QM's notes: A turnout of 17 teams for the 30 question elims with 8 teams on stage meant that most participants had a fair chance of qualifying. Most of the questions were answered with facile ease and since the purpose was to broaden mass coverage and encourage working out, that lofty objective was achieved albeit w...

Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT) is conducting its annual tech extravaganza Impetus and Concepts from 23rd to 28th March. Prahelika The Quiz will be one of the events. Date: 25th March, 2010 (Thursday) Time: Elims start at 11. Please report by 10:45 am so that you may be directed to the proper venue for elims. Elims will be a written round of 30-40 minutes duration. Finals will start approximately at 1:30 pm. Approximate duration of the quiz is 2 hours. Venue: Pune Institute of Computer Technology, near Bharti Vidyapeeth campus Eligibility: College students with valid id. Teams of one or two. Flavor: General Registration: You can register at the desk set up in your college or on the spot. In case you're registering on the spot, please be there half an hour prior to the event for logistical reasons. Contact: Event Heads: Akshay Baheti - 9975130348 and Pratik Sikchi - 9422958833 Quizmaster: Yash Sinha - 9970137651

These are results for the General Quiz called 'Quiz-O-Mania' Date: 13 Mar 2010 Conducted by: : Jayraj Bajaj and Sameer Jagdale Results 1st: Team E - Meghashyam Shirodkar and Amit Garde - 125pts 2nd: Team B - Suraj Menon and Suvajit Chakraborty - 110pts 3rd: Team A - Salil Bijur and Yasho Tamaskar - 100pts 4th: Team D - Nikhil Motlag and Tejas Kulkarni - 40pts 5th: Team C - Venkat Srinavasan and Rohan Jain - 20pts Format: 25 questions elims on slides 40 questions Finals: 10 clockwise IR, 10 anti-clockwise IR, 10 clockwise IR with negatives, 10 anti-clockwise with double or negative

The BCQC begins its 2010 season with a set of two open quizzes this month. Here are the details: Administrivia Date : 21st March (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: Suraj (98903 59065), Ramanand (97642 58560) Email: contact(at)bcqc(dot)org 'How to's : Up to 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 . Lots of audience prizes. Prizes are co-sponsored by Landmark (Pune) and the BCQC . Morning: 'Reading between the lines...' (a Literature Quiz) Quizmaster : Anand Sivashankar Timings : 10:00...

Students of Sinhgad College of Engineering are organising a national technical event Excelsior 2k10 from 11th to 13th March and have 2 quizzes as a part of the fest. Eligibility: Open for all Adroit - Technical quiz Elims: 11th March 11am to 11.30am Finals: 12th March 11am to 1pm Format: Teams of 2 members. 4 teams in finals Flavour: This quiz is primarily on 4 topics: bridges, tower crains, natural calamities and global warming Cash prizes: 1st: 30,000/- 2nd: Rs. 20,000/- Quizmasters: Ravindra Aile and Anurav Jain (9960712083) Quiz-O-Mania - General quiz Not to be confused with VIT's annual open quiz Date: 13th March Time: 11.00 am to 3.00 pm. Eliminations followed by finals. On the spot registration is also available. Format: Teams of 2 members. 6 teams in finals Flavour: General Cash prizes: 1st: 9,000/- 2nd: Rs. 3,000/- Quizmasters: Jayraj Bajaj (9860602727) and Sameer (9923072228)

A general quiz is being organized on 13th March (Saturday) at the Army Institute of Technology, Dighi Hills, Alandi Road, Pune. Registration: Rs 60 for a team of two. On spot registrations available on confirmation by sms or email. Directions to get to AIT: Catch a direct bus to Alandi from Pune railway station or Mahanagar Palika or from anywhere. It drops you directly in front of the college gate. Eligibility: This is a college students only quiz. Intercollege teams allowed. Prizes: 4000 for the first, 2000 for the second and for third its 1000. These may increase in the future but surely wont decrease. Timing: 10-30 a.m. onwards Contact: Prashant Tomar (9823694984) and Ayush Agarwal (9823438132)

Date: 16 Feb 2010 Set & Conducted by: : Hitesh Mahato (Elims) and Lt. Col. Nikhil Moorchung (Finals) Results 1st: Team C - Meghashyam Shirodkar and Salil Bijur - 130pts 2nd: Team F - Venkat Srinavasan and Rohan Jain - 90pts 3rd: Team E - Suvajit Chakraborty and Yash Marathe - 85pts Joint 4th: Team A - Abhinav Raina and Salil Jena (AFMC) - 80pts Joint 4th: Team B - Abhishek and Krishna (AFMC) - 80pts 6th: Team D - Abhilash and Anirudh (Kasturba Medical College, Manipal) Format: 25 questions elims on slides; 60 questions Finals (IR with round reversal after 30) Report The quiz began on time with an alumnus of AFMC paying a small tribute to his batchmate Shyam Bhatt whom the annual quiz is named after. Elims were set and conducted completely by students while the finals were by an AFMC faculty member Lt. Col. Moorchung. Questions were nice although the finals seemed to be on the easier side with many chestnuts. Most teams were neck-to-neck half way through. After the r...

Axelerate - a general quiz is to be held on the 20th of Feb at Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune. Team of 2 Registration on the spot will be available Time: 11.00 am 1st Prize Rs 10,000. 2nd Prize Rs 6,000. 3rd Prize Rs 4,000. Quizmasters: Rohan Jain - +91 98811 60507 Bharat Marathe - +91 98608 22888

Date : 30 Jan, 2010 Venue : Nehru Memorial Hall, Pune Conducted by : Dr. Navin Jayakumar Turnout : ~280 teams Results 1st: Travelling Pillsburies (Rajiv Rai, Sumant Srivathsan, Vibhendu Tiwari) 62 pts 2nd: QED (Samanth Subramanian, G. Swaminathan, Ramana) 58 pts 3rd: 3 Paajis in a Shaniwar Wada Pav (Meghashyam Shirodkar, Amit Garde, Anand Sivashankar) 50 pts 4th: Inglorious Kaminey (Rajen Prabhu, Gopal Kidao, Ravi Mundoli) 40 pts 5th: 3 Mistakes of our parents' lives (Pradeep Ramarathnam, Vikram Joshi, Mukund) 33 pts 6th: No Enthu Da (Aadisht Khanna, Aishwarya, Aswath) 25 pts 7th: Grouchy Marxists (Deviprasad Viswanathan, TK Balaji, Vikram Rajan) 19 pts 8th: GDS System of Measurement (Govind Grewal, Dhananjay Shettigar, Sauvik) 15 pts Best Corporate Team : ZS Associates Best College Team : SCMHRD Best School Teams : 1st: Army Public School; 2nd: Abhinava Vidyalaya Format: 40 Question Prelims Cutoff was 26 with some stars Finals - Two rounds of IR - 15 each. 1...

Date : 30 Jan, 2010 Venue : Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune Conducted by : Salil Bijur Turnout : ~75 teams Format : 32 questions written elims followed by 42 questions on seamless IR. Results: Joint 1st: Suraj Menon and Yash Marathe : 80 pts Joint 1st: Priyambad Pattanayak and Krishnamurti Ganesh : 80 pts Joint 3rd: Annanya Deb and Suresh Ramasubramanian : 60 pts Joint 3rd: Meghashyam Shirodkar and Anand Sivashankar: 60 pts 5th: Pradeep Ramarathnam and Vikram Joshi: 40 pts 6th : Srinath and Roshith: 20 pts Leave your opinions in the comments section.

Details : * Teams of upto 3 members. * Venue: Nehru Memorial Hall, Camp, Pune * 30th of Jan 2010, 3.30pm. * Quizmaster: Dr. Navin Jayakumar * Registration needs to be done in advance. The organizers will be assigning seats, and so it is recommended that you register early so as to avoid last minute crowding. * To register, walk into Landmark, SGS Magnum Mall, Moledina Road, Camp, Pune anytime before the 30th of Jan. You can register for your friends just as well. You could call 40068888 for details.

The annual open quiz at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT) Pune, Quiz-O-Mania, is happening on 30th Jan 2010 as a part of the cultural fest Melange. Details are as follows: Date: 30th Jan, Saturday Flavour: General Time: 9:30am (Reporting Time) 10am sharp (Elims Begin) Venue: VIT Auditorium Team size: 2 Teams that qualify for the finals: 6 Prize money: Rs 12,000 QM: Salil Bijur Location: Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, 666, Upper Indiranagar, Bibwewadi, Pune-37. Contact: Parth (9860608442) or Gaurav (9763313354)

The Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SIIB), Pune is organizing its annual national level management event “IGNISENSE ’10” on 16th and 17th January, 2010. Update: This event has been cancelled. From a mail sent by the SIIB team: Dear All, We are sorry to inform that Clairvoiyance 2010, the Corporate Quiz being organised on 17th Jan 2010 at SIIB,Hinjewadi is not being held due to a pull out from our sponsers. We are very sorry for the inconvinience caused and we sincerely apologise for the same. Regards Team Ignisense SIIB,Pune.