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Click the image for a larger view Just like last year , the Boat Club Quiz Club is happy to announce that it has made a small donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. The reasons remain the same ; perhaps we could add one more: what if you woke up tomorrow and found Wikipedia gone? Happy quizzing, reading, encyclopaeding.

When: 11 Dec, 2011 Where: COEP Moderated by: Gaurav Keskar No. of teams: 19 Winners: OPEN winners: MEGA-WTFS (Ramanand J., Harish Kumar B.V., Salil Bijur, Kunal Sawardekar) - 57 OPEN runners-up: BARR CHAILA FC UNITED (Yash, Suraj, Atul, Anannya) - 52 COLLEGE winners: KILROY’S DOPPLEGANGERS (AFMC - Kshitij Jyoti, Kamesh Gupta, Mridul J., Saikat) - 33 A list of All India results .

Forwarding an announcement from COEP: MindSpark is the annual Technical Festival of the College of Engineering, Pune. This year MindSpark will play host to 4 quizzes from27th- 29th December 2011. Specifics Below .  For any additional clarifications. visit  http://www.mind-spark. org/chaanaksha.php 1.  Chakravyuh - the Open General Quiz Wednesday , 28th December 2011 Timing: 11:00 am to 4:30 pm. Venue: The Auditorium, College of Engineering, Pune Weblink:   http://www.mind- spark.org/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...

Mega-Whats is the KQA's annual team competition. Full details are available at this link . Gist is as follows: (upto) 4 member teams; a General quiz On the 11th of Dec (Sunday) from 2:30 pm Pune venue is: Seminar Hall 2 , Room no. 13, Mech Department, COEP . A full list of venues is here . Prizes (sponsored by the BCQC in Pune) for Best City Team, Best School and College Teams. Prior registration is advised to guarantee a seat and to help organisers figure out the logistics. A list of registered teams so far is here . For the rest of the details, visit this link .

See prior announcement Date: 19 Nov 2011 Set and Conducted by: Ramanand J, Suraj Menon Turnout: ~70 teams Format: A General quiz with an emphasis on Books. Teams of 2 (classes 5-7) for elims. 23 questions written elims on slides. Top 6 teams in finals. Finals: 22 questions on Infinite Rebounds clockwise, 3 written rounds on Book covers, Authors, and a Visual Connect. Highest in elims: 18 (Bishop's), cut-off: 15 (4 stars). Results 1st: Team 5 - Orchid School - 1 2nd: Team 6 - Panditrao Agashe School 3rd: Team 2 - Bishop's Other Finalists: Orchid-2, Millennium International, Symbiosis Best School (based on number of teams in top 10): Orchid school Prizes and trophies sponsored by Tender Leaves. Thanks to Yash Marathe and Ranajeet Soman for helping out with the quiz.

As some of you know, veteran BCQC quizzer Harish's day job (and sometimes night) is being CEO of Tender Leaves , an online book library in Pune. Tender Leaves is organising its first ever Annual Inter School Quiz – a general quiz with a focus on books. The details are as follows: What : A General Quiz with a focus on books Quizmaster : J. Ramanand Who can participate : Students from Classes 5,6 and 7 Team Size : Two. Both members should belong to the same school Format : Written prelims, followed by a Final with 6 teams of 2 members each Entry Fees? : None How to register? : : Call 020 32305063 or write to support@tenderleaves.com; On the spot registrations are also allowed Date : 19th November (Saturday) Timing : participants need to report by 9:15 AM ; Elims: 9: 30 AM- 10:00 AM ; Finals: 10:45 AM- 12:00 noon ) Venue : Nehru Memorial Hall, Camp, Pune. Prizes : Prizes for each finalist, Trophies for winners and first runners-up and the Best School (school with the ma...

Date: 6 Nov 2011 Set and Conducted by: Aditya Gadre Format: Teams of 2 for elims. 25 teams participated. 35 questions written elims on slides. Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams joint finalist teams randomly. Teams of 3 for finals. Finals: 21 questions on Infinite Pounce clockwise, 1 5-image Google Doodle written round, 1 7-question non-negative theme, 21 questions on Infinite Pounce anti-clockwise Results 1st: Team F - Kunal Sawardekar, Maitreyi Gupta and Siddhesh Sarma (draft) - 210 225pts 2nd: Team A - J. Ramanand, Niranjan Pedanekar and Yash Sathe (draft)- 125pts 3rd: Team E - Salil Bijur, Chintan Shah and Kamayani Sharma (draft) - 110pts 4th: Team C - Yash Marathe, Aditya Chandorkar and Satyavrat Wagle - 100pts 5th: Team D - Vikram Keskar, Sameer Deshpande and Rohit Sahasrabuddhe (draft) - 90pts 6th: Team B - Venkat Srinivasan, Amit Paranjape (substituted by Arjun Mohan) and Aniketh Rallabhandi (draft) - 35pts Best College Team: Hitesh Maha...

No, it's not yet another sign that the Chinese are taking over. It's just a general quiz, this time by COEP's own (partially loaned out to XLRI) Aditya Gadre . Details of this third edition of this season's BCQC Opens are: Quizmaster : Aditya Gadre Flavour : General Format : Written prelims; Finals with 6 teams (but with the Draft Pick system: after prelim, top 6 teams to qualify for finals, members of next 3 teams will be distributed among them.) Up to two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees Date & Time 6th November (Sunday) Timings : 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm (report by 1.15 pm) Written prelims: 1:30 pm to 2:15 pm Finals: 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm Venue Classroom 11/13, Mechanical Engineering Dept., College of Engineering, Pune How to get to the venue The College of Engineering, Pune (also known as COEP or just "Engineering College") is located very close to other landmarks such as Pune Station, Sancheti Flyover, and the RTO. ...

The great thing about analogies is that they seldom have to make sense. Often, the seed of such an exercise is in misplaced induction: you start with one element that coincides with another, and then you construct, induction step after step, a cathedral of pure imagination. Here is one such anal-logie, an attempt to equate Indian quizzing groups with Test cricketing nations. Pune : this is where it began. One day, I realised that New Zealand cricket had much in common with us ( the BCQC ). In the quizzing map of India, we are a small but committed quizzing city. We tend to suffer from a very tiny pool of quizzers, but don't let that affect our creativity. We tend to be garrulous about our quizzing opinions, but are usually easy-going (and no one really pays much attention to us :-) ). Yes, we are (were?) a cold city; some of our quizzing happens outdoors and in picturesque settings (at least when we had the Dewang Mehta auditorium!). It can also be argued that the BC is a multi-p...

Forwarding a message from the organisers: Techfest 2011-12 shall host the largest inter-institutional quiz in India, The “Techfest National Open Quiz 2011-12” . With a prize money of INR 1,00,000 for the grand finale and much more interesting prizes this quiz aims to bring together the best quizzers from across the nation. The quiz will be held at Pune, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Guwahati, Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai and the winners of all the cities will finally clash during Techfest 2011-12 to claim the title of the Techfest National Open Quiz Champions. Rest of the details are here . Quizmaster : Rohit Nair Format : Written prelims; Stage Finals with 6 teams. Winners to be invited to Techfest, IIT Bombay in January for the Grand Finale. Two members per team compulsary; No cross institutional teams strictly; Registrations on www.techfest.org/tnoq and also on the spot registrations; No entry fees Date & Time : 15th October (Saturday); Timings : From 11 am Venue : College of Engineer...

Date: 25 Sep 2011 Set and Conducted by: Vikram Joshi Format: Teams of 2 for elims. 32 teams participated. 30 questions written elims on slides. Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams joint finalist teams randomly. Teams of 3 for finals. Finals: 30 questions on IR. 1 10-image visual connect. 2nd round of IR with 30 questions in reverse passing order. 'Pick your poison' in 'Infinite Pounce' format where every team selects a topic, other teams can attempt in writing. Results 1st: Team E - Aditya Gadre, Yash Marathe and Ayon Gupta (draft) - 150pts 2nd: Team C - Vibhendu Tewari, Sarat Rao and Swaminathan (draft)- 120pts 3rd: Team B - Anannya Deb, Anand Sivasankar and Salil Bijur (draft) - 115pts 4th: Team D - J. Ramanand and Suraj Menon - 110pts 5th: Team F - S. Balakrishnan, Sameer Deshpande and Arjun Mohan (draft) - 80pts 6th: Team A - Shubhankar Gokhale, Abhinav Dasgupta and Gaurav (draft) - 50pts Elims cutoff: 11.5 Best school team:...

Date : 22 Sept, 2011 Conducted by : Derek O'Brien Venue : Westin Hotel, Pune Turnout : ~30 teams Standings 1st: Infosys (C): Pratyush and Mehul 3rd: ZS Associates (D): Prabhakar and Jaipal 3rd: Advinus Therapeutics (A): Suraj & Shariq Other finalists: ZS Associates (Bharat and Anand), Indira School of Business (names not announced), TCS (Abhishek and Suchir) Got comments? Use the commenting form below. Questions from the prelims here .

In the second edition of this season's BCQC Opens, Vikram Joshi of Bombay Quiz Club will conduct his first quiz in Pune. Vikram is one of Mumbai's leading quizzers having won KQA's Mahaquizzer city round and Landmark Open Quiz national finals among several others. It will be a general themed quiz reflecting what he has been reading and watching lately. Details follow below: 'Stuff I've Been Reading' Quizmaster : Vikram Joshi Flavour : General Format : Written prelims; Finals with 6 teams (but with the Draft Pick system: after prelim, top 6 teams to qualify for finals, members of next 3 teams will be distributed among them.) Up to two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees Date & Time 25th September (Sunday) Timings : 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm (report by 1.15 pm) Written prelims: 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm Finals: 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm Venue Seminar Hall II, College of Engineering, Pune How to get to the venue The College of Engineering, Pune...

The Oasis Quiz Lone Wolf Edition is the annual lone wolf quiz conducted by ELAS, the quizzing club at BITS Pilani. It will be a 90 minute 120 question written solo quiz, held simultaneously across various venues across the country. The quiz is open to all. The college-level winner in each venue will be invited to Pilani during Oasis, the annual cultural festival of BITS-Pilani to participate in a mega showdown. Prizes for college category and open category winners. The winner here will be crowned champion and, needless to say, will win lots of money and pride and honor. register at : http://tiny.cc/lkodg 4th Sept. 11 am onwards Venue: Seminar Hall 2 is confirmed. It is adjacent to College Gymkhana & college library. Pune Venue : College of Engineering, Pune Contact : Amit Patil - 9970144577 The last year's question paper is here .

If you read our sidebar or this post , you'll notice that we've not been much of a question posting gang. This has changed (at least for now!). Thanks to the efforts of Yash Marathe and others, who in a Veda Vyasa-like fit have taken it upon themselves to upload some of the recent BC quizzes at the BCQC Questions Blog . The first two sets are as follows: 1. The BC Cup 2011: Questions ( Report ). 2. The recently held BC August 2011 Open "Cineaste": Questions ( Report ). Before we end, a caveat. Other quizzing associations who have enthusiastically put up their questions online have often reported that people have been lifting questions without even a semblance of credit, and thus have even opted to stop putting questions online. We understand these dangers, but right now, we plan to try sharing these questions and see what happens. Perhaps we shall naively invoke the laws of karma on those who will pull Pritams on us. So if you use these quest...

Date: 7 Aug 2011 Set and Conducted by: Avaneendra Bhargav and Rohan Jain Format: Teams of 2 for elims. 29 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: 48 questions IR with round reversal. 1 written theme. Results 1st: Team C - J. Ramanand, Niranjan Pedanekar and Ranajeet Soman (draft) - 105pts 2nd: Team A - Padmanabhan Pillai, Akhil Singh and Ravi Handa (draft)- 75pts 3rd: Team B - Suraj Menon, Anubhav Chatterjee and B.V. Harishkumar (draft) - 70pts 4th: Team E - Yash Marathe, Debanjan Bose and Kaushik Koley (draft) - 65pts 5th: Team F - Salil Bijur, Amulya Sreekumar and Swapnil Pandit (draft) - 60pts 6th: Team D - Aditya Murarka, Saurabh Mishra and Rohit Iyer (draft) - 50pts Best school team: Best college team: Best newbie team: Report Although late in the calendar year, BCQC's formal quizzes were revived by a movie-themed qui...

The BCQC's Facebook Page is here . So now, if you want to join us and generally commingle, you have a variety of options: 1. The "inquizitive" Yahoogroup (get news) 2. The BCQC blog (read us, comment and rant) 3. The BCQC Twitter page (follow us, stalk us) 4. The bright new BCQC Facebook Page (join us, like us, get news) 5. ...and the BCQC site (which still remains out of commission due to some extreme makeovers underneath) (know all about us) Of course, there is the option of just ignoring us, in response to which we will immediately turn the other cheek.

After a hiatus of a year, the BCQC Open returns. Unlike in earlier times, the next set of Open Quiz days will only have one quiz per day. Here are the details: 'Cinéaste - The Movie Quiz' Quizmasters : Avaneendra and Rohan Flavour : Films Format : Written prelims; Finals with 6 teams (but with the Draft Pick system: after prelim, top 6 teams to qualify for finals, members of next 3 teams will be distributed among them.) Up to two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees Date & Time 7th August(Sunday) Timings : 10:30 am to 2:00 pm (report by 10:15 am) Written prelims: 10:30 to 11 Finals: 11:30 to 2 pm Venue Seminar Hall II, College of Engineering, Pune Contact Phone: Suraj (98903 59065), Rohan (98811 60507), Avaneendra (90110 40388) Email: suraj.sk[at]gmail.com Prizes 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 Tender Leave...

Organised by: IQA Conducted in Pune by: Amit Patil (many thanks!) Venue: COEP Number of participants: 17 Local Results - the 'worst' section score in brackets: 1st: Kunal Sawardekar: 101 (+7) 2nd: Ramanand: 98 (+6) 3rd: Suraj Menon: 89 (+5) 4th: Salil: 85 (+5) Section winners: Entertainment: Kunal, Mihir, Shivam Sharma (7 :-)) Culture: Kunal (11) Lifestyle: Suraj (21) Science: Kunal (16) History: Kunal (21) Media: Suraj, Ramanand (18) Sports: Salil, Suraj (11) World: Kunal (17) For more: keep an eye on this link . Bombay results here . Bangalore results here .

Important Update (posted 3 Jun) The location has changed - it will be held at Room No.13, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering , COEP (It is close to the Boat Club, and not on the Seminar Hall side). Reporting time remains 3:30 pm. The schedule is: Paper 1 from 4 to 5, then Paper one checking & scores, Paper 2 commences, followed by final scores. This is a solo written competition consisting of 8 sections (of 30 qns each) to be solved in 2 hours. Date: 4th June 2010 (Saturday) Saturday, June 4 · 4:00pm - 6:00pm (Report by 3:30 pm) Location: Room no. 6 , Seminar hall 2 , College Of Engineering , Pune [Near the Library and Gymkhana] Local coordinator: Amit Patil Registration: Free, but mandatory to ensure your seat. Since the no. of registrations will be used to print answer sheets, and only a handful of extra answer sheets will be available for "on the spot" registrations, book early to confirm your seat. To register, write to Amit at amitpatil2020@gmail.com For t...

Organised by: KQA Conducted in Pune by: Vishwajeet Narvekar (many thanks as usual!) Venue: COEP (thanks to Mihir, Gaurav and other students for the arrangements) School Winner: Rohan College Winner: Aniket Khasgiwale(39) Open Category Winner: J. Ramanand (59) Number of participants: ~30 Official final standings: keep an eye on this link . All scores are provisional pending adjudication. According to the KQA twitter feed , Arul Mani has won this year's Mahaquizzer with 87 points.

When: 22nd May, 2011 Where: BC, Pune By: Aniket, Aditya Gadre, Yash Marathe This year’s edition saw more major changes to the format. It has now moved away from the head-to-head knockout contests to a conventional quizzing IR format - a positive move IMO. Format: First, an elim determines 8 qualifiers. The qualifiers took part in a 60 qn format, after which 4 are eliminated. Scores are reset and another 36 qn semi takes place. The final is a one-to-one contest like last year's contest. The match consists of a home leg and an away leg. Home is basically direct questions. If one gets a direct question wrong and the opponent answers, it counts as an away goal and is used for tie breakers. Group stages The prelims cutoff was 12.5, with a top score of 19 by Anand. The 8 qualifiers in random order were: Anand, Suraj, Annanya, Kaushik, Srinath, Ramanand, Pradeep, and Dipanjan. Pradeep took his spot after a tie-break decider (just the beginning of the day for him). The Quarter F...

"Mahaquizzer" is India's biggest solo quiz. This year's edition will be held on the 29th of May (Sunday) from 10 am. Prior registrations are recommended as different venues have different seating capacities, and on-the-spot registrations cannot be guaranteed. Plus, this helps the organisers plan better. In Pune, the Quiz will be held at: Seminar Hall II (Next to main Auditorium), College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), Shivajinagar, Pune-5 Coordinator & KQA Proctor: Vishwajeeth Narvekar (98201-09984) The quiz is open to all and there are prizes for local winners in categories such as School, College, Open and Lady entrant. In Pune, we will be sponsoring additional prizes for schools and colleges. The rest of the details can be found at this KQA link . To check if you are registered, visit this link . * Previous results and reports from Pune * Questions from earlier editions .

This is the BCQC's annual individual, open quiz to crown the Best Sports Quizzer. This is the third edition. ( Reports for 2009 and 2010 editions) Format: "This is vastly, hugely mindbogglingly big quiz - if you thought Anand's lit quiz was long, that's just peanuts compared to this" - Douglas Adams First, a 30 question elim determines 8 qualifiers . These 8 people take part in a 60 question quarter final. The top four go through to the semi final. The semi-final will consist of 34 questions with scoring reset to zero. This is to keep the 'winning three consecutive matches' concept constant from last year's edition. The top two then go to the final. The finalists will then face off one-on one for a 24 question final. The 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 rul...

QM: Navin Jayakumar Results: 1st: The Dukes of Cambridge, .... - Shubhankar Gokhale, Srinath and Abhinav Dasgupta : 64 pts 2nd: The Travelling Pillsburys - Vibhendu Tiwari, Sumant Srivathsan and Anil Kothuri: 49 pts 3rd: Sigh Babas of Put-a-party - Salil Bijur, Yash Marathe and Aditya Gadre: 44 pts 4th: Ani Uris - Taking the 'p' out of pani puris - Anand Sivashankar, Amit Garde and Meghashyam Shirodkar : 44 pts* Other Finalists Your guess is as good as mine - Prasann Potdar, Amit Pandeya and Francis R Swami and friends - Alagarsamy, Nitish Khadiya and J Krishnamurthy Hazare Khwaeishen Aisi - Subhashish, Navin Sharma and [one more person] Born Losers Aniruddha Dutta and two more gentlemen (TCS) * Lost on tie breaker This year's Landmark open had a rather simple elim set which arguably led to a few surprises with regard to the finalists. A tougher elims would perhaps been a bit more fair and ensured that the best 8 teams in the auditorium qualified for the final. T...

For the Yash Marathe Prize (the prize is named after the best college quizzer of the previous year!) Who can participate : Any (full time) college student from a Pune college . 11th standard onwards. Please carry a college identity card if you are not a BCQC regular (we will be polite in case we challenge your presence) When : 27th March (Sunday) . Reporting Time: To be announced What: A general quiz. Written eliminations (Please get a pen), 8 qualifiers in the final. This is a solo quiz. Venue: BC Lawns, COEP Prizes : for all finalists; also for best first year participant & junior college participant Registration: Mail yashcmarathe@gmail.com or adityadgadre@gmail.com to register. This is largely to make sure we have elim sheets for everyone. Alternatively you can also call Yash Marathe (9890102888) Aditya Gadre (9881101291) Note: The quiz is strictly for college quizzers from Pune, so we aren't inviting entries from outside. Also, the quiz is meant for student quizzers, so...

Our website, http://bcqc.org is undergoing change, so it won't be available for the next few days. Mails sent to @bcqc.org addresses are also likely to be affected for some time, so in case you need anything, please leave a comment here on this blog.

Sumant reviews the newly launched and recently conducted BQC-IIT Bombay quizzes here .

Pune Institute of Computer Technology will be organizing their annual quiz Prahelika. The details are as follows: Date: 24th March 2011 (Thursday) Time: Elims 10:15 am and Finals 12:00 pm Venue: Pune Institute Of Computer Technology, Sr. No 27, Pune-Satara Road, Dhankawadi, Pune 411043 Eligibilty: College Teams only Team size: 2 per team, Top 6 teams to qualify for the finals. Registration: Rs.50/- per team, on the spot registrations allowed. Register online or contact 9762123762 Prizes: Worth Rs 10,000/-, Special prizes for the Audience, Best Team Name & Best team Slogan Contact details: Sumaer Bahl (9762123762)

Sinhagad College of Engineering will be organizing their annual Sinhagad Open quiz. The details are as follows: Date: 5th March 2011 Time: 11am Venue: IT seminar hall, Sinhgad college of engineering, Pune Team size: Maximum of 2 per team Registration: Fee of Rs 80, on the spot registrations allowed. Prizes: 1st Rs 9000, 2nd Rs 3000 Hosted by: Sameer Jagdale Contact details: Sameer Jagdale 9923072228

Cummins College of Engineering for Women (Mech Dept.) will be organizing a quiz titled TrizQuiz  as a part of its inaugural edition of a technical event - Triz 2011. The details are as follows, Date:  March 13, 2011 (Sunday) Theme:  General Time:  10:30am Team size:  2 (for UG college students with valid I-cards,  on-the-spot registrations are allowed ) Prizes:  Cash prizes worth ` 5k Conducted by:  Avaneendra Bhargav and Nikhil Motlag Registration fee:   ` 50 per team Venue:  MKSSS's Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Karvenagar, Pune - 411052 (get directions to the college  here ) For more details, contact: Nikhil - 98608 04350 Avaneendra - 90110 40388 else check  the event website

Date: 19 Feb, 2011 Venue: Army Institute of Technology, Pune Set and conducted by: Meghashyam Shirodkar Theme: General Quiz Final Results Format: 35 qns in the prelims; 45 questions (IR) + Cluenatic round 1st: Anand Sivashankar + Anannya Deb (F) - 90* (tiebreak: 2) 2nd: Suraj Menon + Yash Marathe (B) - 90 (tiebreak: 1.5) 3rd: Niranjan Pedanekar + J. Ramanand (C) - 78 4th: Vikram Joshi + Srinath (E) - 72 5th: Sumant Srivathsan + Vibhendu Tewari (A) - 67.5 6th: Sachin Ravi + George Mathew (D) - 35 Report The "General B.C.Joshi" quiz is back. The quiz from AIT that had set high standards of organisation in the 'days of yore' began in 1998, stumbled a little in the early years of the last decade, and then ran out of steam after 2005. So, for those of us with fond memories of AIT's quizzing history, it was great to see the quiz being 'rebooted' (as the QM mentioned more than once). For the record, with all the pedantry befitting a quiz, the B....

Date: 13 Feb, 2011 Venue: Armed Forces Medical College, Pune Set and conducted by: Lt. Col. Nikhil Moorchung (Finals) Theme: General Quiz Final Results Format: 30 qns in the prelims; 40 questions in IR with a round reversal halfway 1st: Meghashyam Shirodkar + Salil Bijur (A) - 110 2nd: Suraj Menon + Avaneendra Bhargav (B) - 80 Jt 3rd: Kshitij Jyoti + Saikat Sarkar (C) - 50 Jt 3rd: Gaurav Parab + Amneet Sodhi (E) - 50 5th: Yash Marathe + Aditya Chandorkar (D) - 40 6th: Salil Jena + Arjun Kurup (F) - 30

Date: 11 Feb, 2010 Venue: MES Auditorium, Bal Shikshan Mandir, Pune Set by: Ramanand, Salil Bijur, Yash Marathe Conducted by: Ramanand Theme: Indian Heritage Quiz Final Results Format: 20 qns in the prelims; Finals: 27 questions (2 rounds of 9 each in IR; 2 written rounds on stamps (4 qns) and geographical indications (5 qns)) 1st: Orchid School (Shantanu, Ameya, Gaurav) (D) - 90 2nd: Sevasadan (Omkar, Onkar, Anumit) (A) - 65 3rd: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Sulochana Natu Vidya Mandir (Prajwal, Harish, Shiva) (B)- 60 4th: Dr. Kalmadi Shamrao (Rugved, Vishnu, Janhavi) (C) - 55 Notes: Brief comments: * Quiz was organised by the makers of the Heritage India magazine ; the participants were from Pune schools in the age-group of 5th to 7th standards * About 20-25 teams from about 8-10 schools participated * Though tight at the beginning, Orchid pulled away from the rest in the second IR round and maintained their lead throughout * As is always the case with school children, ...

Heritage India Magazine is organising a quiz for Pune schools (in partnership with the BCQC). The gist: Date : 11th February 2011 Time : 11 am – 2 pm Venue : MES Balshikshan Auditorium, Mayur Colony, Kothrud, Pune Theme: India's culture and heritage For: school children in 5th, 6th, and 7th standards Teams: of up to 3 per team Quiz to be set and conducted by: BCQC Registration and all other details in this link (word document)

Date: 2 Feb, 2010 Venue: Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT), Pune Set and conducted by: Salil Bijur Theme: General Quiz Final Results Format: 31 qns in the prelims; 42 questions in IR with a round reversal halfway 1st: Niranjan Pedanekar + J. Ramanand (E) - 100 2nd: Meghashyam Shirodkar + Rohan Jain (C) - 70 Jt 3rd: Venkat Srinivasan + Suraj Menon (F) - 55 Jt 3rd: Dr. and Aditya Chandorkar (B) - 55 5th: Kshitij Jyoti + Saikat Sarkar of AFMC (A) - 20 6th: Kamesh Gupta + Mridul Janweja of AFMC (D) - 15 Notes: Brief comments: * liked the elims v much - good mix of gettable and tough ones * finals: were mostly good; occasional involved and 'nefarious' connect that could have been better, simplified or avoided * simple format, length of quiz was good, quizmastering was good, audience prizes were adequate * was nice to see two AFMC teams (all first years) on stage in an open quiz after a long while; a mini-revival is in store?

Date: 19th February Venue: Army Institute of Technology, Dighi Hills, Alandi Rd., Pune-411015 Open General Quiz; 2-member Teams Cross-college/Cross-corporate Teams allowed Attractive Cash Prizes: Rs. 10,000/-, Rs. 7,000/- & Rs. 5,000/- Special Prizes worth Rs. 3,000/- for the Audience, Best Team Name, etc. QuizMeister - Meghashyam Shirodkar | Research - QuizCorp (Transport to-from venue available on prior request) For more details: http://www.aitsolutions.in/p/bc-joshi-quiz_24.html

When: Friday, January 28, 2011 Where: Extentia ITT, Kalyani Nagar QM: Bobby Moothedan. Quiz set by Yash Marathe/BCQC Theme: General Email Quiz: As always an email quiz was sent to Extentians earlier in the week. Winners determined by # of correct answers and timestamp on email. Answers and winner ( Farah N and Pankaj Sontakke ) announced ahead of the Fri afternoon's quiz. Finals: Medium turnout at the ITT office this time – about 15 in all. Teams from the Extentia houses Most number of participants from Team Parikrama Difficult questions for Extentians this time. However, some great pickup on clues by most teams. The QM helmed the quiz really well for a first timer, and kept the momentum going. Good to see several new participants again Good to see no fights break out again Winners - Royal Brigade (Surbhi, Rahul D, Gaurav C, Vcat) Runners Up - Constant Variables (Farah, Pankaj S, Eva, Pankaj S)

The Shyam Bhatt Trophy Date: 13 Feb Sunday Flavour: Open General Team size: 2 member teams, cross teams allowed Time: Reporting time: 1430hrs; Elims begin at: 1445hrs Prizes: Cash prizes worth Rs. 10,000 Venue:New Lecture Hall Complex of AFMC(known as NLH) Reg. fee: Rs.150 Quiz-Friends and How I Met Your Mother Date- 14 Feb Reg. Fee: Rs.100 Time, Venue same as above Sports Quiz Date:16 Feb Reg. Fee: Rs.100 Time, Venue same as above Bollywood Quiz Date-17 Feb Reg. Fee:Rs.100 Time,Venue same as above NOTE: Finals for the Bollywood Quiz is an Antakshari :: Krishna, AFMC (9545046062)

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 everyone and not aimed specifically at astronomy enthusiasts. The quiz will consist of written prelims, followed by a six team final. 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) Date: 5th February, 2011 (Saturday) Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (reporting time: 9:30 a.m.) Venue: Main Auditorium, College of Engineering, Pune – 5 Flavour: Astronomy- for everyone Team: Two members per team; Teammates can be from different classes and cross school/ college. There is no registration fee. All participants must carry valid institute I-Cards. Email: quiztronomy@gmail.com Other...

The annual open quiz at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT) Pune, Quiz-O-Mania, will be conducted on 2nd Feb 2011 as a part of the cultural fest Melange. Details are as follows: Date: 2nd Feb, Wednesday Flavour: General Time: 10:30am (Reporting Time), Elims Begin at 10.45 sharp Venue: "Sharad Arena" (VIT Auditorium) Team size: 2 Teams that qualify for the finals: 6 Prizes: Cash prizes worth Rs 12,000 QM: Salil Bijur Location: Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, 666, Upper Indiranagar, Bibwewadi, Pune-37. For more details, check the event website

When: Jan 23, 2011; Sunday Where: COEP Turnout: Only 11 teams showed up Conducted by: Gaurav, Mihir and Vaibhav Results: 1st: Yash Marathe (Modern) & Omkar Nene (IIT-B) [95 pts] 2nd: Sameer Deshpande (VIT) & Bharat Marathe (MIT) [65 pts] 3rd: Tarun Sharma & Aditya Pawar (AIT) [60 pts] 4th: Shekhar Mehta & Neeraj Paradkar (DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering, Bombay) [50 pts] Low turnout didn't justify the quality of the quiz, could've been publicized better. As expected, there were quite a few repeats from 3 inexperienced quiz setters, but there were some very good questions all the same. Certainly better than the farce last year. Report by Yash Marathe

What: Landmark Quiz, Pune Round When: 22 Jan, 2011 Where: Nehru Memorial Hall, Pune Conducted by: Dr. Navin Jayakumar Results 1st: The Nawabs of Mahabs [Rajiv, Gopal, Sumo] (88) 2nd: Audio Killed the Radia Star [Vikram, Pradeep, Mukund] (70) 3rd: Travelling Pillsburies [Sumant, Anil, Vibhendu] (63) 4th: Also Known as QED [Samanth, Ramanan, Swami] (61) 5th: Pyaaz Hamein Kis Mod Pe Le Aaya [Suraj, Harish, Ramanand] (53) 6th: Nanachi Tang [Salil, Yash Marathe, Kunal Sawardekar] (42) 7th: Feni, Beedi, Wiki [Anand, Amit, Meghashyam] (40) 8th: Immaculate Misconceptions [Team from SAP] (39) Other Results Best Corporate Team: SAP Best School Team: Delhi Public School; Runners Up: Army Public School Best College: SIBM [Jai, Jai, Vikram] Best Team Name: "Wish Wiki would have leaked this quiz" [Arjun, Gyanendra, Baruni] Playstation Buzz challenge: Yash, St. Vincents Review comments can be posted in the comments section for this blog

Those who have been quizzing for a little over a decade may remember how difficult it once was to set questions for a quiz. One had to go digging into books, re-establish friendships with newspapers (even the Times of India), interrogate every multimedia frequency to pass through your TV's cathode ray tube, and generally mope around looking for visuals and audio and ideas. Then came the full wonders of the World Wide Web, and in particular the fourth and most important W: Wikipedia . Random Articles, Featured Articles, and Did You Know... came to our collective aid. Thousands of encyclopaedic minions, eager to show off their deep knowledge of the infinitesmal, rescued quizzes from lapsing into questions about George Bernard Shaw, The Beatles and (sometimes) Heisenberg's grave(s). (As Niranjan would put it, they left us 'encyclo-piidith'.) But like atomic weapons in the hands of Harry S or 24x7 TV in the hands of Rakhi S, some of us knew not what to do with the power...