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MindSweep 2012 results in Pune (unofficial). 1st: Amit Garde - 52 points 2nd: Aditya Gadre -  51 points 3rd: Saikat Sarkar and Aniketh Rallabandhi - 24 points 4th: Rohan Danait - 18 points 5th: Ranajeet Soman - 16 points The final official results for both quizzes will be uploaded on the KQA's website soon.

The  T. A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal is conducting its  B-School Fest, Atharva, between 18th and 20th Jan, 2013 As a part of this fest, they will be hosting a business quiz, Quiz on the Beach. For the first time, a preliminary QOTB round will be held in Mumbai as well this year, to give participants the   chance to win cash prizes and also a wildcard entry to the Grand Finale to be hosted by Mr. Giri Balasubramanium, at Kaup Beach. Details: Team size: Teams of exactly two members Eligibility: Only students are allowed. Graduate and Post-Graduate Date: 21st November, 2012 Time: 5:30 pm Venue: Karnataka Sangha Hall, Matunga  Prizes: Cash prizes for the top three teams totaling to INR 15000 For more details, visit http://www.tapmi-atharva.com/site/qotb.php

Date: 21st Oct 2012 Conducted by: Aditya Gadre Attended by ~10 teams Format: 17 questions written elims; 2 written rounds; 60 questions on Infinite Rebounds with round reversal half-way; 5-question pounce. Results: 1st: Team E: Avaneendra Bhargav and Aditya Chandorkar + (Vikram Keskar and Gaurav Keskar): 165 pts 2nd: Team D: Kunal Sawardekar and Ranajeet Soman + (Omkar Dhakephalkar and Mustafa Abbas): 140 pts 3rd: Team B: Salil Bijur and Bharat Marathe + (Chinmay Tadwalkar and Shreyas Jaju): 115 pts 4th: Team A: Anand Viswanathan and Varun Singh + (Vibhav Bhave and Rohan Danait): 110 pts 5th: Team C: Vaibhav Bajpai and Anshuman Sharma + (Aniket Deshpande and Mihir Talnikar): 30 pts There was a low turnout for the quiz so all 10 teams were merged into 5 teams for the finals. Probably due to a late start and paucity of time and also the small number of teams, the QM chose to have only 17 questions for the prelims. This left scope for a lot more consumption of questions pe...

Set and conducted by : Vikram Keskar Format : 40 question written quiz (20 questions with a Calvin & Hobbes theme, 20 gen questions) Results: 1st : Aditya Gadre and Avaneendra Bhargav : 30.5 points 2nd : Kunal Sawardekar and Ranajeet Soman : 24 points Newbie team : 17.5 points (names not available) The quiz turned out to be only half C&H as the QM had difficulty finding enough questions. The questions were not C&H trivia but the many many pop-culture/philosophical references Watterson uses in the comic. There were quite a few philosophy related questions earlier on but with the QM's 'usual shtick' as he likes to call it, the cryptic clues were helpful in confirming guesses. The other 20 questions were good old general quiz type. The quality of the questions was good and they were well framed. There were numerous typos in the questions and one or two errors (Kunal had a field day pointing them out). The projector refused to be turned on (no pun here) ...

Date : 19-10-2012 Theme : General Set and Conducted by : Avaneendra Bhargav Format : 30 question elims.  Finals - 10 question written round, 18+18 IR Results:  1st place : Meghashyam Shirodkar, Niranjan Pedanekar, Amit Garde  132 points 2nd place : Ranajeet Soman, Aditya Chandorkar, Rohan Jain  65 points 3rd place : Sachin Ravi, Suraj Prabhu, Abhinav Pathak   28 points 4th place : Bharat Marathe, Omkar Dhakhephalkar, Debopriyo Moulik  22 points 5th place: Finehas Pinto + 2     21 points 6th place : CVR Shastry + 2     0 points The quiz started late by almost an hour and a half (nobody complained though).  There was a lot of bureaucratic decision making going on with teams made to sit in order of their registration numbers for no practical reason and time was wasted on petty issues. The elims were good with an even spread of topics. The lack of a projector was a hindrance as the teams sitting...

Who here is not a fan of Calvin and Hobbes? Vikram Keskar puts together a set of questions based on everyone's favourite cartoon strip. So transmogrify into that quiz nut, duplicate yourself in case you have other plans and be sure to feed that tiger at home - and come for the Calvin and Hobbes quiz this Sunday.  Quiz 1: Calvin and Hobbes themed written quiz Quizmaster : Vikram Keskar  Flavour : Calvin and Hobbes  Format :  Written quiz (bring a writing instrument) ; two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees Timings  1:00 pm to 2.00 pm  Date : 21st October (Sunday) Venue :  Seminar Hall II, College of Engineering, Pune  ~ ~ ~  Once upon a time there was a quiz. It was a nice quiz. It was a fun quiz. It was a quiz that everybody loved. It was the Durgotsav All Pune Open Quiz Championship organised by the Bangiya Samskriti Samsad. Thousands came every year to hear the that melodic Bengali v...

The most Bengali sounding non-Bengali Oboneendro (Avaneendra) Bhargav has set and will host this edition of the quiz which has a cult following in the city. Promises to be good. Show up to have a good time. On the spot registrations allowed.     P.S. There are food stalls with delicious Bong dishes at the venue. NOT complementary though.

Set by Amit Patil and Rohan Danait with inputs from Neelima Jha & Mihir Khatwani Theme: Science and Technology (Sci-Tech) Date/Venue: 5th October 2012, Auditorium (Elims) & Room No.13 at College of Engineering, Pune Format: 30 Question Elims, 46 Question Finals (18 IR +10 Special round (XKCD) + 18 IR Rev) Total Teams: 54 Results: 1st Place: Debanjan Bose and Hari Nair (Team F: Fish Curry Rice) - 135 pts [Elims: 26 (5*)] 2nd Place: Nikhil Motlag and Avaneendra Bhargav (Team B: Einstein Ke Frankenstein) - 115 pts[Elims: 16 (4*)] 3rd Place: Rohit Iyer and Ravi Handa (Team E: The Latecomers) - 110 pts [Elims: 20 (3*)] 4th Place: Ranajeet Soman and Sachin Ravi (Team D: Quizzing For Nirvana) - 45 pts [Elims: 20 (4*)] 5th Place: Abhishek Bagade and Ameya Bhagat (Team C: Yuva) - 25 pts [Elims: 18 (4*)] 6th Place: Harshal Sarda and Shantanu Hadgekar (Team A: Tech-Wizards) - 10 pts[Elims: 11 (3*) ] Best College Team (outside the finalists): Ayush Bhat and Yateen Kedare Eli...

Qonnoisseur- The MELA Quiz at COEP's MindSpark 2012 Conducted by Rohan Danait 1st: Swapnil and Akib: 150 pts 2nd: Kunal sawardekar and Avaneendra Bhargav: 115 pts 3rd: Aditya Gadre and Annanya Deb: 105 pts 4th: Ranajeet Soman and Rohan jain: 95 pts 5th: Ravi and Rohit: 75 pts 6th: Debanjan Bose and Hari Nair: 65 pts Positives: - The quiz was a huge contrast from Chakravyuh the previous day - the effort in setting the quiz was apparent. - The quiz started off with a nice elims set - a few questions could have been better framed but overall a good effort. - The elims were engaging and well conducted - a big thumbs up for a lot of visual content as well - The finals had quite a few nice questions - and most questions were well framed - The ppt was well thought out - everything we needed was on the slides - The caricatures round was really nice - Overall the quiz was light and interesting - most teams seemed to like it. Negatives: - After reminders and announce...

The Chakravyuh Open Quiz - A part of COEP's MindSpark 2012 Conducted by: Neelima Jha Attended by ~100 teams Results: 1st: Kunal Sawardekar and Avaneendra Bhargav: 120 pts 2nd: Aditya Gadre and Vikram Keskar: 115 pts 3rd: Debanjan Bose and Hari Nair: 60 pts 4th: Vikram Joshi and Abhinav Dasgupta: 40 pts 5th: Ranajeet Soman and Rohan jain: 20 pts 6th: Nikhil and Vishvesh: 5 pts This year's Chakravyuh happened on a Saturday, a welcome change from last year which meant that a few of us could travel from out-of-town to take part. The elims were, there is no other way to say this, bad. Ambiguously worded questions and no prior thought into what the expected answer was led to the post-elim period turning into a bargaining contest - teams tried to convince the QM about how their answer was correct as per their interpretation of the question and the QM actually gave in on far too many occasions. One thing that irritated me was that the visuals were run only at the en...

Name Score J Ramanand 73 Salil Bijur 63 Kunal Sawardekar 53 Ranajeet Soman 38 Rohan Danait 27 Debojyoti Adhikari 25 Mihir Talnikar 18

Date: 30th September, 2012 Venue: Boat Club, COEP,Pune Time: 1.30 PM The Big Q ( link ) is a written quiz for individuals conducted by the SEQC, Goa to find the Best Quizzer in Goa. Other quiz clubs are also taking the quiz in their respective locations (because that's how we like to spend our Sundays). 90 minutes 120 questions. Registration is compulsory, so that we can get the right number of sheets. Please register before 6 pm, 29th September 2012 for registration mail Avaneendra(avaneendrabhargav@gmail.com). For people planning to register on the spot, he will get only 5 extra sheets. And don't forget to get a pen/pencil along, and perhaps a writing pad for greater writing comfort.

MindSpark is the annual Technical fiesta of the College of Engineering, Pune. This year MindSpark will play host to 3 quizzes from 5th- 7th October 2012. Specifics Below. 1. TorQuest- The Science and Technology quiz Friday, 5th October, 2012 We wouldn't really be an institute of excellence in technical education unless our students were sound in their technical knowledge and fundas. Pit your love for technology against ours. Brush up your theory and find out how much you could actually apply it when you go out into the mad, mad world. Science and technology are inseparable, and this is a quiz where the passion for both would find a home. Status: Open Quiz (anyone can Participate) Team size: 2 Registration fees: Rs. 50/- per team. Register on the spot. 2. Chakravyuh- the Open General Quiz Saturday , 6th October, 2012 Timing: 11:00 am to 4:30 pm. Venue: The Auditorium, College of Engineering, Pune Chakravyuh has been one of Pune's best known open qui...

Name   Category Score Debanjan Bose Student 28(1*) Aniket Rallabhandi Student 24(2*) Hari S Nair Student 24(1*) Kunal Sawardekar Open 43(2*) Ranajeet Soman Open 27(2*) Avaneendra Bhargav Open 15(1*)

The BCQC September Open Quiz - Morning Quiz Date: 2nd September 2012 Set and Conducted by: Avaneendra Bhargav and Rohan Jain Format: Teams of 2 for elims.  25 questions written elims. Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams were asked to join finalist teams. Teams of 3 for finals. Results 1st: Sumant Srivathsan, Vibhendu Tewari and Sushrut (draft) - 75 pts* 2nd: Aditya Gadre, Aniket Khasgiwale and Rohan Danait (draft)- 75 pts 3rd: Anannya Deb, Shubhankar Gokhale and Alok Kulkarni (draft)  - 70 pts 4th: Amit Garde, Anand Sivashankar and Kunal Sawardekar(draft) - 55 pts 4th: Ranajeet Soman, Aditya Chandarkar and Samrat Sengupta (draft) - 55 pts 6th: Ravi Handa, Rohit Iyer and Rohit Bhaskar (draft) - 30 pts * Won via a sudden death tie-braker Prizes sponsored by BCQC Report: Overall I really liked the quiz and it must be said that the quiz was far better than the corresponding fixture last year. The elims were nice - light and interestin...

Date : 2nd September 2012 Set and Conducted by: Anannya Deb Format:  Teams of 2 for elims.  35 questions written elims. Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams were asked to join finalist teams. Teams of 3 for finals. Results 1st: Sumant Srivathsan, Vibhendu Tewari and Rahul (draft) - 155 pts 2nd: Amit Garde, Anand Sivashankar and Rohit (draft)- 105 pts 3rd: Vikram Joshi, Abhinav Dasgupta and Avaneendra Bhargav(draft) - 100 pts 4th: J Ramanand, Samrat Sengupta and Kunal Sawardekar(draft) - 100 pts* 5th: Debanjan Bose, Hari Nair and Rohan Jain (replaced by Arnold D'Souza)(draft) - 60 pts 6th: Aditya Gadre, Aniket Khasgiwale and Shubhankar Gokhale (draft) - 30 pts * Lost out on lower elims score Prizes sponsored by BCQC Report The quiz started with an excellent 35 question elim - great questions, interesting fundas and a lot of AV content. Sumant and Vibhendu topped the elim with 24 with the rest of the teams making up the finalists bunched...

Rome was not built in a day, and neither was this quiz.  Following the Movies Quiz in the morning, Anannya Deb  (aka Sports Gawd, Hemisphere Gawd, Finger Gawd, Map Gawd, Ent Gawd and many more)   will pull out of his beard  a ton of super interesting questions. You'd have to be an idiot (or a maoist) to miss this.    Administrivia Thodasa Roomani Ho Jaye Quizmaster : Anannya Deb Flavour : General Format :  Prelims and then finals format; two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees Timings  1:30 pm to 5.30 pm  Date : 2 September (Sunday) Venue :  Seminar Hall II, College of Engineering, Pune 

               Set and Conducted by: Avaneendra Bhargav and Rohan Jain   Date: 2nd September (Sunday) Venue : College of Engineering, Pune Flavour : Movies   Format:  Written Prelims and then Finals format; no prior registration needed; no entry fees. Teams of 2.   Timings : 10 am to 1 pm  starts by 9:30 (report by 9.15 am)

 The BCQC July Open Quiz  Date: 22nd July 2012 Set and Conducted by: Debanjan Bose and Hari Nair Format: Teams of 2 for elims.  25 questions written elims. Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams were asked to join finalist teams. Teams of 3 for finals. 8 pounces per team. Pounces divided in two sets of 4 per set of 18 IB questions. Scoring: Omkar and Debopriyo Results 1st: Team F - Saikat Sarkar, Kshitij Jyoti and Ranajeet Soman(draft) - 165 pts 2nd:Team C - Samrat Sengupta, Swaminathan Dixit and Ravi Handa (draft)- 130 pts 3rd: Team D - Vibhav Bhave, Rohan Danait and Alok Kulkarni (draft) - 108 pts 4th: Team B - Suraj Prabhu, Abhinav Pathak and Aniketh Rallabhandi (draft) - 105 pts 5th: Team E - Rohan Jain (replaced by Arnold D'Souza), Nikhil Motlag and Nikhil (draft) - 90 pts 6th: Team A - Mrudul, Abhijit and Avaneendra Bhargav(draft) - 65 pts Prizes sponsored by BCQC Report A very low scoring elimination round did not quite...

BCQC College Quizzer of the Year a.k.a The Mohit Karve Memorial Quiz Date: 22 July 2012 Set by :  Mohit Karve Conducted by: Avaneendra Bhargav Format: 30 question elims & 42 question finals with intrinsic theme connect Top 6 solo quizzers in finals. Scoring: Rohan Jain Results 1st:  Aniketh Rallabhandi - 85 points 2nd: Ranajeet Soman - 60 points 3rd: Debanjan Bose - 50 points 4th: Hari Nair - 45 points 5th: Saikat Sarkar - 40 points 6th: Kshitij Jyoti - 25 points Prizes sponsored by BCQC, Landmark Elims cutoff: 13 Report  Around 15 quizzers showed up for this annual college quiz; a turnout lower than expected. The elims were not very tough though quite a few participants were put off by questions about things in vogue in the mid 2000s. The finals contained some "gentle full-tosses" (as some like to call it) which would have been more in place in the elims. Overall the questions were good with very few going unanswered. It was a close quiz for ...

Date: 22 July (Sunday) Venue Boat Club, College of Engineering, Pune Quiz 1: "BCQC college quizzer of the year" Questions by : Mohit Karve Conducted by: Avaneendra Bhargav Flavour : General Format :  Prelims and then finals format; no prior registration needed; no entry fees Timings 10 am to 1 pm  (report by 9.45 am)

July 2012 BCQC Open - General The open quiz by the BCQC on Sunday (22nd July), a general quiz   Date: 22 July (Sunday) Venue Seminar Hall II, College of Engineering, Pune Quiz 2: "The July Open" Quizmasters : Debanjan Bose and Hari Nair Flavour : General Format :  Prelims and then finals format; two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees Timings 2 pm to 5.30 pm  (report by 1.45 pm)