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Tender Leaves is organising a corporate quiz for IT companies as part of a fund-raiser for "Teach For India". Details below and this link .

Date: 10 Jun 2012 Set and Conducted by: Suraj Menon Format: Teams of 2 for elims. ~30 teams participated. 30 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. Finals: 1 List It, 2 rounds on Infinite Rebounds, 1 LVC, 1 written connect round. Scoring: Maitreyi & Samrat Results 1st: Team A - Sumant, Anannya, and Shubhankar (draft) - 205 pts 2nd: Team C - Aditya Gadre, Gaurav Keskar, and Abhinav Dasgupta (draft)- 190 pts 3rd: Team B - Harish, Aniket, and Ramanand (draft) - 160 pts 4th: Team D - Vikram Keskar, Ranajeet Soman, and Vikram Joshi (draft) - 140 pts 5th: Team E - Aditya Chandorkar, Rohan Jain, and Suraj Prabhu (draft) - 100 pts 6th: Team F - Samridh, Yogarshi, and Nikhil Motlag (draft) - 70 pts Prizes sponsored by BCQC Elims cutoff: 17; highest: 29 (Sumant and Anannya) Report Probably suffering from that oft-seen condition of being set too late, this quiz had its fair sha...

When: 10th June, 2012 Where: BC, Pune By: Aniket Khasgiwale, Aditya Gadre, Yash Marathe Format: First, a 30 question elim determines 8 qualifiers (or as Quarter finalists). 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 36 questions with scoring reset to zero. The finalists will then face off one-on one for a 28 question final. The match consists of a home leg and an away leg. Home leg essentially means your direct questions. If one gets a direct question wrong which the opponent answers, it counts as an away goal and is used for tie breakers (as per UEFA rules ). Group stages The fourth edition of the BCQC's megalithic sports quiz began with a low scoring and very close prelim. The prelims cutoff was 10.5, with a top score of 14 by Sumant and Suraj. The 8 qualifiers in random order were: Sumant, Suraj, Annanya, Kaushik, Samrat,Ranajeet, Aniket R and Shubhankar. Shubhankar took his spot after a ...

Organised by: IQA Conducted in Pune by: Amit Patil (many thanks once again!) Venue: COEP Number of participants: 12 Local Results - score is total, including worst score (which is also in brackets): 1st: Kunal Sawardekar: 106 (+5) [Kunal's superb streak of winning the Pune round remains intact] 2nd: Ramanand: 94 (+6) 3rd: Suraj Menon: 85 (+9) Section winners: Entertainment: Suraj (11) [provoking cries of "Ent God", naturally] Culture: Kunal, Sastry Lifestyle: Kunal Science: Kunal History: Kunal (23) Media: Ramanand Sports: Ramanand World: Kunal, Sastry Overall results at this link .

This is the BCQC's annual solo, open quiz to crown the Best Sports Quizzer. This is the fourth edition. ( Reports for 2009 , 2010 and 2011 editions). This year we plan to make a couple of changes - the number of questions have increased from 148 to 154 (a small change) and the prize money has more than doubled (not-so-small change). The quiz is coupled with the BCQC's June Open Quiz to be conducted by the inaugural BC Cup champ Suraj Menon Format:     First, a 30 question elim determines 8 qualifiers (or as Quarter finalists). 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 36 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 28 question final. The match consists of a home leg and an away leg...