Interrobang

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 ...