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Part I of the BC InFest 2013/14 takes place this coming Sunday (see overall InFest schedule here ). Venue: All quizzes will take place at the Boat Club, College of Engineering Pune. Schedule: The schedule for our more-or-less annual more-or-less "Quiz" fest is as follows (more-or-less) 29th December 2013: 11:30 am: We begin the anti-fest with a set of "Auto-biographical" Quizzes, set by some of the BCQC's expats based on their own experiences, travels etc. The quiz will be curated by Samrat Sengupta 12:30 pm: Aniket Khasgiwale will be doing his QI style quiz. 1:45 - 2:30pm: We break for lunch 2:30 pm: We conduct our mastermind style individual specialty themes quiz. We have some great topics, quite a high-profile participant pool and an equally (if not more) high-profile question setter list. Here is the list of all participants, their topics and question setters.

Quite a good year for Pune quizzers at the second Mahaquizzer of the year. J. Ramamand makes the top 10 in India with a score of 63/150 Other quizzers who took the quiz in Pune and finished in the top 100 were: 29th: Nilay Puntambekar (51/150) 83rd: Saikat Sarkar (33/150) 92nd: Aniketh Rallabhandi (30/150) Also Srisha Haridas just missed out on the top 100 with 28/150 getting a rank of 105 Regular Pune quizzer Suraj Menon (took the quiz from Mumbai this year) won the All India College title with a score of 60 - finishing rank 15th in the country on the open section

Announcing schedule for BCQC.orgy 2013/14 The quiz anti-fest that no one has really been waiting for is here. Meh.  Venue: All quizzes will take place at the Boat Club, College of Engineering Pune.  Schedule: The schedule for our more-or-less annual more-or-less "Quiz" fest is as follows (more-or-less) 29th December 2013: 11:30 am: We begin the anti-fest with a set of "Auto-biographical" Quizzes, set by some of the BCQC's expats based on their own experiences, travels etc. The quiz will be curated by Samrat Sengupta 12:30 pm: Aniket Khasgiwale will be doing his QI style quiz. 1:45 - 2:30pm: We break for lunch 2:30 pm: We conduct our mastermind style individual specialty themes quiz - Infest-you-us. Over 30 people have registered - so we have over 300 questions on a variety of very interesting topics! 5th January 2014 11:30 am : We begin with a surprise quiz by resident bong quizzers - Oboneendro Bhargav & Debanjan Bose. We are told the qui...

KQA quizzes this Sunday. Mahaquizzer (solo event) starts at 9:30 am, AsiaSweep (team event) at 2:30 pm. Prior registration is a must for both events to allow proctors a chance to get the correct number of sheets. Links to register: http://kqaquizzes.org/asiasweep/ and http://kqaquizzes.org/mahaquizzer/ Pune venue: COEP Academic Complex, COEP, Shivajinagar, Pune.

(based on information sent in by Rohan Danait) On October 24, a quiz for COEP students was held at COEP, aimed at introducing them to quizzing and to the BCQC. The quiz was set by Chinmay Tadwalkar and Mustafa Abbas (SE students) with Rohan's guidance. 20-25 teams of two members participated in the elims, from which 6 teams + 3 draft picks were selected for the finals. (Rohan says: around 15-20 people said they were interested in quizzing and would like to attend more quizzes in the future.) The finalists: 1st place: Omkar Borate, Anubhav Tiwari, Swapnil Ahire 2nd place: Atharva Deshpande, Darshan Jaware, Animesh Bora 3rd place: Mruganayani Nagur, Ipshita Paul, Devyani Salokhe The other finalists were: 4) Nishant Bhumare, Vibhav Tungar, Kaustubh Shakkarwar 5) Divyansh Saxena, Rohan Manatkar, Urvi Purohit 6) Devashree Ragde, Sanket Gurikar, Simran Batra More such events are being planned for COEP quizzers, including the finals of Abhimanyu in the coming months.

Set by Ramanand J, Harish Kumar Conducted by: J Ramanand Flavour: General Attended by ~30 teams Format: Written elims of 25 questions. Finals (2*10 questions on IR (with One-finite Pounce per half) and one written round on sobriquets (5 qns) Results: 1st: Saikat Sarkar and Kshitij Jyoti (AFMC): 120 pts (19/6* in prelims) 2nd: Suraj Prabhu (FC) and Aniketh Rallabhandi (SCOE): 95 pts (19/4*) Jt 3rd: Rohan Danait and Vibhav Bhave (COEP): 70 pts (17) Jt 3rd: Nirmoho Banerjee and Samridh Kapur (AIT): 70 pts (16) 5th: Debopriyo Moulik (ILS) and Pranav Pawar (MESCOE): 50 pts (16) Five teams were included in the finals instead of the four previously advertised because of a almost-dead tie between the 4th and 5th teams to qualify. The One-finite Pounce system: teams are allowed to 'pounce' on questions in a half for +10 and no negatives. But if they get a pounce attempt wrong, they forfeit the chance to pounce for the rest of the round. The top two teams will now go thr...

What: Conundrums is the Mood Indigo (IIT Bombay) General Quiz. Two preliminary rounds are being organised in Pune and Chennai, ahead of the preliminary, semis, and finals in Mumbai in December Who is this for: College students in Pune What's at stake: The Pune prelims give two teams a direct entry into the semi final stage in December. You don't have to fight the large number of competitive teams in the Mumbai prelims for a place in the semis. And if you don't qualify here, you can always go to Mumbai for one more attempt. The General Quiz final during Mood Indigo has cash prizes worth Rs. 30,000/- When: the Pune round will be held on 12 Oct (Sat) at 2 pm Where: COEP (hall to be confirmed) What's the format: there will be a 25 question written prelim, followed by a stage final for the top 4 teams. 2 teams will make it to the semis. Who is setting/conducting the quiz: Ramanand & Harish are setting. Ramanand will conduct. What do I ...

Set and Conducted by Abhishek "_logik" Upadhya, Maitreyi "mitt" Gupta, and V "Venkat" Cat. Flavour: General Attended by: about 10 teams Format: Elims 30 qs, Finals 15 (IR + infinite pounce) + 6 (Mind of a quizzer round) + 15 (IR + infinite pounce) = 36 qs Elims highest: J. Ramanand & Samridh Kapur - 19.5 Elims cut-off : 9 (7 for draft) Results: 1st: J. Ramanand, Samridh Kapur, Avaneendra Bhargava (draft) - 140 2nd: Kunal Sawardekar (left halfway), Suraj Prabhu, Dinesh (draft) & Mayuri (draft) - 120 3rd: Anurakshat Gupta & Kshitij Jyoti - 115 4th: Aditya Pawar, Ayush Agrawal, Anubhav Chatterjee (draft) - 90 5th: Alok Singh, Daipayan Roy, Neil Sarkar (draft) - 60 6th: Saahil Singh, Kiran Sai(?), Vivek Dubey + 1 - 40 Despite the lack of glaciers, this was an excellent quiz. I particularly enjoyed the prelims: wide variety of topics, interestingly framed, and trademark good-bad-useful puns from Abhishek. Once again, given the number of...

Set and Conducted by: Ayush Agrawal Format: 30 written questions on Music, the Military and some other topics whose names begin with the thirteenth letter of the alphabet. Results: 1st: Abhishek Upadhya and Kunal Sawardekar - 23.5 pts Jt. 2nd: Samridh Kapur and Aditya Pawar - 17 pts Jt. 2nd: Anurakshat Gupta and Kshitij Jyoti - 17 pts A very enjoyable start to the quizzing day. I especially liked the military section of the quiz (as much of a shock that may be to many of you) which, in spite of an audience with quite a bit of exposure to the military milieu, educated as well as entertained us. The other "M"s were a teensy-weensy bit on the easy side but also enjoyable and workable. My one crib was with the multiple-answer questions - but those seem to have become a cultural phenomenon as ubiquitous and irrepressible (no matter how much one tries to repress it) as twerking. Got something to say / add? Please feel free to have a go in the comments.

The Chakravyuh Open Quiz - A part of COEP's MindSpark 2012 Set by Vibhav Bhave, Rohan Danait and others  Conducted by: Vibhav Bhave Attended by ~100 teams Format: Written elims of 30 questions. Finals comprising 36 questions on IR (with 3 pounces per half) and one LVC Results: 1st: Meghashaym Shirodkar and Amit Garde: 150 pts 2nd: Kunal Sawardekar and Avaneendra Bhargav: 145 pts 3rd: J Ramanand and BV Harish Kumar: 135 pts 4th: Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgiwale: 115 pts 5th: Shrirang Raddi and Ankush: 105 pts 6th: Abhishek Upadhya and Debanjan Bose: 100 pts This edition of Chakravyuh was certainly more "quizzer friendly" than last year with more mainstream (perhaps some would say "normal") questions.  The elims were largely simple and very high scoring with the top score being 27.5/30  and the cut off being 22. Vcat & Rohan and Saikat & Kshitij were unlucky to miss out on the tie break. The elims were quite good with a reasonable ran...

On Sunday, the 6th of October, 2013 - we conduct two open quizzes.  Quiz I:  "M" Time: 11:00 am Flavour:  Music, Millitary, Mysteries and "More" QM: Ayush Agrawal Teams: Teams of two. Format: This is a written quiz (~35 questions)- so please bring a writing instrument. Quiz II:   Quizowski                                   Time: 2:00 pm Flavour: General  QMs: Abhishek Upadhya, Maitreyi Gupta and Venkat Srinivasan Teams: Teams of two. Format: Written elims followed by finals for the top 9 teams Venue: The venue for both the quizzes will be  Extentia Information Technology, Nilanjali Housing Colony, Kalyani Nagar, Pune. You can put this in to google maps to figure out the exact location.  Basic Directions : Come onto North main road in Koregaon park - turn onto the bridge towards adlabs - go straight past adlabs and take a left when ...

Quiz Vuiz Tey Question Purana Set and Conducted by Samrat Sengupta Format: Written elims of 20 question with the teams getting points in the final to start off depending on elim standings Final of 18 questions on Infinite Rebounds, 18 questions on 6 Speciality topics (6 x 3), 2 List its and 6 questions on differential scoring. Standings: 1st: Team F: Kunal Sawardekar, Aditya Gadre and Aditya Karve : 161 points 2nd: Team B: J Ramanand, Tadatmya and Anubhav Chatterjee: 151 points 3rd: Team D: Ayush Agarwal, Aditya Pawar and Alok : 108 points 4th: Team A: Venkat Srinivasan, Rohan Jain, Abhishek Upadhya and Ameya: 82 points 5th: Team C: Suraj Prabhu, Venkat and Samridh: 66 points 6th: Team E: Alok Singh, Daipayan Roy, Maitreyi Gupta: 50 points 9 teams showed up, so the elims were more of a means of deciding who gets the starting advantage rather than actual eliminations. After the rather low scoring elims (Top two scores were only 9.5 and 8.5 with most other teams bunch...

The Pub Quiz Set and Conducted by Aditya Gadre Format: A written quiz of 41 questions with a total of 44 poitns to score on th topics of Food, Alcohol and Pop Music Results: 1st: Venkat Srinivasan and Rohan Jain: 18 points 2nd: Samrat Sengupta and Maitreyi Gupta: 12 points Overall the quiz was low scoring (I expected the scores to be more in the 15-20 range). That said, the quiz was remarkably even with almost all the teams in the 11-12 range - with Samrat and Maitreyi just making it past to get second place. Vcat and Rohan were in great form and were miles ahead on 18. Please leave your feedback in the comments section. 

The College of Engineering, Pune will be organizing three quizzes as a part of its technical festival MindSpark'13. The quizzes are spread over three days - September 27th, 28th and 29th 1. Torquest - The Science and Technology Quiz College Quiz Date: 27th September (Friday) Contact: Omkar Yarguddi +91 78751 50078 2. Chakravyuh - The General Quiz Open Quiz Date: 28th September (Saturday) Contact: Vibhav Bhave +91 99224 12867 3. Quonoisseur - The MELA Quiz College Quiz Date: 29th September (Sunday) Contact: Rujul Godse: +91 98500 86949 For any other general queries please contact: Rohan Danait: +91 98505 53038 or visit our website

On Sunday, the 22th of September, 2013 - we conduct two open quizzes.  Quiz I:  The Pub Quiz Time: 10:30 am Flavour:  Food, Alcohol and Popular Music Teams: Teams of two. Format: This is a written quiz (~35 questions)- so please bring a writing instrument. Quiz II:   Quiz Vuiz Tey Question Purana                                      Time: 1:30 pm Flavour: General  Teams: Teams of two. Format: Written elims followed by finals for the top 9 teams Venue: The venue for both the quizzes will be  Extentia Information Technology, Nilanjali Housing Colony, Kalyani Nagar, Pune. You can put this in to google maps to figure out the exact location.  Basic Directions : Come onto North main road in Koregaon park - turn onto the bridge towards adlabs - go straight past adlabs and take a left when you see the Bounty Hotel on your left, enter lane no 12 a...

Date: 25 August 2013 Set, Curated by: Mohit Karve & Avaneendra Bhargav Conducted by: Avaneendra Bhargav Format: It was supposed to be a written quiz but since only 10 teams turned up, I divided them into 8 teams and conducted the quiz on infinite pounce Result:  Abhishek Upadhya, Maitreyi Gupta - 1st Rohan Danait, VIbhav Bhave & Alok Kulkarni - 2nd Suraj Prabhu + 2 - 3rd  (I just remember that the first team had 300 points. If any one else remember the points please let me know in the comments)

Date: 25 August 2013 Set, Curated and Conducted by: Anannya  "Dada" Deb Format: Teams of 2 for the Prelims; top 6 teams plus 3 draft teams in the Finals; 2 Rounds of IR with 18 Questions each, 4 Rounds of thematically connected "Threesomes" worth 5 points each; Infinite Bounce on the IR Rounds (+15/-10) Result:  Vikram Joshi, Sumit & Kshitij Jyoti - 65 points Anubhav Chatterjee, Roshit & Debanjan Bose - 60 points Rohan Danait, Saikat Sarkar & Alok Kulkarni - 45 points Kunal Sawardekar, Saahil Singh & Archis Katti - 30 points Suraj Prabhu + 2 - 25 points (You didn't write your names on the sheet, guys - let us know in the comments and we'll put them up) Abhishek Upadhyaya, Maitreyi Gupta & Kartik Ganesh - 20 points Report: I always associate Dada with quizzes that are more "subaltern" than what we are used to at the BCQC, and this time was not an exception. While subaltern-ness is always welcome, what I especially...

On Sunday, the 25th of August, 2013 - we conduct two quizzes.  Quiz I:  Laplace's demons Time: 10:30 am Flavour:  Science and Technology Teams: Teams of two. Format: This is a written quiz (~35 questions)- so please bring a writing instrument. Quiz II:   A Touch of Grey (You will be grateful you are not dead)* Bombay-based Quiz Gawd Anannya "Dada" Deb will be returning to the BCQC to conduct yet another wide-ranging, interesting and in all aspects brilliant quiz.  Time: 1:30 pm Flavour: General  Teams: Teams of two. Format: Written elims followed by finals for the top 9 teams * Grateful Dead reference. Dada will not kill you. Really.  Venue: The venue for both the quizzes will be the Academic Complex, College of Engineering, Pune.  

Date: 4 Aug 2013 Set and Conducted by: B V Harish Kumar Flavour: General Format: Teams of 3 for prelims. ~20 teams participated. 2 rounds of Infinite Rebounds (20 qns each) + 1 written round. A "DRS" pounce system. Prelims cut-off: 4.5, prelims highest: 15.5 Results 1st: Team F - Ranajeet Soman, Samrat Sengupta, J Ramanand (125) 2nd: Team A - Ayush Agrawal, Samridh Kapur, and Aditya Pawar (55) 3rd: Team B - Abhishek Upadhya, Arnold D'Souza (briefly substituted by Avaneendra), and Maitreyi Gupta (50) 4th: Team D - Ajachi, Suraj, Abhinav (45) 5th: Team C - Lakshmy, Roshith, Venkat (drafted in as a 3rd)(30) 6th: Team E - Abhinav, Saikat, and Kshitij (20) Venue sponsored by Extentia (many thanks especially to Vcat for organising the place!) Report The last time Harish conducted a quiz was six years ago , a time when there was no such thing as an infinite pounce (except in the minds of some lewd quizzers) and Amit Varma (remember him?) was still a quizz...

When : 4th August, 2013 Where : Extentia, Pune By: Curated by Aditya Gadre, based on a quiz by Suraj Menon. Valiantly conducted (in the face of relentless sledging) by Avaneendra Bhargav. Format: 35 question written quiz for 2 member teams. (About 20-odd teams took the quiz.) Results: Winners: Ranajeet Soman and Ramanand (25 points) 2nd: Venkat S and Arnold D'Souza (20) 3rd: Samrat Sengupta and Maitreyi Gupta (19.5) Report:  An excellent set of questions on sports and entertainment (side aside: why is there a spate of Sports+Entertainment quizzes in recent times, "SpEnt" as it is referred to. Has the potential of just a Sports or an Ent quizzes been spent?). Most questions were very workable, even the ones masquerading as hip-hop questions. Got something to say yourself? Use the comments box.

This Sunday - the 4th of August, 2013 - we have quite a show lined up.  Act 1:  The Silly Olympics* Avaneendra Bhargav will be running a quiz Suraj Menon recently conducted at some village in Jharkhand. This is a Sports-Entertainment aka SpEnt Quiz. Just like all other Suraj Menon quizzes, it is nice, fun  and interesting quiz.  Time: 1:30 pm Flavour:  Sports and Entertainment Teams: Teams of two. Format: This is a written quiz (~35 questions)- so please bring a writing instrument. * Yet another Monty Python reference. Nothing silly about this quiz :) Act 2:   कह के बताइयेगा ! Pune Quizzing legend BV Harish Kumar will be making a much awaited return to conducting quizzes at the BCQC after a gap five years or so. Given his past quizzes, I can assure you that this one will also be brilliant.  Time: 3 pm Flavour: General  Teams: Teams of three. Format: Written elims followed by finals for the top 6 teams (No draft pick...

Oops! We seem to have forgotten to post the results for Mahaquizzer this year. Pune results were as follows:  Open Category winner:  Kunal Sawardekar - 62 pts 2nd: J Ramanand - 57 pts College winner: Aditya Akhauri - 26 pts Ladies winner: Sravya Darbhamulla The official results (the top 100) has been published by the KQA here Four Pune quizzers made the top 100 (ranks in brackets) - Kunal (23), Ramanand (27), Aditya Gadre (51), Roshith Mohan (87) In addition to this, Suraj Menon (19) and Aniket Khasgiwale (78) also made the top 100.

Quiz set by Yash Tamaskar Conducted by Aditya Gadre Format : Written quiz with 35 questions. 10 points per question (1 had 12.5 points) Results : 1st : Vibhendu Tewari and Abhinav Dasgupta - 287.5 pts 2nd : Navin Sharma and Ranajeet Soman - 150 pts This was the first written quiz I have seen where teams asked for supplements to their answer sheets. There were multiple variables in almost every question which made writing down answers really tedious. The questions were decent overall with a couple of peters. Some questions could definitely have been better framed. Gadre tried his best to help the teams out and gave hints where a question seemed a bit vague. Quite a few teams were between the 100-140 mark. Navin and I got those extra 10-15 points which saw us go clear. That being said, with Vibhendu in the house, everyone was always playing for second place which is illustrated by the huge gap between 1st and 2nd place. The quiz was mostly full of mainstream fundae which is ...

The Spanish Inquisition! Set and Conducted by Aditya Gadre Format: 30 question elims followed by 60 question finals - 48 IR (10 pounces on +10/-5) + 1 written rounds of 6 questions + 1 written round of 6 questions on differential scoring Results: 1st: Team 3 - Kunal Sawardekar, Ranajeet Soman and Venkat Srinivasan : 187 pts 2nd: Team 2 - Aniket Khasgiwale, Samrat Sengupta and Abhishek Upadhyay (sub for Salil Bijur) : 169 pts 3rd: Team 1 - Vibhendu Tewari, Abhinav Dasgupta and Ajay Ragde: 160 pts 4th: Team 5 - Shubhankar Gokhale, Avaneendra Bhargav, Gokul Panigrahi: 159 pts 5th: Team 4 - Vibhav Bhave, Rohan Danait and Navin Sharma :103 pts 6th: Team 6 - Debanjan Bose, Aniketh Rallabhandi, Aditi Prabhudesai: 96 pts Kunal and Ranajeet topped the prelims with 21/30. The cut off for the top 6 was 13/30. The cut off for the top 9 for the draft pick spots was 10/30 All teams were extremely even at the end of the first round (24 questions) with barely 15 points separating the t...

We will be having two quizzes (both with exclamation marks in their name!) this Sunday - the 16th of June, 2013 Quiz 1: Bulla-wood! We will start with a quiz set by Yasho Tamaskar on Bollywood. Don't let the poster fool you, Yasho normally covers all genres and eras of Bollywood - so expect everything from Aaaaashiqui to Zubeida Time: 1 pm Place: Room 102, Academic Complex, College of Engineering, Pune Flavour:  Bollywood Teams: Teams of two. Format: This is a written quiz (~35 questions)- so please bring a writing instrument. Quiz 2: The Spanish Inquisition! Oour second quiz of the day (which was totally not expected by anybody) will be a General Open quiz set by Aditya Gadre. Don't let the poster fool you, there will be no questions on the rack, comfy chairs or nice red uniforms in the quiz. Time: 2:30 pm Place: Room 102, Academic Complex, College of Engineering, Pune Flavour:  General Teams: Teams of two, 9 teams in the final Forma...

Following are the scores for WQC 2013, Pune. Name Score Kunal Sawardekar 87 Ramanand J 73 Nandan Gokhale 64 Ranajeet Soman 57 Debanjan Bose 56 C.V.R. Shastry 43 Prasanth Srinivasan 38 Debajyoti Adhikari 28 Naushi Samad 24 100 years of Indian Cinema Quiz, Pune Since we had only 4 participants we changed the format to IR with infinite pounce and no negatives for the pounce. Debanjan Bose - 19 Ranajit Soman - 19 Samridh Kapur - 16 Rohan Jain -13