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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