Thursday, December 26, 2013

BCQC InFest Day 1 schedule + InFestYouUs topics

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.

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Anniversary Mahaquizzer 2013 - Pune Results

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




Friday, December 20, 2013

BC Infest 2013/14 a.k.a. BCQC.orgy

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 quiz is a surprise even to the Quizmasters.

12:30pm to 1:30 pm: We break for lunch

1:30 pm: Our friends from Bombay - Abhinav Dasgupta and Shubhankar Gokhale conduct the "Dead Boring Quiz".

2:30 pm: Aditya Gadre will then conduct "bcqc.orgy/history" - a mostly general quiz in an experimental format

3:30 pm : We then have another set of "Auto-biographical" Quizzes, set by some of the BCQC's pseudo-expats (Vcat) and some friends from outta town (Anannya Deb) based on their own / their alter ego's experiences, travels etc.

4:30 pm: The Grand Finale - J. Ramanand , is doing "an Ent quiz with some differences, multiplied by divisiveness"

Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Mahaquizzer & AsiaSweep 2014

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.