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InFest-You-Us is a mastermind style, specialty themes solo quiz. This year, Infest-you-us will happen next year - on the 3rd of January 2015 , 1:30pm onwards at the Boat Club Lawns in the College of Engineering Pune The format is as follows: Each person chooses a topic of their interest. The taker would be asked 10 questions. The taker will be awarded 1 point for getting a question right. If missed, the question would go to the "Mob" i.e. everyone else present. The Mob is not allowed to discuss among themselves, and must decide who among them would go for the answer if the answer given by the participant is wrong. If the chosen one is right, the taker loses 1/2 a point. If not, the confident chosen one will get beaten up by the rest of the Mob. So if you are interested, this is the course of action: - Fill up this form (  http://bit.ly/1y9FfB7  )and tell us your name and your topics of choice.Please ensure that all fields are filled in - if we can't contact you, yo...

Set and Conducted by Rohan Danait Attended by ~100 teams Format: Written elims of 30 questions. Finals comprising 42 questions on Infinite Rebounds and a 6 question written round on differential scoring Results: 1st: Anannya Deb & Anirudha sen Gupta: 365 pts 2nd: Aniket Khasgiwale & Aditya Gadre: 300 pts 3rd: Shrirang Raddi & Venkat Srinivasan: 250 pts 4th: Meghashyam Shirodkar & Amit Garde: 215 pts 5th: Debanjan Bose & Vikram Keskar: 185 pts 6th: Shubhankar Gokhale & Arnold D'Souza: 170 pts An excellent, enjoyable quiz put up by Rohan. The quiz started with an interesting 30 question written elims  - a throwback to tradition with printed sheets instead of a ppt. There was a surprisingly large range of elim scores with the highest score being 27/30 and the last qualifiers making 18/30 The finals had 2 rounds of 21 questions each on Infinite bounce - using the One-Finite pounce system (recently made popular in Pune circles by BDFL Ramanan...

The quiz was set and conducted by Arnold D'Souza. It was originally supposed to be IR with all teams in finals but since we had a good turnout it was conducted as a written quiz. Results 1st - Aniket Khasgiwale and BV Harish Kumar  - 37.5 pts 2nd - Ranajeet Soman and Samrat Sengupta - 23 pts Report : The quiz had 46 questions plus two other rounds. The first round was a doppelgangers round where celebrities from non-cricketing fields were shown and we had to guess the cricketer they resembled. It was a nice non-serious start to the quiz (the Nathan Bracken - Amelie Mauresmo part especially). There were two sets of 22 and 24 questions respectively with a healthy share of tough questions. The questions were well framed, however, some of the answers weren't 'workoutable' at all. There were a few record/statistics based questions which seem unavoidable in a cricket quiz. Even though the quiz was tough, the questions were not arbit (barring a couple). There was a h...

The quiz was set and conducted by Vibhav Bhave who will be fleeing  leaving the country soon. The quiz had a 25 question elims and finals with two 15 question IRs and 2 written rounds including an intensely confusing "auction round".  The finals had a 6 + 3 draft system. Following are the results : 1st : Team 2 :- Rohan Danait, Ranajeet Soman + Sampooran Singh (not Gulzar) - 179 points 2nd : Team 1:- Aniketh Rallabandhi, Daipayan Roy + Dhananjay Jagtap - 162 points 3rd : Team 5 :- Omkar Dhakhephalkar, Pranav Pawar + Saikat Sarkar - 146 points Other finalists : Team 3 :- Alok Kulkarni, Rohit Sahasrabuddhe + Kshitij Jyoti Team 6 :- Kinshuk, Arundhati Kulkarni + Aman Shaikh Team 4 :- Anurag Gangras, Anway Karmarkar + Divij Ghose Report : We had a very good turnout of 22 teams considering the recent times. The elims were of a good quality for a college quiz with a lot of teams making it into double digits. There were no arbit questions and a couple of very good o...

The BCQC is organising two open quizzes in July. Details: Date: 27 July 2014 (Sunday) Venue: Academic Complex., COEP, Pune (next to the BC). Given the venue, we have to declare a dress code: no shorts, as COEP has become finicky about not allowing people wearing shorts in the Complex. Quiz 1: College Quiz Set & hosted by: Vibhav Bhave When: 10:30 am to 1:00 pm  Theme: General Format: written prelims, followed by finals Registration: free, open to college students (cross-college teams allowed) Teams: teams of two members each Certificates for all the finalists Quiz 2: The July Open Set & hosted by: Arnold D'Souza When: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm  Theme: Cricket Format: written prelims, followed by finals Registration: free, open to all Teams: teams of two members each  Certificates for college finalists, top college team Join the FB event page here .

When: 15 June 2014 at COEP Quiz 1: Flags of the World Set and Conducted by Kunal S Format: 25 questions; random pairing of teams for some participants Results Joint 1st: Saikat Sarkar+Kshitij Jyoti & Samrat Sengupta+Suyash Thite (16.5) Joint 2nd: Aniket Dass+Rujul Godse, Anmol Dhawan+Ashwin Mahesh, Omkar Dhakephalkar+Ranajeet Soman (16) Report: Nice set of questions with some very interesting facts, ending with an other-worldly twist. Questions here . Quiz 2: "Attaa tu MELAS" Set and Conducted by Ranajeet Soman Flavour: Music, Entertainment, Language, Arts, Sports Format: 25 qns written prelims, 2 IR + 1 written round in the final on '(not naughty) nautical phrases (which had nothing to do with Notting Hill)', draft picks 1st: E: Samrat Sengupta, Tadatmya Vaishnav, Omkar Yarguddi (85) 2nd: D: Omkar Dhakephalkar, Pranav Pawar, Anmol Dhawan (70) 3rd: F: Rohan Danait, Vibhav Bhave, Alok Kulkarni (60) Other finalists: (A) Kunal S+Debanjan Bose+Su...

The BCQC is organising two open quizzes in June. Details: Date: 15 June 2014 (Sunday) Venue: Seminar Hall , Academic Complex., COEP, Pune (next to the BC). For the first ever time in BCQC history, we have to declare a dress code(!): full-length trousers for guys, as COEP has become finicky about not allowing people wearing shorts in the Complex. Quiz 1: "Flags of the World" Set & hosted by: Kunal Sawardekar When: 2:15 pm to 3:15 pm  Theme: um, flags of the world Format: written, for all teams Registration: free, open to all Teams: teams of two members each, but we're going to experiment this time by randomly pairing together all participants (gives you a chance to team up with someone new) Certificates for the top three college participants Quiz 2: "The June Open" Set & hosted by: Ranajeet Soman When: 3:30 pm to 5:45 pm  Theme: Music, Entertainment, Literature, Arts, Sports (i.e. a Lt. General Quiz) Format: written prelims, followed by final fo...

What: World Quizzing Championships , a written solo competition conducted by the IQA and held simultaneously around the world. When: 7 June, 2012 (Saturday), 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm Where in Pune: AFMC, Wanowrie (exact venue to be updated) Proctor: Dr. Anurakshat Gupta, anurakshat@rediffmail.com Registration: free, Rs. 100/- charge; suggest you use this FB event page to tell us if you are attending, so that the organisers know how many answer sheets to get. This will be preceded by an informal session: 2 pm till 3:30 pm, to be conducted by Krishnamurthi Josyula and Debanjan Bose. ( contact: . Prizes for the top 2 and best college quizzer. Venue for both events: New Lecture Hall, AFMC, Pune

" Abhimanyu " is the annual solo contest for COEP's quizzers. This began with a preliminary round held last year, from which 6 quizzers qualified. The final was delayed for several months and was finally held in May 2014. The finalists took part in a common written general round, which was followed by a Mastermind-style set of specialities (picked in advance). The General round was set by Ramanand, while the 6 specialities were set by the previous Abhimanyu winner, Gautam Akiwate. Results: Winner: Payas Awadhutkar (4 + 10), topic: Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2nd: Vibhav Bhave (7+4.5), topic: Downton Abbey 3rd: Rujul Godse (4.5+6), topic: Current Affairs 4th: Rohan Danait (6+2), topic: Quentin Tarantino 5th: Chinmay Tadwalkar, topic: Lok Sabha elections 6th: Omkar Yarguddi, topic: Scrubs Season II Payas had a sensationally perfect 2nd round to clinch the title. List of winners so far 2001 - Rahul Srinivas - Asterix Comics 2002 - Sumeet Kulkarni - Formula-One 2003 - ...

City results from the KQA Mindsweep written quiz (scores reported as follows: best 8 sections, all 10 sections): 1. Rahul Kottalgi (76, 90) 2. Aditya Gadre (53, 59) 3. Suraj Menon (52, 58) 4. Samrat Sengupta (38, 42) 5. Gaurav Sabnis (32, 37) 13 people attempted the quiz in Pune.

Set and Conducted by Gaurav Sabnis Flavour: General Format: Written elims of 35 questions + Finals of 48 questions Results: 1st: Suraj Menon, Aditya Gadre and Divij Ghose 2nd: Samrat Sengupta, Navin Sharma and Srisha Haridas 3rd: Venkat S, Arnold D'Souza, Vibhav Bhave Other finalists: Kunal Sawardekar, Gokul, Supreeth Ravish ;  J Ramanand, Samridh Kapur, Rohan Danait;  Avinash Mudaliar, Rahul Suhas Kottalgi, Utsab Saha The quiz started with an interesting "old fashioned" pen and paper elims with a wide range of scores - the top scorers had 25/ 35 while the 9th team had 12/ 25 The finals had 48 questions - 42 general questions with 6 questions on a Dissertations  The finals were light and interested, peppered of course with some stuff which none of us had a clue about, but overall , a very good quiz by Gaurav  who made it look like he's almost not been out of mainstream Indian quizzing for 8 years.  Just a few peters, very interesting fundaes, very...

Set by Aniket Khasgiwale, Yash Marathe and Aditya Gadre Format:  30 question elim to determine the 8 quarter finalists. Then a 60 question quarter final to determine the top 4 i.e. the semi finalists. A 40 question Semi final to narrow down to the top 2 in the finals. A 28 question Finals played over two legs (home and away) to determine the winner. Report:  The quiz started with a 30 qn elims set - the elim seemed much simpler this year and we had a lot of people crossing double digits. Defending Champion Ramkey topped the elims with a phenomenal 21 pts. Ramanand cleared the elims but had to leave so he gave up his spot. The Cut off was 13.5 - with Venkatraghavan (aka Venky) beating Kaushik Koley in a tiebreaker to enter the Quarter finals. The Quarter Finals: The Quarter finalists were : Shrirang Raddi, Ramkey, Suraj Menon,  Shubhankar Gokhale,  Suvajit Chakraborty, Prithwish Datta,  Venky and Anannya Deb  The Quarters were very even till the...

T his is the BCQC's annual solo, open quiz to crown the Best Sports Quizzer. This is the sixth edition. ( Reports for  2009 ,  2010 ,  2011 ,  2012  and 2013 editions).  Format:       First, a 30 question elim determines 8 qualifiers (i.e. 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. The top two then go to the final. The  scoring is reset to zero after every round. 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 you get 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 ). So that's a total of 154 questions + tie breakers. Prizes:  Cash prizes for the top 8 finishers (i.e. everyone who qualifies from th...

Quiz 1:  Written General Quiz Set and Conducted by Aditya Gadre 1st: Kunal Sawardekar and Aniket Khasgiwale - 29.5 /40 2nd: Arnold D'Souza and Suraj Prabhu - 20/40 Quiz 2: The Malik Pritam Quiz Flavour: MELA Set by: Aniket Khasgiwale, Govind Grewal, Abhinav Dasgupta, Nikhil Sonde and Anannya Deb Conducted by: Aniket Khasgiwale Results: 1st: Suraj Menon, Dvaipayan and Anurag: 180 pts 2nd: Avaneendra, Shivam and Alok: 125 pts 3rd: Kunal Sawardekar, Ajay Ragde and Sanidhi Ragde: 115 pts 4th: Suraj Prabhu, Omkar D and Omkar P: 110 pts 5th: Samridh Kapur and Arnold D'Souza: 100 pts 6th: Venkat S, Maitreyi Gupta and Kapeesh Saraf: 35 pts Since there were only 17 people who showed up, we decided to randomise teams and have everyone in the final. The intended elims were run as 3 written rounds Four teams were within 5 pts of each other at the half-way mark, following which Suraj Menon and team pulled away to win quite comfortably. 4 teams were in contention fo...

The 2014 Norwegian Open solo written quiz will be held on Apr 5 2014 at 3pm. The venue will be Boat Club as usual. Please register at this link (registration mandatory). To be proctored by Avaneendra Bhargav. Prizes: 1st Prize - LM Vouchers worth 300 2nd Prize - LM Vouchers worth 200

Quiztronomy - The Annual Astronomy flavoured quiz presented by the COEP Astronomy club. When - March 30, 2014 (Sunday) Where - College of Engineering Pune. Teams of 2 *OPEN TO ALL* (The poster says students only, but this is a correction) Registration charges - INR 50 per team For registrations contact: Sarang - +91 90284 72187 More details here.

Quiz 1: Written History Quiz  Set by Vikram Joshi Proctored by Aditya Gadre Format: 100 questions to be answered in 60 minutes A total of 30 people took the quiz in Pune. Here are the results (Only Top 5 scores). Full results from all centres will be published soon 1st: Kunal Sawardekar : 55 pts 2nd: Suraj Menon 43.5 pts 3rd: Anannya Deb: 40.5 pts 4th: Anurakshat Gupta: 38.5 5th: Aniket Khasgiwale: 24.5 Quiz 2: Extra! Extra! - The Typical Chennai Quiz  Set and Conducted by Kunal Sawardekar Format: 22 question written quiz Flavour: Current events and news Results: 1st: Anannya Deb and Aniket Khasgiwale : 13 pts 2nd: J Ramanand and BV Harish Kumar: 12 pts Quiz 3: Questionable Intelligence Set and Conducted by J Ramanand Flavour: General Format: Written prelims. 8 teams in the final. A total of 39 questions in the final across 4 rounds and one Visual connect Results: 1st: Kunal Sawardekar and Anannya Deb: 185 pts 2nd: Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgi...

First, it was just one quiz. Then it became two. Now it's three! (we decided to get this announcement out before it became a pile-up on the quizzing highway). Administrivia Date 16 Mar, 2014 (Sunday) Venue Room 101, Academic Complex, COEP (this is next to the Boat Club) (see on Google Map ) Eligibility Open to all, no registration fees Prizes sponsored by Landmark, Pune Contact Avaneendra (90110 40388); Ramanand (9764258560) The Quizzes 1 : 11:00 am to 12:30 pm - "100 years, 100 questions" - Vikram Joshi - written, solo 2 : 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm - "TCQ" - Kunal Sawardekar - written, teams of 2 3 : 3:15 pm to 6:30 pm - "Questionable Intelligence" - J. Ramanand - written prelims+8 team finals, teams of 2 (we will make every attempt to stick to the timings) 100 questions on the 100 years since World War I Set by Vikram Joshi, Proctored by Aditya Gadre. Format: 1 hour written quiz; solo quiz Flavour: General Registration: required ( fil...

Many thanks to Extentia (venue partner) and Landmark (prizes sponsor). "The World is Awesome" Flavour: Geography Set & Conducted by Kunal Sawardekar Format: 30 questions written quiz Results 1st: Shrirang Raddi & Arnold D'Souza (24) 2nd: Aditya Gadre & Samrat Sengupta (21.5) Report A nice quiz on what is still a niche topic for many. A conscious attempt was made by the QM to make the questions accessible through clues and references (some of which were lost on some of us!) 'Garbology' - Feb Open Quiz Flavour: Military aviation, Maratha history, scandals old and new, turnarounds in sports and politics, stuff you can buy at kirana shops Set & Conducted by Shrirang Raddi Format: 17 qn prelims, 41 qn finals Results 1st: Harish Kumar, J. Ramanand (team 6 - 23) 2nd: Raghu, Mayank, Venkat (team 5 - 18) 3rd: Kunal S, Aditya Gadre (team 3 -16) Other finalists: Samrat S + Ajay R (team 1 - 13), Avaneendra+Deepak Mohoni+ (team 2 - 5), A...

2013 Shyam Bhatt Memorial Quiz, AFMC, Pune 14th Feb, 2014 Set and Conducted by Chandrakant Nair Flavour: General Format: Written elims of 37 questions. Finals (3 written rounds, 2*20 questions on Bounce+Pounce) Results: 1st - Vikram Joshi and Meghashyam Shirodkar - 340 points 2nd - Aditya Gadre and Shubhankar Gokhale - 335 points 3rd - Hrishi Varma and Justin Thomas - 325 points The other finalists (in no particular order) Gopal Kidao and Sachin Deshpande Navin Rajaram and Venkatesh Srinivasan Ramanand JN and Shrirang Raddi Balakrishnan Satyam and Rahul Kottalgi Debanjan Bose and Suraj Prabhu Aniketh Rallabhandi and Vibhav Bhave Aryapriya Ganguly and Avinash Mudaliar Wg Cdr Anurakshat Gupta and Maj Safal Muhammad Report The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Quiz is, by our estimation, the oldest running quiz in Pune. This edition of the quiz, interestingly, had a mix of several newcomers to the quiz (from many parts of the country) and several old-returners (who took part i...

Apologies for the late report. Day 1 report is here . In contrast to Day 1, Day 2 of the 2013-14 BC InFest had more of the traditional session-like quizzes. By the time the day ended, we had about 25-30 participants. Fortunately, we ran out of time and saved ourselves the ent-al torture of an Ent quiz by this blogger. (Meanwhile, the unasked questions are growing alarmingly monstrous in their little pods, waiting patiently for that one day when they will be unleashed on a...) But to hairy adventures first: the day began with a quiz on facial hair by Oboneendro and Devanjan. It was only on the arrival of Anannya Deb that this hirsute pursuit gained its core audience. We broke for a not-so leisurely lunch to return and find that the real BCQC.orgy was in progress: an exam for some people for something. That began a pattern of oscillation between our regular spot and the New BC Grassy Knoll Annexe. The first post-lunch engagement was time for some morbid curiosity - "Quizz Macab...

On Saturday, 22 February 2014 we conduct two Open Quizzes. Quiz I - The World is Awesome - Written Quiz Time: 2:30 pm Flavour: Geography, World QM: Kunal Sawardekar Teams of 2 Written Quiz - Please bring writing instrument(s) Quiz 2 - Open Quiz by Shrirang Raddi Time: 3:30 pm Flavour: A mishmash of military aviation, Maratha history, scandals old and new, turnarounds in sports and politics, stuff you can buy at kirana shops and many other things besides QM: Shrirang Raddi Teams of 2 Written Elims followed by Stage Finals Venue Extentia Information Technology, Nilanjali Housing Colony, Kalyani Nagar, Pune 

Day 1 of BC Infest began with a Saraswati Vandana and the traditional lighting of the lamp. OK, not really, but some bulbs did turn themselves on. As appropriate for an occasional footballer, Samrat gently kicked off proceedings by introducing the BC Infest, and by reading out questions in our newly introduced Autobiographical quiz segment. These featured some interesting questions by Abhishek Nagaraj, Hirak Parikh, Navin Sharma, and Samrat sir himself. Borderline narcissism apart, this gave a great glimpse into the lives of some of these quizzers. We also had a previously-unscheduled set by VCat in which we learned of the many things visible from the Trans-Siberian railway. This was followed by the QI-style quiz by Aniket: there were no panels, but there was lots of klaxon-ing, lots of bantering, and lots of negatives. The quiz, based on the popular British show QI, had questions with lots of obvious-answers-that-were-wrong, and some obvious-answers-that-were-right-but-left-unanswered...