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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