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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 .