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Date: 16-09-2017 Quiz: Credenz BizTech Quiz Venue: Pune Institute of Computer Technology, Pune Organized by/Fest: Credenz 2017 QM(s): Ritwik Manatkar Results: 1. Arnabh Sengupta and Anirudh Anilkumar (AFMC) 2. Veushabh Gudade and Karan Agarwal (COEP) 3. Sameer and Yash (PICT) The Quiz started off with just a delay of around 20 minutes with a full house auditorium of about 30-35 teams. It is notable that there was no hassle in the registrations and other pre-quiz rituals and a fair share of the crowd was from the host college. The elims was a nice set of 20 questions with a few two-part questions and star marked ones that touched all the corners of all the Biz-Tech dome. All the answers were familiar to the layman, thus creating multiple guesses and helping the non-quizzing junta to think upon the context. Very appreciable. Advertisements, simple questions, one-liners, company trivia, etc all were covered and the cut-off was around 7. Top six tea...

Date: 7-09-2017 Quiz: Q: Tech Biz Quiz Venue: ILS Law College, Pune Organized by/Fest: Q, the Quiz Fest of ILS Law College QM: Mohit Talwar and Indranil Ghawade Results: 1. Kavin Aadhithiyan (IITB) and Snehasis  Panda (DJSCOE) 2. Arnabh Sengupta and Hritvik Jha (AFMC) Other Finalists: Jalaj Maheshwari and Vikas (GNLU) Divij G and Vrushabh G (COEP) Omkar B (SOAS) and Ankit Choudhary (PICT) Dikshant Rathod and Partner (MITSOM) First up, was the Biztech quiz, which was named the Tech Biz Quiz for some reason (put me off massively, the name) and we walked into the auditorium to be greeted by a smattering of about 20 teams of two. There were a couple of outstation teams including GNLU and yours truly, while the usual suspects such as AFMC, PICT, COEP etc made up the rest of the crowd. The prelims could be defined in a single line: "Gimme X and Y" with a fair emphasis on TCQ-ish stuff as well a fair number of peters. Prelims scores ...