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COVID Fundraiser Series | Report on the Football Quiz

Quiz : General Quiz on Football  Date & Time : 6 June 2021 at 1:30 pm Venue: Zoom QM: Ranajeet Soman Scores : Jt 1st: Muddied Oafs (Rajiv Rai, Vinoo Sanjay, Brajendu Bhaskar) - 150 pts Jt 1st: In the End, Cricket is the Winner (Prithwish Dutta, Deepanjan Deb, Sachin Deshpande) - 150 pts Jt 1st: We believe in the cardboard (Aswath Venkataraman, Atulya Bharadwaj, Sandeep Narayan)  - 150 pts 4th: De Gea Dard (Abid Abdullah, Kunal, Shashwat Salgaoncar) - 140 pts 5th: Zulfiqar e Ingit (Anannya Deb, Venkatraghavan S, Venky Srinivasan) - 120 pts 6th: The Ball is Round - (Piyush Kedia, Kaniska Ghosh, Partha Ghatak) - 90 pts 6th: Remembrance of Things Fast (Srinath Bhashyam, Manu Sudhakar, Navin Rajaram) - 85 pts 8th: Boka Juniors (Jayashree Mohanka, Arnold D'Souza, Kinshuk Biswas) - 80 pts Report:  Ranajeet Soman is not only one of the best football quizzers in the country, but also one of the most rounded gen quizzers. Over the years, we have come to expect questions from hi...

COVID Fundraiser Series | Report on the General Quiz

Quiz : Magnum Dopus a.k.a. One Last Quiz (i.e., the General Quiz) Date & Time : 19 July 2021 at 1:30 pm Venue : A series of tubes (a.k.a the QM's and participants various homes, connected via Zoom) QM : Suraj Menon Scores: Winners : WIMWI Manran (Rajiv Rai, Srinath Bashyam and Aniket Khasgiwale) - 210 pts Runners Up : Can We Answer Now? (Navin Rajaram, Santosh Swaminathan, Preetham Upadhya) - 195 pts 3rd: Kunal's Nexus (Venkatesh Srinivasan, Ranajeet Soman, Kunal Sawardekar) - 185 pts 4th: Prisoni (Souvik Guha, Prithwish Datta, Nikhil Sonde) - 170 pts 5th: UNESCOVID (Atulaa, Bhargava, Varun) - 165 pts 6th: Matunga Manram - (Balakrishnan S, Rushi Anandan, Vinoo Sanjay) - 150 pts 6th: Vast Deferens (Abhinav, Jayant, Shaswat) - 150 pts 8th: Passing Faiz (Shashank, Abhijit) - 100 pts Report: Every so often, India's quizzing scene is riven by talk of the last ever quiz by Suraj Menon. The joy at attending another one of these excellently put-together quizzes soon fades into ...

COVID Fundraiser Series | Report on the India Quiz

Quiz: India Quiz  Day, Date, Time: Saturday, 17th July 2021, 1.30pm Venue: The quiz was conducted over Zoom Format: Elims (30 questions) + Finals (42 Questions with 30 IR + 4 written theme rounds of 3 questions each) QMs: Debanjan Bose & Sachin Deshpande   Scores: 1. Jayashree, Partha, Piyush -210 2. Shouvik, Prithwish, Deepanjan -165 3 (Joint) Udupa, Ramkey, Shashank and Alagar, Bhargava, Priyambad -143 5. Preetham, Manu, Navin -140 6. Naman, Ashwini, Aabhas -130 7. Abhinav, Jayant, Shaswat -120 8. Salil, Samrat, Anil -115 9. Prateek, Kunal, Siddanth -80 A vibrant quiz, hosted by a couple of great guys who must be among the most likeable quizzers and quizmasters in the country. Quiz showcased our Incredible India with its multiple facets. Entire quiz was efficiently conducted with no glitches, owing to a perfect jugalbandi of both the QMs. Accessible elims, even for non-regular quizzers, which fitted well with the theme of the Fundraiser quizzes, plus QMs being g...