Quiz: Let There Be Rock, the BCQC Rock Music
Date & Time: 8 August 2021, 10 am
Venue: Held over Zoom
Format: Written Quiz | 40 Qs worth 50 points
QMs: Aditya Gadre & Navin Rajaram
In 1977, AC/DC proclaimed ‘Let There Be Rock’. Cut to 44 years later in
pandemic times, our QMs thought it was best to follow the sermon and rock it
out at 10 in the morning on a Sunday. Yes, please! Hundred-and-twenty
individuals also seemed to be in agreement, as we saw incredible participation
of 60 teams. Thank you, everyone!
A written quiz ensures all teams get to have a crack at every question, with no
one going home (err, yeah) feeling left out and suffering the wrath of a
prelims. And, what better than hearing good music all the way through! And,
it’s here where the best bit about the quiz was - the focus was on music
listening. The quiz had a high number of audio and videos, as any good music
quiz should be. Given this stress on multimedia, the quiz was also conducted
glitch-free and at a leisurely Sunday pace, despite there being Dada’s General Quiz to follow.
Full points also for the research put into the quiz, covering a wide gamut of
topics, including genres, film soundtracks, album covers, song origins and band
name etyms, music videos, cover versions, guitar techniques, samples and
inspirations and a lot more.
The quiz
was dotted with a bunch of quirky tidbits – ranging from naming a 60s band from
Liverpool (not the Beatles! Hint: Liverpool FC) to identifying Grace Slick from
her paintings (question showed images from Alice in Wonderland as drawn by the
Jefferson Airplane vocalist) to naming Wish You Were Here based on a clue that
the LP sleeve was packed to trap the smell of burning human flesh! However, the
unanimous decision on the best question of the quiz was probably Anu Malik sir
taking ‘inspiration’ from KISS’ I Was Made For Loving You Baby ft. Sallu bhai.
The bulk of the questions seemed to border around classic and hard rock from
the 60s and 70s (perhaps QM bias?). Higher representation from the so-called
modern eras and other genres of rock music could have possibly made it a more
well-rounded quiz. Music from this century also only made few isolated
appearances. To talk about a pet peeve, the count of three questions on Indian
rock, a goldmine that it is, could perhaps have been slightly more.
Incidentally, two of those were from the post-2000s era!
That
said, kudos to the QMs for keeping the quiz accessible and interesting with a
heady mix of core funda and workoutables. The quiz mostly concentrated on all
the big names and famous songs – from Led Zep to Alanis Morissette to Hendrix
to Elvis to RHCP to GnR to Van Halen’s Eruption to Who’s Tommy to Zero’s PSP12
to Heart’s Barracuda, to name a few.
A special mention to #SoccerKils (Udupa & Santosh). Fact that they won the
quiz isn’t why we’re writing about them, but the margin by which they pulled it
off is astounding. They completely maxed the quiz with a phenomenal score of
49/50. One question had to be cancelled due to a Zoomcommentboxgate. The next
best score was 43 and then a bunch of teams clubbed in the 38-37 range.
To reiterate, great music was always at the forefront of this quiz. As a
parting gift, our generous QMs actually created a Spotify playlist featuring
every song that found its mention in the quiz, resulting in 4 hours of
rockgasm. Give it a listen! Playlist follows the report.
I heard it through the grapevine that the QMs are planning further editions of
this quiz and if the first one is anything to go by, it’s most noble a
decision.
P.S: The lack of any funda on The Beatles in a rock music quiz was taken up by
the diarist and amicably settled in an out-of-court settlement with the
quiz-setters. Pfft.
Scores:
49 #SoccerKills Thejaswi Udupa Santosh J.S.
43 Pebble Fans Nikhil Sonde Sumant Srivathsan
38 Definitely Maybe Arijit Sen Indranath Mukherjee
Corrosion of Conformity Mihir Jayaraman Nitish Khadiya
37 Fleetwood Macbeth Gopal Kidao Srivats Ram
Bridge over Roger Waters Sethu Madhavan Berty Ashley
Sultans of Fling Samyak Chaturvedi Amrit Visa
35 RajaRam Jam/EyeHateGadre Varun Rajiv Ashwin Kumar
34 Masters Hammer Aswath Venkataraman Rahul Raguram
In the Annals of History Bodhisattva Basu Annway Ghosh
33 Do It Duet Akash Gupta Arun TP
Eleanor Rigby's Revolver Kunal Roy Siddhanth Rao
Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Quizbois Anisha Karnail Nandagopal
31 Van Halen T-Shirt Jamie David Lee Roth Anderson Angus Eddie Van Halen Creighton
North Campus Pop Art Experimental Teamup Arnuv Joshi Rupak Jain
30 Vowel movement Sohan Adi
Chowder Mookie Neel Chaudhari Dhruv Mookerji
Fossils Fan Club Arindam Dutta Debanjan Bose
Mostly Ordinary Troy Cumpsty
29 Inglorious quizzards Samiran Mondal Joy Bannerjee
Abhishek Abhishek Kapoor
Potentially Hazardous Objects Paul Hillman
28 The Ozzy Akhtar project Suraj Menon
27 Rock N'Rolla Nikhil Soneja Sandeepan Chaudhuri
Mohiner Ghoraguli Abhiroop Dey Arijit Malakar
26 Greta On Fleek Sumo Vikram Rajan
Polk Salad Annie Aniruddha Sen Gupta Srijit Kumar
25 Cohen Cobain Kalidas Souhardya Pramanik Agnidev Bandyopadhyay
GoVansa Govind Grewal Vansa David
Wu Han Clan Rushabh Menon Shashwat Salgaocar
Coffee and Ebony Sahil Gupta Pranav Pawar
23 Fortunate Sons Adit Prahlad
Report by: Debanjan Bose
