tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301203.post1593733179121980796..comments2024-03-14T13:49:44.863+05:30Comments on Interrobang: The BCQC September Open Quiz - ReportJ Ramanandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700969855424872769noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301203.post-18960166941299185452012-09-08T10:33:07.330+05:302012-09-08T10:33:07.330+05:30I'm with JR on both the Soviet-heaviness and t...I'm with JR on both the Soviet-heaviness and the zeitgeist-y North East round, but I was generally OK with the paraphrasing of questions, possibly because I was starting to prioritize food over quizzing by then.<br /><br />We tend to ignore lumpy quizzes when they pertain to India, the US or pop culture, but the unusual subjects tend to jump out at us. I would much rather sacrifice diversity than good questions in the name of coverage.<br /><br />On the NE, I'd wager that there would have been a lot more "who the hell is this guy" responses if it had been a more hardcore round. As it were, I'm struggling to recall even one of those instances in this quiz. But YMMV.<br /><br />My only crib really would be that audiobooks should be differentiated explicitly. "Performed by" printed on what seems to be CD packaging doesn't exactly lend itself to literature.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04970190027948717618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301203.post-21861208140750660632012-09-03T20:47:30.956+05:302012-09-03T20:47:30.956+05:30Agreed with most comments, so just a couple of poi...Agreed with most comments, so just a couple of points in criticism:<br /><br />1. I found the topic distribution to be a little lumpy - e.g. lots of questions on the Soviets, for instance. Not sure if I noticed them more, but it did feel like that.<br /><br />2. The QM chose to paraphrase many of his questions, rendering superfluous many of his nicely framed (and autobiographical) questions (that's what it looked at, though). I'd have liked to have stuck to the slides, doing justice to the original framing.<br /><br />3. The N-E round was a bit of a disappointment to me - many of the answers were related to entertainment figures that were probably too well-known. Would have liked a more probing explanation. But that could have been perceived as too 'high-brow' again.<br /><br />4. I liked some of the 'seemingly obvious turning out to be something else' qns.<br /><br />Overall, I've seen Anannya put up more better sets, so slightly underwhelmed by this. But enjoyable.<br /><br />(BTW, we should be listed below V-A-A's team, as we got a lower elims score, which is how we broke ties for the prizes)J Ramanandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03700969855424872769noreply@blogger.com