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 Set by Aditya Gadre, Aniket Khasgiwale and Yash Marathe Format: 30 question elim to determine the 8 quarter finalists. 60 question quarter to determine the top 4 for the semi finals. 40 question semi-final to determine the top 2. A 28 question final to determine the winner. Report The 13th edition of the BC Cup saw a return to the Boat Club steps after a brief online sojourn on account of the pandemic last year.  The elims was an even affair and threw its fair share of surprises as long time BC Cup veteren and perennial favourite Ingit sir didn't qualify, and last years winner Deepanjan Deb (aka DD) just about scraped through with the cut off 12.5 points. Samrat Sengupta lived up to his moniker of Sabse Bada BC and topped the elims with a whopping 19 points.  The Quarter Finals The top 8 in the quarter finals were: Anannya Deb, Gokul, Prithwish Datta, Suraj Menon, Sachin 'Talent' Deshpande, Deepanjan Deb (DD), Samrat Sengupta and Rohit Suresh (Rotti)  The quarter fi...

  Quiz : Test Match Special  Date & Time : 10 July, 2022, Noon Venue : COEP Theme : General (NOT cricket) Format: Written Elims for teams of 2 to get seeds + Final for all participants   QM(s): Suraj Menon Results: Winners – Team 1: Kunal Sawardekar, Aditya Gadre, Brajendu Bhaskar, Arnold D’Souza & Pitambar: 230 pts Second place: Team 6: Vibhendu Tewari, Rajiv Rai, Amit, Snehil & Palak Shah: 180 pts  Third Place: Team 2: Venky Srinivasan, Anannya Deb, Sania Narulkar, Abhinav Dasgupta & Anurag: 170 pts Other Finalists: Team 5: Piyush Kedia, Shubham, Naman Jain, Akshay Parale & Soham – 140 pts Team 4: Samrat Sengupta, J Ramanand, Sandeep Shankar, Pravin & Madhura – 130 pts Team 3: Anmol Dhawan, Sahil Gupta, Charles Matthew, Pranav Joshi, Ghanashyam – 75 pts  Suraj Menon is known by monikers like UNESCO Best QM and BQMI (Best QM in India) – so when he said he wanted to set 90 questions and do a ‘Test Match style’ quiz with an elims and ...

Quiz : In August Company (General Quiz)  Date & Time : 8 August 2021 at 1:30 pm Venue : Zoom QM : Anannya Deb  Scores: 1st: Two Proctors and a Doctor (Dr. Navin Jayakumar, Abhinav Dasgupta, Avinash Mudaliar) - 170 pts 2nd: Peter Panchali Parajito (Debanjan Bose, Sachin Deshpande, Sourjo Sengupta) - 140 pts 3rd: Dream team (Arnabh Sengupta, Anirudh Anilkumar, Shaayak Chatterjee) - 133 pts 4th: Rana Protip (Venky Srinivasan, Kunal Sawardekar, Ranajeet Soman) - 127 pts 5th: East Bengal United (Shouvik Guha, Prithwish Datta, Deepanjan Deb) - 123 pts 6th: Narulkar, Nerulkar, Punekar (Sania Narulkar, Samrat Sengupta, Aditya Gadre) - 120 pts 7th: Remembrance of Things Fast (Navin Rajaram, Manu Sudhakar, Swaminathan Ganesh) - 107 pts 8th: Huey Dewey Louie (Akash Gupta, Arun TP, Zaman Khan) - 103 pts 9th: No Name (Krishnamurthy Ganesh, Rajagopal PS, Ajay Parasuraman) - 83 pts  10th: Maris Troika (Thejasvi Udupa, Santosh Swaminathan, Ramkey V) - 72 pts  Report: Anannya Deb...

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...

Quiz : The Visuals Quiz   Day, Date, Time : Sunday, 10th January 2021, 2pm Venue : The quiz was conducted over Zoom Format : Elims (35 questions) + Finals (40 IR + 6 written) QMs : Aditya Gadre, Omkar Dhakephalkar, Ranajeet Soman, Kunal Sawardekar and Pranav Pawar Scores : 1. Sumant Srivathsan, Yash Tamaskar, Navin Sharma (We Are Googling) - 345 points 2. Rajiv Rai, Vinoo Sanjay, Srinath Bhashyam (WIMWI Manram) - 290 points 3. Aryapriya Ganguly, Rahul Kottalgi, Amrit Pritam Chetia (Aardvarks) - 265 points 4. Jayashree Mohanka, Sania Narulkar, Prithwish Dutta (Is There A Bigger Picture) - 250 points 5. Ritoban, Amlan, Arijit (Khela Hobe Na) - 245 points 6. Varun Rajiv, Bhargava EM, Santosh Swaminathan (Metaquizziks) - 230 points 6. Samanth Subramaniam, Ravi Mundoli, Ashwin Kumar (Aila Jacta Est) - 230 points 8. Chandrakant Nair, Hrishikesh Verma, Jinson (CIDs From Kerala) - 220 points Report : The BCQC, much like Simone de Beauvoir, had to adapt to the Force of Circumstance and...

Set by  Aditya Gadre, Aniket Khasgiwale and Yash Marathe Format : 30 question elim to determine the 8 quarter finalists. 60 question quarter to determine the top 4 for the semi finals. 40 question semi-final to determine the top 2. A 28 question final to determine the winner. Report The 11th edition of the BC Cup saw about as strong a field as last year. The elims turned out to be bit on the tougher side and Anannya Deb topped with 15.5 points. All other qualifiers were bunched together and the cut off was 10.5 with 2.5 stars. Rajiv Rai just missed out qualification on stars.  The Quarter Finals The top 8 in the quarter finals were: Prithwish Datta, Deepanjan Deb, Venkatraghavan S (Ingit Sir), Suraj Menon, Anannya Deb, Saahil Sharma, Samrat Sengupta, Anand Sivashankar Suraj, Prithwish and Anannya were a different league and led from start to finish to very comfortably take the top three spots in the quarter finals. All other qualifiers were in the hunt till the very end, with...

Akela, A Kela - The Solo Quiz  Set and conducted by Omkar Dhakephalkar Format: Written elims followed by a very complicated finals for top 8 (details below) Results: 1st: Kunal Sawardekar 2nd: Aditya Gadre 3rd: Samrat Sengupta 4th: Pranav Pawar Other finalists: Sandeep Shankar, Omkar Joshi, Arnold D'Souza and Gokul Panigrahi Report:  Omkar set this year's edition as the reigning Solo quiz champ from 2018. The quiz started with a nice elims set (a bit on the tougher side) which did a good job of separating the top 8 from the rest. The quiz saw a huge turnout - almost packed room with several benches needing to be double loaded. In the finals, Omkar unleashed a super fun, crazy format for the quiz. There would be a series of written "BLED" rounds featuring questions on Businessmen, Lawyers, Engineers and Doctors (or as Omkar put it "the only four meaningful professions in the world"). Each correct answer in these rounds would earn you a card w...

Date - 20/05/2018 Set and conducted by Kunal Sawardekar Format - 25 question elims, 36 question finals Results First - Team 5 -  Aditya Gadre, Venkatraghavan Sahasranaman and Ranajeet Soman (draft) - 132.5 pts Second - Team 2 -  Rahul Kottalgi, Omkar Yarguddi, +1 - 80 pts Joint Third - Team 1 -  Aniket Khasgiwale, Venkatesh Srinivasan and Vibhendu Tewari (draft) & Team 4 -  Omkar Dhakephalkar, Pranav Pawar and Nadeem Ansari (draft)  - 75 pts Other Finalists  Anannya Deb (draft), + 2 Report Kunal told us that the elims would be fairly simple and displayed a lesser seen side of the Dunning-Kruger effect where people with superior ability in a task assume it is equally easy for others. To put it simply, the elims were not at all simple and the spectre of self-doubt was haunting every quizzer present after the first few questions because nobody seemed to be getting anything. This improved in the latter half and questions became accessible. In...

Set and conducted by Omkar Dhakephalkar Format - Written, 40 questions Flavour -  General Results:  1st: Aniket Khasgiwale and Venkat Srinivasan (not vcat) - 25.5 points 2nd: Rahul Kottalgi and Pratyush Jha - 23 points 3rd: Venkatraghavan S and Aditya Gadre - 22 points Omkar put together a great set of workoutable, interesting and accessible questions. The questions covered a wide range of topics. Also kudos to Omkar for crisp framing of the questions - it was very clear what exactly was required in each question. No negatives I can think of for the quiz - except that perhaps some questions might have been better used in a live passing setting than at a written quiz  

BC Cup 2018 Set by Aditya Gadre, Aniket Khasgiwale and Yash Marathe Format: 30 question elim to determine the 8 quarter finalists. 60 question quarter to determine the top 4 for the semi finals. 40 question semi-final to determine the top 2. A 28 question final to determine the winner. Report The 10th edition of the BC Cup saw easily the strongest field we have ever seen at the BC Cup with at 6 past winners and general studs travelling from all over the place for the quiz. The elims were a bit easier than previous years and thus high scoring. Prithwish top scored with a phenomenal 21 out of 30 and Deepanjan was close behind with 20.5 points. The cut off was 14.5 and some very good sports quizzers just missed out with 12 to 14 points. This included former winners Ramkey and Shrirang, Venky, Souvikda, a regular quarterfinalists Shubhankar, Kaushik et al  The Quarter Finals The top 8 in the quarter finals were: Prithwish Datta, Deepanjan Deb, Venkatraghavan S (Ingit Sir...

Set by Aniket Khasgiwale, Yash Marathe and Aditya Gadre Format : 30 question elim to determine the 8 quarter finalists. Then a 60 question quarter final to determine the top 4 i.e. the semi finalists. A 40 question Semi final to narrow down to the top 2 in the finals. A 24 question Finals played over two legs (home and away) to determine the winner.  Report :  The 2017 edition of the BC Cup was amongst the toughest we've ever seen both in terms of the field as well as the close-ness of the results. The elims itself produced two huge shocks with two time BC Cup winner Anannya Deb and pre-quiz favourite Shouvik Guha both missing out on qualifying. Rahul Kottalgi, Kaushik Koley and Deepanjan Deb narrowly missed out by 1 point. The elims seemed to favour the younger lot with the most of the experienced folk losing out.  The Quarter Finals: The Quarter finalists were Shrirang Raddi, Venkatraghavan S (aka Ingit Sir), Gokul S, Shubhankar  Gokhale, Suraj Menon, Prat...

The BC Cup is the BCQC's annual bigly, YUUUUGE open solo quiz to crown the Best Sports Quizzer. This is the 9th edition of the quiz QMs :  Yash Marathe ,  Aniket Khasgiwale  and  Aditya Gadre Theme : Sports Teams : Individual Restrictions : (or the lack of one) Open quiz. Everyone is welcome Time : 12:45 pm, Saturday, 6th May, 2017 Venue : The Boat Club, College of Engineering Pune Prizes: Cash prizes totalling INR 9000 (up almost 40% this year!) 1st place: INR 3000 2nd place: INR 1500 3rd and 4th place: INR 1000 each 5th to 8th place: INR 500 each  Best U-22 participant (who doesn't qualify for the quarters): INR 500 Format:  First, a 30 question elim determines 8 qualifiers (or Quarter Finalists). These 8 people take part in a 60 question quarter final. The top four go through to the semi final. The semi-final will consist of 36 questions with scoring reset to zero. The top two then go to the Final where they face off one-on one for ...

Set and Conducted by Aditya Gadre Scorer: Pranav Joshi Final Results  1st: Kunal Sawardekar - 395 pts 2nd: Rahul Kottalgi (RSK) - 330 pts 3rd: J Krishnamurthi (JK) - 295 pts 4th: Aniket Khasgiwale - 250 pts Other Semi Finalists: Omkar Dhakephalkar - 175 pts Vibhendu Tiwari - 165 pts Pranav Pawar - 165 pts Shubhankar Gokhale - 150 pts Other Quarter-finalists: Kunal Thakar - 101 pts Ajai Ragde - 94 pts Charles Matthew - 82 pts Divij Ghose - 77 pts Ashwini Natu - 69 pts Mayank Mazumdar - 67 pts Gokul Panigrahi - 64 pts Omkar Yarguddi - 39 pts The quiz started with a 40 question prelim where the top 16 qualified. JK topped the elims with 23 points and Kunal and Khasgi came second with 20 points. The other 13 participants were clustered in a range of 7 points. The cut off was 13 with 3 stars (Ranajeet Soman just missed out on stars). All participants started with a score of (elims score * 3). This was followed by a a 40 question quarterfinal for the top 16....

Set by Aniket Khasgiwale, Yash Marathe and Aditya Gadre Format: 30 question elim to determine the 8 quarter finalists. Then a 60 question quarter final to determine the top 4 i.e. the semi finalists. A 40 question Semi final to narrow down to the top 2 in the finals. A 24 question Finals played over two legs (home and away) to determine the winner.  Report:  The elims were slightly easier than the previous year with more participants making double digits. Shrirang topped the elims with 14 points. The cut off was 8.5 with two stars. The field was quite strong and the youngsters Snehasis Panda and Rishwin Jackson put in a great performance to qualify for the Quarter finals. Seasoned sports quizzers Anand Sivashankar, Harish Kumar, Kaushik Koley, Sameer Deshpande and Deepanjan Deb all narrowly missed out on qualification.  The Quarter Finals: The Quarter finalists were Shrirang Raddi, Venkatraghavan S (aka Ingit Sir), Snehasis Panda, Shubhankar  Gokhale, Anurag...

BC InFest 2016 went off quite smoothly and as usual there were some great quizzes and more importantly a lot of laughs and general merriment. Here is what happened:  (All reports by Aniket Khasgiwale) Day 1: InFestYouUs InFestYouUs 2016 in its shorter avatar saw 22 people take part on topics of their choice (some even took part in topics not of their choice as some people didn't show up) This time, InFest took place in a room and not on BC lawns which IMO took away from the "mob effect". None-the-less the quizzes were enjoyable - with no set being inordinately difficult or easy skewing the results.   Kunal justified his military god tag was on target for 7 of his 10 questions on Fighter Aircraft of the Cold War to finish with the top score. Results (only scores above 5/10) Kunal Sawardekar (Fighter Aircraft of the Cold War) - 7 points  Omkar Yarguddi (Sitar in Hinudstani Classical Music) - 6 points Sampuran Singh (Fla...

This Sunday (25th) saw the BCQC October Open being conducted at Extentia in Kalyani Nagar. The event consisted of two quizzes with an impressive contrast in QMs – a short written quiz by post-Aashiqui (post-HAHK even) Pranav “Floyd” Joshi followed by the main Gen quiz by pre-CHOGM Samrat Sengupta. QUIZ 1: Name: What's In A Name? Maybe There's Something In a Name QM: Pranav "Floyd" Joshi Style: Written (20 questions) Flavor: General Results: 1. Aditya Gadre + Arnold D'Souza (16) 2. Omkar Dhakephalkar + Pranav Pawar (12.5) 3. Shivam Sharma + Suraj Prabhu (11.5) 4. Samrat Sengupta + Gokul (10) 5. Vineet Chaurasia + Sampooran Singh (9.5) 6. Divij + Dhananjay (9) This was originally billed as a quiz with no proper nouns in any of the answers. This is an interesting idea and automatically forces the setter to frame questions in a more "work-out-able" structure. However, for certain reasons unknown to us, the QM decided at the last minute...

Set and Conducted by Chinmay Tadwalkar Attended by ~100 teams Format: Written elims of 25 questions. Finals comprising 32 questions on Infinite Rebounds and a 6 question written theme round  Results: 1st:  Aniket Khasgiwale & Aditya Gadre:  185 pts 2nd: Kunal Sawardekar & Arnold D'Souza: 170 pts 3rd: J Ramanand & Debanjan Bose: 130 pts Jt 4th: Omkar Dhakephalkar & Pranav Pawar: 80 pts Jt 4th: Suraj Prabhu & Rohan Danait: 80 pts 6th: Uday Bansal & KN Chakraborty: 75 pts An good solid quiz put up by Chinmay.  The quiz started with a 25 question written elims. The elims was a close affair with all of the teams that qualified bunched in the 13.5 to 17 bracket. I felt most of the questions were based on nice fundas but were not sufficiently clued - making the elim a bit more "seasoned quizzer friendly" than is ideal. The finals had 2 rounds of 16 questions each on Infinite bounce - with 5 pounces per half at +10/-10  The cont...

Quiz 1: Pop Culture Quiz by Kunal Sawardekar Format: Written quiz with 26 questions. Every question carried 2 points. Teams had the option of pouncing on questions by "staring" them. The scoring was as follows:  +3/-1 if number of starred question was less than 10;  +3/-2 for 10-20 questions starred, and +3/-3 for more than 20 questions starred Results: 1st: Shivam Sharma and Pranav Pawar: 49 pts 2nd: Shantanu G and Shantanu P: 45 pts 3rd: Vikram Joshi and Suraj Prabhu: 43 pts The quiz was a nice one, but to be brutally honest - not up to what i expected from Kunal - especially given how mind-blastingly brilliant his last pop culture quiz was . Positives: - There were a few brilliant questions that had everyone spontaneously clapping - There was a lot of AV content which made the quiz fun to go through Negatives: - Unlike the last quiz there were few questions which could be genuinely be worked out - I also felt there were a few too many questions on Vid...

Ready to make history? Participate in the world's first* ever posters quiz on Sat, 29 Aug. Venue: COEP Academic Block Time: 1:30 pm Format: written prelims, followed by a 6-team final. Some college student teams will get to be part of the final. Theme: a movie & TV quiz through the lens of posters. Attending the quiz? Join the event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/973328172708443/?ref=4&action_history=null * this may be a completely false claim.

(Report by Arnold D'Souza) The July Open was held on Sunday the 26th of July, 2015 at the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC). The even consisted of two quizzes—one general and one themed. GEN QUIZ: Set by: Saraswat Chatterjee and Rohan Setlur Teams: 14 teams of 2 – (6 qualify for finals) – no draft picks. Final Result: 1st – Anurakshat Gupta + Madhusadan (120) 2nd – Debanjan Bose + Suraj Prabhu (115) 3rd – Arnold D'Souza + Anjali Jospeh (95) 4th – Samrat Sengupta + Aniketh Rallabhandi (85) 5th – Shantanu + Shantanu (60) 6th – Gokul (25) Comments: The elims were an interesting change from the standard written format. There were 15 questions all of which were only on a pounce for +10/-5 each. In effect, this was like a written elims where you got -5 for a wrong answer but had the option to leave a question blank without any loss. However, since the live scores were being kept on the blackboard, this meant that one could strategically decide on each question t...