Symbhav'13 - 5 quizzes for Colleges (1 Open)

The Symbiosis Law School Quiz Club with the support of its alumni will be organizing a set of 5 quizzes as a part of its Cultural festival - Symbhav'13!

Attractive prizes to be won. Be part of the Quizzing Extravaganza!

The quizzes are as follows –

1) Shantanu Tomar Memorial Quiz on Law, Politics, Economics and International Affairs

Date – 22 February 2012 (Friday)

Venue –SLS Classrooms

Time – Eliminations Followed by Finals– 10:00 am till 01:00 pm

2) Les Quizrables – SpEnt Quiz

Date – 22 February 2012 (Friday)

Venue – SLS Auditorium

Time – Eliminations Followed by Finals– 03:00 pm till 6:00 pm

3) The Desi Quiz

Date – 23 February 2012

Venue – SLS Classroom

Time – Eliminations Followed by Finals– 10:30 am till 1:30 pm

4) Jigyasa – The General Quiz

Date – 23 February 2012

Venue – SLS Classroom

Time – Eliminations Followed by Finals– 03:00 pm till 6:00 pm

PRIZES FOR ABOVE MENTIONED FOUR QUIZZES–

1st – Rs. 7,000

2nd – Rs. 5,000

3rd – Rs. 3,000

4th-6th - Vouchers and other attractive coupons.

(Prizes are subject to change upon finalization.)

Rules and Regulations for the above mentioned four Quizzes–

• Two Members per Team (Open to COLLEGES and SCHOOLS only)

• On the Spot-Registration

• Cross- College Teams Allowed

• Top Six Teams in the Finals

5) Biz Ipsa Loquitor – College and Corporate Tech-Business Quiz

Date – 24 February 2012

Venue – SLS Auditorium

Time – Eliminations Followed by Finals– 11:00 am till 2:30 pm

PRIZES –

1st – Rs. 20,000

2nd – Rs. 10,000

3rd – Rs. 5,000

4th - 6th places - Rs 1,000

(Prizes are subject to change upon finalization.)

Rules and Regulations –

• Two Members per Team (College and Corporate Teams Allowed)

• On the Spot Registration

• Cross- College and Cross-Corporate Teams Allowed (A College-Corporate Team Would be Considered a Corporate Team for the Qualification Purposes)

• Top 3 College Teams and Top 3 Corporate Teams Make it to the Finals

For Specific Queries, Please Contact-

Neel D’Souza (+91 99202 55335)

Sachin Ravi (+91 99700 30327)

CuriosITi - the Tender Leaves Corporate Quiz for IT companies

Tender Leaves is organising a corporate quiz for IT companies as part of a fund-raiser for "Teach For India". Details below and this link.

April BCQC Opens in Pictures

April 2012 BCQC Opens - General (written) & Business

Two Open quizzes by the BCQC this Sunday (22 April), a short written quiz followed by a Business Quiz. Here are the details:

Date: 22nd April (Sunday)

Venue

Seminar Hall II, College of Engineering, Pune

Quiz 1: "Mostly Harmless"

Quizmaster: Suraj Menon

Flavour: General

Format: Written quiz i.e. no prelims-finals format; Up to two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees

Timings 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm (report by 1.45 pm); answers & results immediately follow.

Quiz 2: "Bizzy Quizzy"

Quizmasters: Raghav & Sachin (who recently won the Campus version of the Tata Crucible Business Quiz; this is Raghav's farewell quiz as he is graduating soon)

Flavour: Business

Format: Prelims, followed by Finals; Up to two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees.

Timings 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm (report by 3.15 pm)

How to get to the venue

The College of Engineering, Pune (also known as COEP or just "Engineering College") is located very close to other landmarks such as Pune Station, Sancheti Flyover, and the RTO. The Seminar Hall is on the opposite side of the Boat Club (where our informal weekend sessions take place), near the Main Building.

Contact

Phone: Suraj (98903 59065), Avaneendra (9011040388), Email: suraj.sk[at]gmail.com

Prizes

Prizes for each finalist, for the Best College Team, the Best School Team, and the Best Newbie Team. Lots of audience prizes.
The BCQC is on Facebook and Twitter as well.

some questions from previous BC Opens are now available at the BCQC Questions Blog.

"Symbhav '12" : 5 Symbiosis Law School Quizzes

Announcement from SLS quizzers:

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The Symbiosis Law School Quiz Club with the support of its alumni will be organizing a set of 5 quizzes as part of its Cultural fest- Symbhav'12!

Attractive prizes to be won. Be part of the Quizzing Extravaganza!

The quizzes are as follows –

1) Bharat Ek Khoj - India Quiz

Date – 24 February 2012 (Friday)

Venue –SLS Classrooms

Time – Eliminations Followed by Finals– 10:00 am till 01:00 pm

2) Jigyasa – General Quiz

Date – 24 February 2012 (Friday)

Venue – SLS Auditorium

Time – Eliminations Followed by Finals– 03:30 pm till 6:30 pm

3) Shantanu Tomar Memorial Quiz on Law, Politics, Economics and International Affairs

Date – 25 February 2012

Venue – SLS Classroom

Time – Eliminations Followed by Finals– 10:30 am till 1:30 pm

4) Quizzine – Music, Entertainment, Literature, Arts, and Sports (MELAS) Quiz

Date – 25 February 2012

Venue – SLS Classroom

Time – Eliminations Followed by Finals– 03:00 pm till 6:00 pm

PRIZES FOR ABOVE MENTIONED FOUR QUIZZES–

1st – Rs. 7,000

2nd – Rs. 5,000

3rd – Rs. 3,000

4th-6th - Vouchers and other attractive coupons.

(Prizes are subject to change upon finalization.)

Rules and Regulations for the above mentioned four Quizzes–

• Two Members per Team (Open to COLLEGES and SCHOOLS only)

• On the Spot-Registration

• Cross- College Teams Allowed

• Top Six Teams in the Finals

5) Biz Ipsa Loquitor – College and Corporate Tech-Business Quiz

Date – 26 February 2012

Venue – SLS Auditorium

Time – Eliminations Followed by Finals– 12:30 pm till 2:30 pm

PRIZES –

1st – Rs. 20,000

2nd – Rs. 10,000

3rd – Rs. 5,000

4th - 6th places - Rs 1,000

(Prizes are subject to change upon finalization.)

Rules and Regulations –

• Two Members per Team (College and Corporate Teams Allowed)

• On the Spot Registration

• Cross- College and Cross-Corporate Teams Allowed (A College-Corporate Team Would be Considered a Corporate Team for the Qualification Purposes)

• Top 3 College Teams and Top 3 Corporate Teams Make it to the Finals

For Specific Queries, Please Contact-

Raghav Chakravarthy N.C (+91 99700 30327)

Sachin Ravi (+91 99700 30327)

Shruttima Ehersa (+91 97626 89557)

SCIT BIZ QU!Z results

Report by Avaneendra

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1. Debanjan Bose and Bhupinder Singh (SIMC) - 105 pts
2. Aayush Kharbanda + 1 (Matrix Business School) - 95 pts
3. Nithin Santosh and Kurien George (SCMHRD) - 65 pts
4. Varun Sreedharan + Sandip Kota (SCIT) - 40 pts
5. Kumar Saurabh and V. Nivesh (BIMHRD) - 40 pts
6. Sudarshan Kabra + Sachidanand Bhat (SCIT) - 15 pts

Quiz Master: Nikhil Motlag
Questions Set By: Avaneendra Bhargav

Brand Equity Quiz - Pune round results

Date: 14 May, 2010
Conducted by: Derek O'Brien
Venue: Ishanya , Pune

Turnoutt: 23 teams

Standings
1st: Infosys (C): Ajay & Jayakumar (95)
2nd: Advinus Therapeutics (A): Suraj & Siddharth (58)
3rd: Cognizant (B): Niranjan & Ramanand (55)
4th: Neo Green (D): Shubhodeep & Sandeep (40)
5th: RBI (F): Mohana & Priyam Bhattacharya (35)
6th: QED Baton (E): Nikhil & Tejas (10)
(IBM - Vishwajeet & Ramanathan just missed out)

Report
The theme of the year was 'social networking', so much so that it also was the answer to a question. This was one of the few really good questions in an otherwise routine Brand Equity quiz round. The finals began with a round of direct multiple-choice questions (no passing), went on to a round of 'dry' questions, followed by a 'identify' visual round (reversed passing) and another 'dry' round. The fifth round was an audio-video round, at the end of which the last team dropped out (there was a two-way tie for the 5th place). In the final buzzer round, 3 teams left the stage after 4 questions, and 2 questions later, the quiz ended as Infosys took an unassailable lead. However, the quiz had been decided in the 'identify' round thanks to a hat-trick of answers from the winners, who scooped up 35 points to leapfrog to the top, which they never relinquished since.

The questions zig-zagged from the immensely ordinary (such as identifying the poster of 'Kati Patang') to the slightly controversial ("the difference between data compression and data mining") and a couple of excellent ones (especially well-answered by Advinus). Last year's venue (the amphitheatre in the same location) had a better ambience than the banquet hall thingy for this time. For the quizzing geek, there was yet more evidence of the iniquities of not using Infinite Rebounds (Bounce), but quizzing philosophy has always been secondary in such events. The idea of asking audience members to ask prelims questions was more than off-putting. However, overall, the quiz was a lot less annoying than some other business quizzes, and the audience seemed to enjoy the show.

Questions from the prelims here.

Clairvoyance 2010

The Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SIIB), Pune is organizing its annual national level management event “IGNISENSE ’10” on 16th and 17th January, 2010.

Update: This event has been cancelled.
From a mail sent by the SIIB team:

Dear All,
We are sorry to inform that Clairvoiyance 2010, the Corporate Quiz being organised on 17th Jan 2010 at SIIB,Hinjewadi is not being held due to a pull out from our sponsers.
We are very sorry for the inconvinience caused and we sincerely apologise for the same.
Regards
Team Ignisense
SIIB,Pune.

Court Martial – The Neev Quiz (SCMHRD)

A quizzing announcement by SCMHRD:

Court Martial – The Neev Quiz

Knowledge sits in judgment, while the accused stand represented by cold hard facts defining the truth. As the charge-sheet is read out, the prisoners- of- fact walk through a mine field of anxiety, fear, and helplessness. One by one they overcome harsh allegations of breakdown of discipline and clarity to win their freedom from mediocrity.

Court Martial - The Neev Quiz brings together the brightest minds in the country, seeking to crack one of the most awaited events on the quizzing calendar. Court Martial this year will pass judgment on the most talented prisoners-of-fact in India. The quiz is designed and hosted by students of The SCMHRD Quiz Club.

When?
The interrogation starts with the preliminary round at 10:30 AM on the 13th of December 2009 (Sunday)

How?
To take part, you can register Online by clicking here http://www.neev-scmhrd.com
Or register at the venue. We strongly recommend registering online.

Where?
The Quiz will be held at SCMHRD, Symbiosis International University Campus, Hinjewadi. We will arrange for transportation from Deep Bunglow Chowk, Pune to the campus and back for interested participants. To avail of this facility, kindly register online.

What?
Apart from bragging rights, prizes worth Rs 25,000 are at stake.

The Rules of Engagement:
1. The quiz is open to all students of PG & UG colleges. ( No Correspondence Course Students)
2. Each team to have two members.
3. Both the team members should be from the same college.
4. Please bring your Ids along for registration verification.
5. Registration is open till 10:29:59 Hrs on 13th Dec, 2009.


For any queries please contact:
Abhishek: 09665033938
Amneet: 09730089513

Brand Equity 2009 - Pune round

Date: 25 Apr, 2009
Conducted by: Derek O'Brien
Venue: Ampitheatre, Ishanya , Pune

Standings
1st: Savoir Faire (E): Rajiv & Harsh
2nd: Cognizant Tech. Solutions (A): Harish & Ramanand
3rd: Kotak (B): Ashit + Samrat
4th: ZS Associates (F): Prasanna & Mihir

5th: QEDbaton (D): Nikhil & Tejas
6th: Mahindra (C): Sanjay & Amol
Report
Savoir Faire once again prevailed in a seemingly tight Brand Equity regional round held in Pune. About 30 teams took part, a far cry from previous years when the R-word was a distant galaxy away. The little venue only underscored the current economic climate, but surprisingly turned out to be a compact little place with enough atmosphere for a quiz.

The questions themselves were of the usual BEQ nature: some rank sitters (being asked identify to identify films such as HAHK based merely on a song being played), some strange, hard-to-verify ones ("what does taxod(o?)us mean?") and some good questions ("fans of which brand are associated with the term BrickCon"). The prize-to-question-quality ratio is reminiscent of the economic values of the IPL. This blogger was attending a BEQ event after 4 years and sees that except for the questions becoming even more general in nature, not much had changed.

On the positive side, the quiz master was restrained in his humour and even excellent in repartee and audience-engagement. The "fight against blindness" theme was well-received and made a welcome change from the frivolity of past BEQs.

The national final play out next Sunday at Bombay.

Questions & Answers from the quiz are available at this blog post.

Tata Crucible 2009 - Pune results

This report from the official site tells us that SCMHRD's Gaurav Parab and Amneet Sodhi won a tight contest, with Symbiosis Law (Subhodeep Jash & Suvajit Chakraborthy) finishing second. Well done to the winners!

IIPM Management Quiz 2008 - Report

Date: 02 April, 2008
Venue: IIPM Tower, ICC Tower
Set by: Students of IIPM, Pune
Conducted by: Meghashyam Shirodkar
Theme: Business and General, College quiz

Quiz Final Results
1st: SIBM
2nd: Symbiosis Law School
3rd: AISSMS
Other Finalists: SIBM-2, ICTM, SCOE

Link: Report in the Indian Express.

Srujan 2008

Date: 5th Apr 2008
Venue: Telco Colony, Tata Motors

General Quiz

Set and Conducted by Vinay N.
Format:18 on IR; 6 on D&P; 6 non-passing identify-in-3-clues; 6 on D&P

Results:

1st: Prasann Potdar and Amit Pandeya (D): 80
2nd: Salil Bijur and Nirad Inamdar (C): 70
3rd: Saransh Verma and Karan Chawla (B): 65
4th: Abhishek Nagaraj and Aniket Khasgiwale (A): 55
5th: Aditya Sharma and Anirudh Lamba (F): 40
6th: Sirisha and B.V. Harish Kumar (E): 30

Business Quiz

Set and Conducted by Vinay N.
Format:IR and D&P rounds, a 'betting round' (need clarification on this) and a D&P round connecting to a theme

Results:

1st: Prasann Potdar and Amit Pandeya (D): 100
2nd: Vishal Kelkar and Saurabh Goel (B): 95
3rd: Nikhil Motlag and Ramakrishnan Sridhar (B): 50
4th: Abhishek Nagaraj and Weena (C): 30
Joint 5th: Anubhav Chatterjee and Vijay Krishna C.V. (A): 20
Joint 5th: Yash Tamaskar and Siddharth Cavale (A): 20

Idea Cellular Brand Equity 2008 - Pune zonal round

Date: April 2, 2008

Another entertaining event by Derek O Brien. The finalists on stage (in alphabetical order) were from BMC Software, Honeywell, Infosys, Savoir Faire, TCS, and ZS Associates. Savoir Faire from Goa had been winning the Pune round of BEQ for the last two years and were hot favourites to win again. The team from TCS, Ramanathan and Abha (Did I get the names right?) did well to pip them on the tie-breaker question by answering Roshogollas to "What is K C Das credited with inventing?".

The theme of this year was how quizzing has evolved in India over the years. There were mentions of Siddharth basu and even the cover of Mastermind 5 (but sadly, no mention of the winner of Mastermind 5 who hails from Pune) The rounds and the representation of the scores were also in line with the year that was being commemorated. The highlight for me was to listen to the audio clip of Ameen Sayani hosting the BQC on Radio. Jug and Bunny Suraiya were also present. TCS, the leaders after the first two rounds were presented with two bottles of Kingfisher beer and a chicken each - apparently that's how the prizes were way back in the late 60's. The elims were simple and interesting. Lot of teams felt they missed out on Dollies. The finals consisted of seven rounds. The bottom two teams (ZS Associates and BMC Software) got 'relegated' after the first five rounds. The scoring was 10 points for all correct answers (direct or pass); no infinite (re)bounds format of passing. Some teams did suffer because of the varying level of toughness of questions. After the Buzzer round in which all teams tried to play safe, the third and fourth placed teams (Infosys and Honeywell) were asked to leave.

TCS and Savoir Faire didn't want to take too many risks in the last round and Derek had to pull out couple of extra questions to resolve the tie.

Final scores

TCS: 80
Savoir Faire: 75
Infosys: 30
Honeywell: 25
BMC Software: 25
ZS Associates: 20

BCQC highlights

Abhishek Nagaraj answered the English Lit. question on what are called Gamps after a character Mrs. Gamp in a Dickens story, while Vasu answered the question on who gave his voice to the obituary video of Art Buchwald.

Report by Harish, who was one of the finalists.

Trivianomics - September 2007 BC Business Open Quiz - Report

Date: 16 September, 2007
Venue: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL

Open Quiz - "Trivianomics"
Set and Conducted by: B.V. Harish Kumar
Theme: Business

Quiz Final Results
(22 seamless IR + 4 Pune round + 4 final connects round)
cutoff: 10.5/25 1st: Anand Sivashankar + Vibhendu Tiwari (F) - 50
1.2nd: Samrat Sengupta + J. Ramanand (C)
1.3rd: Vishwajeet Narvekar + Mrs. Narvekar (A)

2nd: Salil Bijur + Harsh Ketkar (B) - 40
2.2nd: Abhishek Nagaraj + Suvajit Chakraborty (E)
2.3rd: Arnab Bhattacharya + Ramanathan (D)

Notes

• The reporting results will clearly show that this quiz was not played in the usual way. It began like a conventional quiz format, with 6 teams. But after a couple of rounds, the bottom two teams were "bought-out" by the top 2, resulting in 4 remaining teams. Finally, we had a face-off between 2 teams of 6 people each. Salil-Harsh rightly called it the "qawwali" format :-)
• The quiz was nice and not too taxing. Most questions were interesting and workable, presenting a pleasant face of business quizzing
• The elims were quite good too

Announcement - Next BC Quizzes

The Boat Club Quiz Club is organising two quizzes on Sunday, 16th Sep 2007. Entry is free.

Venue: Dewang Mehta auditorium, Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune-16 (see this link for directions)

Details:

Quiz 1: "Trivianomics 2007" - Open Business Quiz
Time: 9.30 am to 12.30 pm; reporting at 9.15 am
Teams of 2, 6 teams in the final.
QM: B.V. Harishkumar
No prior registration.
Certificates and prizes for all finalists, as well as audience prizes.

Quiz 2: "Amnesia 2007 - Surviving Factual Harassment"
BCQC September Open General Quiz
Time: 2 pm to 7 pm, reporting at 1:30 pm
Teams of 2, 6 teams in the final.
QM: Niranjan Pedanekar
No prior registration needed.
Open to all.
Prizes for all finalists; Prizes for best all-school, all-college, and newbie teams as well as for audience

All prizes sponsored by Landmark, Pune

Special Prizes:
The 'HEISENBERG' Award
for the determined efforts to be uncertain regarding the answer

The 'MARADONA-HAJMOLA' Award
for impeccable passing ability

The 'X-FILES' Award
for providing vague answers that could only be explained through the paranormal

The 'RGV ki AAG' Award
for confusing creativity & creating confusion

The 'ANU MALIK' Award
for gross manipulation of available resources

The 'UPA' Award
for consuming exorbitant time in taking a 'trivial' decision

Contact:
Email: contact (at) bcqc (dot) org

Keep visiting http://bcqc.org for updates and online quizzes

The Techie Kaun Quizzes at SCIT

 

Day One:

Technology Quiz

 

Date: 1st Aug

Venue: SCIT Audi, Hingewadi.

 

QM: Suhel Banerjee, Google.

 

Results:

1st : Rohit Jain + 1 (SIBM) 100 Points

2nd: Siddharth Dani and Rashmi Vadanagare (VIT) 95 Points

3rd: Abhishek Nagaraj and Sudeep Pradhan (COEP) 93 Points

 

Nature:

Technology was a bit of a misnomer. Mostly involved tech-business along with tinges of including movies and politics. QM was innovative and passed the litmus test called Siddharth Dani, who otherwise was in plein forme as far as expletives for people is considered. The best thing was the sense of BC informality to what was quite a big quiz. QM must be commended for saying stuff like "you might want to kill me after this", and then proceeded to give a quite arbit connection involving half-sisters and full monsters. nnovative rounds included using Google Trends (search volumes for specific keywords vs time) and mostly included us guessing why there was a spike in searches for a particular keyword at a certain time.

 

Main complaint has to be scoring system. Very very unfair, although included doubling something which I personally don't mind. However long connects has 30 - 15 D&P scoring, that never gave us a chance, and Siddharth + Rashmi were done in by negatives when they doubled. In conclusion, great quiz and enjoyed myself if only for the questions. But sir, next time please to have seamless IR.

 

 

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Day Two:

Bizzy B - Business Quiz

 

Date: 2st Aug

Venue: SCIT Audi, Hinngewadi.

 

QM: Avinash Mudaliar, 3xUS.

 

Results:

1st : Rohit Jain + 1 (SIBM) 70 Points

2nd: (SPJAIN) 55(?) Points

3rd: (I forget) (i forget) Points

 

(Help!)

 

Notes:

 

Firstly elims had negative scoring. Bad. Very very bad. Next, questions involved recently changed MDs, the various posts of Gopal Balakrishnan and dates from history and ranks of organizations in rich-lists. Bad. Very very bad. To be fair, the few good questions were overshadowed by their quite badly behaved friends. Add the usual symbiosis fundaes like, "This exam is like CAT", "You should have known how it works, you have given the CAT" and "OK, fine. If you did not know, good. Now it will help you when you give the CAT". But, I digress.

 

Here enters the QM. Now I have a feeling, the QM entered here figuratively as well because if the finals was anything to go by - there is no way the same person could have set the elims, or if I am mistaken it just showed an extreme apathy towards the elims. Anyway, the finals were quite excellent. There were fundaes, Shamanth style question asking, (but nowhere near as cool). However this quiz too was affected by the bane of all quizzes, showing smart-ass ads and asking what happens next, and indentify this ad. If the QM could have veered away from this temptation, the quality of questions would have been elevated greatly. The presentation was a bit too loud and 'showy' for our liking, but what to do.

 

In general, must say the guys at Symbi are improving as far as flexibility, choosing of QMs, and management in general is concerned. Now, if only Dani hadn't called them Quiz Nazis, I would've said, well done!