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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 ...

The BC Cup is  the BCQC's annual solo, open, loooooooong quiz to crown the Best Sports Quizzer in Pune, perhaps Maharshtra (probably India). This is the eight edition.  Format:       First, a 30 question prelim 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 a 24 question final.  The top college finisher (UG only, we may ask for ID cards) will get a prize in addition to all the top eight open finishers Administrivia     QMs:  Yash Marathe, Aniket Khasgiwale and Aditya Gadre Theme:  Sports Teams:  Individual Restrictions:  (or the lack of one) Open quiz. Everyone is welcome When?   12:45 pm ,  Saturday, 7th May, 2016 Where?  The Boat Club, College of Engi...

The ninth edition of MahaQuizzer will be held on Sunday 26th May 2013. As usual, the quiz will require takers to answer 150 questions in 90 minutes.Prizes in each city for best School, College, Lady and Open entrant. You can register for the quiz using this link . List of registered participants is here . The event starts at 1000 hrs sharp. Participants are requested to report latest by 0930 hrs on 26 May 2013 at the respective locations. In Pune, the event will be held at the College of Engineering, Pune, Shivajinagar. The room number is yet to be confirmed. Vibhav Bhave will proctor the proceedings.

Set and Conducted by:  Meghashyam Shirodkar Format:  Teams of 2. ~20 teams participated. Top 6 teams in finals.  Infinite Pounce format for the finals. Results 1st: Shubhankar Gokhale and Avaneendra Bhargav - 172.5 points 2nd: Rohan Danait and Vibhav Bhave - 123.5 points 3rd: Ranajeet Soman and Aditya Chandorkar - 122 points 4th: Parminder Singh & Pritesh Sinha  5th: Anshuj Sharma & Ashish Kumar 6th: Nirmoho Banerjee & Anugrah Nayar Report The quiz had a lower turnout than expected for reasons not very clear. The elims questions were on printed sheets (which I personally prefer). The questions were overall good, a few great questions, a couple not-so-great (read: Jaitapur, Alandi weddings).  The finals evinced some nice fundae and the pounce did not take up much time as we feared. Shubhankar and AB lead from pretty much the beginning. Our team was second for the majority  of the finals till a negative on th...

Date : 19-10-2012 Theme : General Set and Conducted by : Avaneendra Bhargav Format : 30 question elims.  Finals - 10 question written round, 18+18 IR Results:  1st place : Meghashyam Shirodkar, Niranjan Pedanekar, Amit Garde  132 points 2nd place : Ranajeet Soman, Aditya Chandorkar, Rohan Jain  65 points 3rd place : Sachin Ravi, Suraj Prabhu, Abhinav Pathak   28 points 4th place : Bharat Marathe, Omkar Dhakhephalkar, Debopriyo Moulik  22 points 5th place: Finehas Pinto + 2     21 points 6th place : CVR Shastry + 2     0 points The quiz started late by almost an hour and a half (nobody complained though).  There was a lot of bureaucratic decision making going on with teams made to sit in order of their registration numbers for no practical reason and time was wasted on petty issues. The elims were good with an even spread of topics. The lack of a projector was a hindrance as the teams sitting...

The most Bengali sounding non-Bengali Oboneendro (Avaneendra) Bhargav has set and will host this edition of the quiz which has a cult following in the city. Promises to be good. Show up to have a good time. On the spot registrations allowed.     P.S. There are food stalls with delicious Bong dishes at the venue. NOT complementary though.

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 .

What: World Quizzing Championships , a written solo competition held simultaneously around the world. When: 2 June, 2012 (Saturday), 3 pm to 6 pm Where in Pune: Seminar hall II, College Of Engineering, Pune (COEP) Registration: free, but prior registration encouraged to guarantee a seat. Register using this form . Coordinator: Amit Patil

Organised by: KQA Conducted in Pune by: Nithin Manayath (many thanks!) Venue: COEP (thanks to Gaurav Keskar for the arrangements) School Winner: Aditya (DAV School) [Runner's up: Shaunak (DAV)] College Winner: Yogarshi (IIT Kharagpur) Open Category Winner: Kunal Sawardekar(63) Number of participants: ~30 Official final standings: keep an eye on this link . All scores are provisional pending adjudication.

Please see below for details on Mahaquizzer. 22nd is the last day for online registrations. Registering in advance ensures your seat and also helps KQA & BCQC plan the number of seats & papers. The Pune venue : Co-ordinator: Ramanand J / Gaurav Keskar KQA Proctor: Nithin Mayanath Seminar Hall II (Next to main Auditorium), College of Engineering Pune (COEP), Shivajinagar, Pune-5 KQA Announcement The eighth edition of MahaQuizzer will be held in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, New Delhi, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Panaji, Coimbatore, Thrissur and Mysore on Sunday 27th May 2012. MahaQuizzer is the National Solo Quizzing Championship. It is open to all, though we recommend that the taker be at least 12 years of age. The quiz will require takers to answer 150 questions in 90 minutes--in celebration of the ethic of working out questions. Entry is free in most centres; some quiz associations may charge a nominal entry fee to recover...

( Report By Avaneendra & Nikhil )   SRUJAN 2012, an annual fest conducted by the Graduate Engineer Trainees (GET) of TATA Motors had organized a General quiz. The Elimination round had quite a few repeat questions or peters as we call it however Finals was definitely an improvement over the Elims with some brilliant questions. The Finals consisted of 7 rounds: 2 IR, 2 D&P, 2 AV (Hollywood OSTs and Minimalist movie posters and 1 MVC) Quiz Masters: Gokul G Anugrah & Deepak Vishnu. TEAM 1: Rohan Jain & Ranajeet Soman - 130 TEAM 2: Shekhar Raghav & Ujjwal Mukherjee - 20 TEAM 3: Abhijit Datta & Anurag Tumma - 40 TEAM 4: Kunal Sawardekar & Avaneendra Bhargav - 130 TEAM 5: Pramod Bharadwaj & Shounak Deshmukh - 10 TEAM 6: Nikhil Motlag & Venkat Srinivasan - 45 The winner was decided by the tie breaker. TEAM 4 finished first.

(results from Avaneendra) The Norway Open Results ( Global Scores ) Kunal Sawardekar - 80 Saikat Sarkar - 73 Samrat Sengupta - 72 Ranajeet Soman - 55 Anurag Danda - 50 Cvr Shastry - 48 Omkar Dhakephalkar - 47 Kshitij Jyoti - 45 Abhijith K Anil - 36 Rujul Godse - 35 Aniket Dass - 31 ( Local Scores ) Yash Marathe - 106 Prizes: 1st Open Category : Kunal Sawardekar 2nd Open Category : Samrat Sengupta Best College/School/Newbie : Saikat Sarkar

Quizmaster : Kunal Sawardekar Flavour : General Format : Written prelims; Finals with 6 teams (but with the Draft Pick system: after prelim, top 6 teams to qualify for finals, members of next 3 teams will be distributed among them.) Up to two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees Date & Time 24th March (Saturday, not Sunday) Timings : 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm (report by 2.45 pm) Venue Seminar Hall II, College of Engineering, Pune 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 Bes...

There is a quiz in Dr. D Y Patil College of Engg, Akurdi. Rohan Jain and I (Ranajeet) will be doing the quiz. Details follow. (May be subject to slight changes. Changes will be updated.) Venue : Dr. D.Y. Patil College of Engineering, Akurdi Date and Time : 11th March, 11 am (tentative) Registration Fee : 50 Rs Prize money : 3k , 2k , 1k for 1st 2nd and 3rd respectively Registrations can be done on the spot. For colleges (UG/PG) only. Teams of 2. Cross college allowed. For details contact : Swapnil Pandit 8149333678 From Ranajeet Soman on the FB group

(writing this from memory and 2nd hand reports - kindly add/correct) What: Landmark Quiz, Pune Round When: 3 Mar, 2011 Where: Dhanvantri Auditorium, AFMC, Pune Conducted by: Dr. Navin Jayakumar Results 1st: Nawabs of Mahabs [Rajiv, Gopal, Vibhendu] 2nd: Haseena ka Paseena [Vikram, JK, Sumant] 3rd: Well of Course [Bala, Anannya, Atul] Other finalists: [Srinath, Abhinav, Shubhankar], [Avaneendra, Kunal, Navin], [Anand, Amit Garde, Meghashyam], [Priyambad, Amit Pandeya, Ameya Samant], Dark Horse and Black Sheep [Ranjiv Ravi,Vansa David,Bharath S] Other Results Best Corporate Team: TCS ("Born Losers", Suresh Kumar, Aniruddha Dutta and Pravin Varma) Best Two School Teams : Army Public School ( V Soumya, Abhimanyu Bhadauria, Rishiraj, Baruni Goel, Alok Gupta, Arjun Gade) Best College: Quizkanths (IIM Indore: Abhishek Upadya, Rameen Khan and Prasnna Patange) Review comments can be posted in the comments section for this blog Photos of the event (from the Landmark ...

Details: When: 3 March, 3 pm Where: Dhanvantari Auditorium, AFMC, Off Solapur Road, Pune * Landmark Events FB page * Online registration page .

Date: 25 February 2012 Venue: VIT, Pune Theme: General Set by: Sameer Deshpande, J. Ramanand, Suraj Menon, Salil Bijur. Siddharth Dani, Ganesh Hegde, Arnab Pal, Yash Marathe, Bharat Marathe, Kunal Thakar, Anupam Akolkar (Let me know if I'm missing anyone out here) QM: Sameer Deshpande Results: (Format: Dry IR + Amul Ad round + ABCDE round) 1st: Shubhankar Gokhale and Abhinav Dasgupta 2nd: Avaneendra Bhargav and Kunal Sawardekar 3rd: Ranajeet Soman and Rohan Jain 4th: 5th: Samrat Sengupta + 1 6th: (I couldn't catch the names of the members of teams 4 and 6 and Samrat Sir's teammate. Let me know in the comments and I'll be happy to update)

Sent in by Maitreyi: Quiz-o-mania, VIT's annual open general quiz is happening this Saturday. Details below. http://melange.ind.in/ quizomania.pdf Date: 25-02-2012, Saturday Venue: Auditorium, VIT, Pune ( map ) Reporting time 10am.  Elims start at 10.30 sharp. Will be over before lunch.  Flavour: general Open to all.  Teams of 2 Registration fee: Rs. 100 per team.  Registration can be done online on  http://melange.ind.in/  or on-the-spot Quiz-master: Varun Afzulpurkar +91-76668-61110 ( varun.afzulpurkar@gmail.com ) 

Partial Results based on hearsay Date: 18 Feb, 2011 Venue: Army Institute of Technology, Pune Set and conducted by: Meghashyam Shirodkar Theme: General Quiz Final Results Format: 1st: Suraj Menon + Avaneendra Bhargav 2nd: Shubhankar Gokhale + Abhinav Dasgupta 3rd: Srinath + Kunal S 4th: Anand Sivashankar + Anannya Deb 5th: Ranajeet Soman + Rohan Jain 6th: Vikram Joshi + Harish Kumar Report Looking for the rest of the details. Crowdsourcing this.

From Hitesh's post on the BCQC Facebook Group The Debating &  Quizzing Society,AFMC presents a series of 4 quizzes-(2 open &; 2 college quizzes) on the 19th-20th Feb as part of its annual fest-SILHOUETTES... ---19th Feb,SUNDAY Scrummage Flavour-OPEN sports quiz QM:  Chandrakant Nair Time:9:45 am Prizes:5000|3000|vouchers The SHYAM BHATT memorial QUIZ Flavour-OPEN general Quiz QM: Chandrakant Nair Time:2:00 pm Prizes:7000|5000|3000|best college team|best school team|vouchers ---20th Feb,MONDAY The INDOPHILE Quiz Flavour- all things Indian QM:  Hitesh Mahato College only quiz,cross-college/PG teams allowed Time-9:45 a.m. Prizes:4000|2000|Vouchers QURIOSITY Flavour-General Quiz set & conducted by:The team of( Kshitij Jyoti , Saikat Sarkar  ,Kamesh gupta,Mridul Janweja) College only quiz,cross-college/PG teams allowed Time-2:00 p.m. Prizes:4000|2000|Vouchers VENUE for all quizzes:NEW LECTURE HALL complex(NLH),AFMC (REG FEES:OPEN teams=...