Dosvidaniya (BCQC May Open Morning Quiz) - Results

Date: 9 May 2010

Set and Conducted by: Aniket Khasgiwale

Format:
Teams of 2 for elims. About 20 teams participated. 25 questions written elims.
Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams chosen by finalist teams as draft picks. Teams of 3 for finals.
Finals: 48 questions IR with round reversal

Results
1st: Team F - Kunal Sawardekar, Yasho Tamaskar and Subhashish Das (draft) - 125pts
2nd: Team A - Prasanna Kumar, Rahul Nayak and Anand Viswanathan (draft)- 65pts
3rd: Team B - Salil Bijur, Suvojit Chakraborty and Vikram Keskar (draft) - 65pts
4th: Team C - J. Ramanand, B.V. Harishkumar and Gurudatt Bhobe (draft) - 60pts
5th: Team D - Aditya Gadre, Suraj Menon and Sameer Deshpande (draft) - 60pts
6th: Team E - Rashmi Machado, Jaspreet Rikhraj and Bharath S (draft) - 35pts

Please leave your opinions in the comments section.

Extentia Company Quizzes - III

When: Fri, Apr 30, 2010.
Location: Extentia ITT, Rd 12, Kalyani Nagar
QM: Venkat Srinivasan

First round: BCQC set email quiz sent to all employees Monday. Rohan Nakar a regular topper got all 14.5/15 correct. 4 way tie for 2nd at 14.

Theme: General
Participants split into 4 teams of about 4 each
IR with 25 questions
21/25 questions answered by teams

Notes: Competitive quiz where all teams scored above 3 points each. Loads of applause for several questions. Several 'difficult' questions solved by all teams.

Winners: Team 1 led by Chetan Shetty, VP, Operations
Runners up: Team 3 led by Prashant Main, SEO Coordinator
Prizes: Crossword vouchers in various denominations for all winners.

Report by Venkat
Earlier Extentia quizzes here

BCQC May Open Quizzes

The BCQC presents two open quizzes in May 2010. Here are the details:

Administrivia

Date: 9th May (Sunday)

Venue: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune
(The nearest landmarks: The location is behind Domino's Pizza, near the new ICC Towers complex in which are situated shops such as Mainland China. The place is about 2 km from Pune University. This is a wikimapia map to the location.)

Contact: Phone: Suraj (98903 59065), Ramanand (97642 58560) Email: contact(at)bcqc(dot)org

'How to's: Up to two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees

Prizes

(the same for each quiz)
Prizes for each finalist, for the Best College Team, the Best School Team, and the Best Newbie Team.
Lots of audience prizes.
Prizes are co-sponsored by Landmark (Pune) and the BCQC.

Morning: 'Dasvidaniya'

Quizmaster: Aniket Khasgiwale
Timings: 10:00 am to 12:30 pm (report by 9:45 am)
Flavour: General
Finals: Top six teams in the final, next 3 teams join the finalists after draft picks

Afternoon: 'Baar Baar Deco'

Quizmaster: Suraj Menon
Timings: 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm (report by 2:15 pm)
Flavour: Audio-Visual
Finals: Top six teams in the final, next 3 teams join the finalists after draft picks

A complete list of BC Opens

Srujan 2010 - Quiz at TATA Motors

Set by : Aditya Gadre and Gaurav Singh Conducted by : Gaurav Singh

Standings

1st place: Suraj Menon and Vinay N : 85 pts

2nd place: Aniket Khasgiwale and Suvojit Chakraborty: 80 pts

3rd place: Meghashyam Shirodkar and J Ramanand : 75 pts 4th place : Salil and Venkat : 70 pts 5ht place: Kunal Sawardekar (solo) : 65 pts 6th place : PUMBA : 0 pts

The quiz started on a grim note as the MCQ pattern of the quiz was not appreciated by everyone. Further, there were some discrepencies in some questions. The audio-visual round was well appreciated. Yasho Tamaskar and Yash Marathe narrowly missed a final birth. The only non-BCQC team in the final was a team from PUMBA. The finals were well recieved. There were problems regarding uniformity of distribution of the questions. Some difficult questions were followed by relatively easier ones. Considering the audience and the setting, some of the questions were diluted to make them easier. Overall though, the competition was good, with a close call between the first five places . In the end Suraj defended his crown. Report by Gaurav Singh

Abhimanyu 2010

Nischay Mhatre, a third year student of IT at COEP, became the latest winner of Abhimanyu, COEP's intra-college solo quizzing champion. The quiz was organised by last year's winner (and only double champion so far) Aniket Khasgiwale. After a preliminary (written) round, 6 finalists were shortlisted. The finals were conducted in two parts: a common 15 question general round (again, written), followed by a Mastermind-style specialities round. Nischay's topic was The History of Computing.

The details as follows:

Winner: Nischay Mhatre - The History of Computing - 16.5 (9.5 gen + 7 in specialisation) - topic setters: Abhishek Nagaraj & Siddharth Dani
2nd: Gaurav Keskar - The Harry Potter Series of Books - 15 (3+12) - set by Meghashyam
3rd: Aadinath Harihar - The Hindi Film Music of A.R. Rahman - 14 (5+9) - set by Ramanand

Other finalists:
Mohit Karve (The Big Bang Theory TV series, set by Nikhil Kundargi), Gautam Akiwate (Free Software Movement, set by Abhishek), and Vishal Yadav (Indian Politics after Independence, set by Gaurav Sabnis).

List of winners so far
2001 - Rahul Srinivas - Asterix Comics
2002 - Sumeet Kulkarni - Formula-One
2003 - Siddharth Natarajan - Archie Comics
2005 - Akshay Palve - The Mahabharata
2006 - Gaurav Singh - The Harry Potter series
2007 - Aniket Khasgiwale - World Cup Cricket
2008 - Abhishek Nagaraj - XKCD Comics
2009 - Aniket Khasgiwale - Sherlock Holmes
2010 - Nischay Mhatre - The History of Computing

(Thanks to Suvajit for inputs on scores)

Quiztronomy 2010

Date: Saturday, 10th April.
Venue: College of Engineering, Pune.

Set by :Aadinath Harihar, Mohit Karve, Aditya Gadre, Nishchay Mhatre,Kaustubh Bhat and Gautam Akiwate

Conducred by Aadinath Harihar and Mohit Karve

Final Standings

1st : Omkar Bedarkar & Swapnil Bokade - 70 points
2nd : Anirudh Bapat & Abhsihek Oswal- 70 points
3rd : Mihir Rege & Vikram Keskar- 60 points
4th : Rohan Danait & Sanket Bhilare- 55 points
5th : Yash Sinha & Rohan Jain- 40 points
6th : Omkar Moghe & Rohan Ghige- 25 points

Best School Team: Santosh Ranawane & Prabhat Sarode
Best College Team: Suraj Dhiwar & Sanket Sen

The COEP Astronomy Club and the BCQC had organised the second edition of Quiztronomy on Saturday, 10th April. The number of teams were less in number, since most schools had their vacations going on. However, there was a good response from college teams all over Pune as well as a few junior college students.

The elims were fairly straightforward, with most of the questions being of a flavour such that even the general quizzers could get a good score. Hardly 3-4 questions were based on hard-core Astronomy. The cut-off was 12 questions on 25.

The finals was a very close affair right from the start. The finalists were of a good caliber and they managed to come up with some amazing answers. A lot of the finalists even explained the Astronomy concepts involved in the questions, which made the quiz a lot more fun. Even the Quizmasters did the same, thus making sure that they kept the audience involved. This year there were a lot more hard-core Astronomy questions as compared to last year, thus making it more of a true Astronomy quiz. There was also a final double long connect which was cracked by most of the teams and a few members of the audience as well.

Quiztronomy 2010 - Announcement

Last year, in the International Year of Astronomy, an intersection of the COEP Astronomy Club and the BCQC organised "Quiztronomy", an astronomy quiz aimed at popularising the subject among students, particularly school children. Details of the second edition of this well-received quiz are as follows:

Quiztronomy is an astronomy themed quiz- the trivia being workable by everyone and not aimed specifically at astronomy enthusiasts. After the grand success of last year's event, we would like to invite you to participate in this year’s edition of Quiztronomy . The quiz will consist of written prelims, followed by a six team final.

Prizes

• All finalists will receive prizes and certificates; Winners will also receive a trophy each

• The school/college contingent with the best performance will receive a “Best Contingent” trophy.

• This year, we will be awarding prizes worth a total of Rs.15,000/- (inclusive of vouchers)

Details:

Date	10th April, 2010 (Saturday)
Time	10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (reporting time: 10:00 a.m.)
Venue	Main Auditorium, College of Engineering, Pune – 5
Flavour	Astronomy- for everyone
Team	Two members per team; Teammates can be from different classes and cross school/ college

Registrations:

• Registrations can be done by email (quiztronomy@gmail.com) Spot registrations will also be accepted.

• Entry is free

Contact: Aadinath (aadinathharihar@gmail.com) or Mohit (lxq.ikrana@gmail.com) for additional information.

Extentia Company Quizzes - Report

Extentia is a software development firm with offices in Pune. A few months ago, the BCQC was approached to conduct quizzes at the company in a package of entertaining quizzing. The quiz was conducted by Yash Marathe on our behalf. Here's a report by Vcat:

Extentia Intra-company quiz I
Fri, Feb 5, 2010. Location: Extentia HQ, Lane E, Koregaon Pk.
QM: Yash Marathe.

First round: BCQC set email quiz sent to all employees earlier in the week to generate enthusiasm for the Friday event. Topper got all answers right.

Theme: General
Participants split into 5 teams of about 4 each
IR with 25 questions
21/25 questions answered by teams

Winners: Team 2 led by Chetan Shetty, VP, Operations
Runners up through a tie break: Team 1 led by Farah Nesargi, Project Manager

Extentia Intra-company quiz II
Fri, Mar 26, 2010. Location: Extentia ITT, Rd 12, Kalyani Nagar
QM: Yash Marathe.

First round: BCQC set email quiz sent to all employees on the previous Tuesday.

Theme: Sports
Participants split into 5 teams of about 5 each
IR with 25 questions
22/25 questions answered by teams

Winners: Team 2 led by Farah Nesargi
Runners up: Team 1 led by Chetan Shetty

If you'd like the BCQC to host similar events in your company, write to us at contact - at - bcqc - period - org or leave a comment on this post

X-Quiz-Me at MIT COE

MIT College of Engineering (MIT COE) are conducting 3 quizzes as part of their college fest Tesla. The event is called X-Quiz-Me and it has a general, sports and a Bollywood quiz.

Date: 3rd April, 2010 (Saturday)

Time:
General quiz: 9.45 am
Sports quiz: 1 pm
Bollywood quiz: 4 pm

Venue: MIT College of Engineering, Paud Rd.

Eligibility: College students only. Cross college teams allowed.
Registration: Rs. 50 per team

Contact:
Keyur: 9823081719

Prizes:
For each of the 3 quizzes:
1st prize Rs. 3000 + vouchers
2nd prize Rs. 2000 + vouchers

The Big Bang Theory (BCQC March Open Afternoon Quiz) - Results

Date: 21 Mar 2010

Set and Conducted by:: Vinay N.

Format:
Teams of 2 for elims. 30 teams participated. 30 questions written elims.
Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams chosen by finalist teams as draft picks. Teams of 3 for finals.
Finals: 1 written theme. 48 questions IR with round reversal

Results
1st: Team A - J. Ramanand, Meghashyam Shirodkar and Suraj Menon (draft) - 135pts
2nd: Team B - Anand Sivashankar, Amit Garde and Venkat Srinivasan (draft) - 95pts
3rd: Team D - Suvojit Chakraborty, Yash Marathe and Rohan Jain (draft) - 85pts
4th: Team C - Anannya Deb, S. Balakrishnan and Karan Pande (draft) - 60pts
5th: Team E - Salil Bijur, Yasho Tamaskar and Siddharth (draft) - 50pts
6th: Team F - Aditya Chandorkar, Aadinath Harihar and Jaipal (draft) - 40pts
Please leave your opinions in the comments section.

Reading Between The Lines... (BCQC March Open Morning Quiz) - Results

Date: 21 Mar 2010

Set and Conducted by: Anand Sivashankar

Format:
Teams of 2. 8 teams in finals
30 questions written elims
3 written themes (only 2 were conducted due to shortage of time) and 75-odd questions IR

Results:
1st: Team C - Anannya Deb and S. Balakrishnan - 207.5pts
2nd: Team D - Amit Garde and Meghashyam Shirodkar - 157.5pts
3rd: Team E - J. Ramanand and Suraj Menon - 120pts
4th: Team G - Rashmi Machado and Bharat - 77.5pts
5th: Team A - Shaibal Chakravarty and Ritwik - 47.5pts
6th: Team F - Salil Bijur and Sameer Deshpande - 42.5pts
7th: Team H - Yash Marathe and Vinay N. - 30pts
8th: Team B - Saransh Verma and Avanindra Bhargav - 25pts

QM's notes:
A turnout of 17 teams for the 30 question elims with 8 teams on stage meant that most participants had a fair chance of qualifying. Most of the questions were answered with facile ease and since the purpose was to broaden mass coverage and encourage working out, that lofty objective was achieved albeit with some mild-mannered carping from the regulars on the wildly populist nature of some answers.

The teams did very well using the clues provided with Amit & Meghashyam topping with a stratospheric 26 followed by an equally impressive 24 from Ramanand & Suraj. With the cut-off falling to 13, Niranjan & Vikram must have missed out on the sudden death rule though garnering the Best College team prize.

Beginning with a vanilla opening round on Opening Lines, most teams did get into their groove gradually. Till about half-way into the 37q first round, most newcomers had more than held their own with some fine inferences and educated guesses. Amidst all this, the eventual winners, Bala & Anannya had kept lapping up a fair share of great answers aided by a fairly high Lit Quotient. A Statistically-Improbable-Phrases round again saw some newcomers upstage other veterans although not altering position status overmuch! Amit & Meghashyam got in some crackers and for some time, I was lured into thinking that they'd caught up. The second round was protractedly long and overwhelming for some teams and the performance levels dipped markedly again signalling an inordinately stretched final. Ramamand & Suraj did well too to claim third, and Bharath & Rashmi could not really make it count in the anti-clockwise round slipping to fourth though not without some neat gets earlier.

And so it goes.. While the endeavour (Morse?) was to cover geographies and genres, a lot of mentionables didn't find their way. Two framing glitches and some which could have been articulated better as questions too! The audience was conspicuously silent for most of the quiz and some members of the audience told me that the level was pegged unattainably high. Point taken!

Please leave your opinions in the comments section.

Prahelika 2010

Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT) is conducting its annual tech extravaganza Impetus and Concepts from 23rd to 28th March. Prahelika The Quiz will be one of the events.

Date: 25th March, 2010 (Thursday)

Time: Elims start at 11. Please report by 10:45 am so that you may be directed to the proper venue for elims. Elims will be a written round of 30-40 minutes duration. Finals will start approximately at 1:30 pm. Approximate duration of the quiz is 2 hours.

Venue: Pune Institute of Computer Technology, near Bharti Vidyapeeth campus

Eligibility: College students with valid id. Teams of one or two.
Flavor: General

Registration: You can register at the desk set up in your college or on the spot. In case you're registering on the spot, please be there half an hour prior to the event for logistical reasons.

Contact:
Event Heads: Akshay Baheti - 9975130348 and Pratik Sikchi - 9422958833
Quizmaster: Yash Sinha - 9970137651

Excelsior 2k10 - Results

These are results for the General Quiz called 'Quiz-O-Mania'

Date: 13 Mar 2010

Conducted by:: Jayraj Bajaj and Sameer Jagdale

Results
1st: Team E - Meghashyam Shirodkar and Amit Garde - 125pts
2nd: Team B - Suraj Menon and Suvajit Chakraborty - 110pts
3rd: Team A - Salil Bijur and Yasho Tamaskar - 100pts
4th: Team D - Nikhil Motlag and Tejas Kulkarni - 40pts
5th: Team C - Venkat Srinavasan and Rohan Jain - 20pts

Format:
25 questions elims on slides
40 questions Finals: 10 clockwise IR, 10 anti-clockwise IR, 10 clockwise IR with negatives, 10 anti-clockwise with double or negative

BCQC March Open Quizzes

The BCQC begins its 2010 season with a set of two open quizzes this month. Here are the details:

Administrivia

Date: 21st March (Sunday)

Venue: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune
(The nearest landmarks: The location is behind Domino's Pizza, near the new ICC Towers complex in which are situated shops such as Mainland China. The place is about 2 km from Pune University. This is a wikimapia map to the location.)

Contact: Phone: Suraj (98903 59065), Ramanand (97642 58560) Email: contact(at)bcqc(dot)org

'How to's: Up to two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees

Prizes

(the same for each quiz)
Prizes for each finalist, for the Best College Team, the Best School Team, and the Best Newbie Team.
Lots of audience prizes.
Prizes are co-sponsored by Landmark (Pune) and the BCQC.

Morning: 'Reading between the lines...'

(a Literature Quiz)

Quizmaster: Anand Sivashankar
Timings: 10:00 am to 12:30 pm (report by 9:45 am)
Flavour: Literature
Finals: Eight teams in the final

Afternoon: 'The Big Bang Theory'

Quizmaster: Vinay N.
Timings: 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm (report by 2:15 pm)
Flavour: General
Finals: Top six teams in the final, next 3 teams join the finalists after draft picks

A complete list of BC Opens

Quizzes at Excelsior 2k10

Students of Sinhgad College of Engineering are organising a national technical event Excelsior 2k10 from 11th to 13th March and have 2 quizzes as a part of the fest.

Eligibility:Open for all

Adroit - Technical quiz

Elims: 11th March 11am to 11.30am
Finals: 12th March 11am to 1pm
Format: Teams of 2 members. 4 teams in finals

Flavour: This quiz is primarily on 4 topics: bridges, tower crains, natural calamities and global warming

Cash prizes: 1st: 30,000/- 2nd: Rs. 20,000/-

Quizmasters: Ravindra Aile and Anurav Jain (9960712083)

Quiz-O-Mania - General quiz

Not to be confused with VIT's annual open quiz

Date: 13th March
Time: 11.00 am to 3.00 pm. Eliminations followed by finals. On the spot registration is also available.
Format: Teams of 2 members. 6 teams in finals

Flavour: General

Cash prizes: 1st: 9,000/- 2nd: Rs. 3,000/-

Quizmasters: Jayraj Bajaj (9860602727) and Sameer (9923072228)

AIT General Quiz

A general quiz is being organized on 13th March (Saturday) at the Army Institute of Technology, Dighi Hills, Alandi Road, Pune.

Registration: Rs 60 for a team of two. On spot registrations available on confirmation by sms or email.
Directions to get to AIT: Catch a direct bus to Alandi from Pune railway station or Mahanagar Palika or from anywhere. It drops you directly in front of the college gate.
Eligibility: This is a college students only quiz. Intercollege teams allowed.
Prizes: 4000 for the first, 2000 for the second and for third its 1000. These may increase in the future but surely wont decrease.
Timing: 10-30 a.m. onwards
Contact: Prashant Tomar (9823694984) and Ayush Agarwal (9823438132)

Shyam Bhatt Memorial Quiz 2010

Date: 16 Feb 2010

Set & Conducted by:: Hitesh Mahato (Elims) and Lt. Col. Nikhil Moorchung (Finals)

Results
1st: Team C - Meghashyam Shirodkar and Salil Bijur - 130pts
2nd: Team F - Venkat Srinavasan and Rohan Jain - 90pts
3rd: Team E - Suvajit Chakraborty and Yash Marathe - 85pts
Joint 4th: Team A - Abhinav Raina and Salil Jena (AFMC) - 80pts
Joint 4th: Team B - Abhishek and Krishna (AFMC) - 80pts
6th: Team D - Abhilash and Anirudh (Kasturba Medical College, Manipal)

Format: 25 questions elims on slides; 60 questions Finals (IR with round reversal after 30)

Report
The quiz began on time with an alumnus of AFMC paying a small tribute to his batchmate Shyam Bhatt whom the annual quiz is named after. Elims were set and conducted completely by students while the finals were by an AFMC faculty member Lt. Col. Moorchung. Questions were nice although the finals seemed to be on the easier side with many chestnuts.

Most teams were neck-to-neck half way through. After the round reversal, Team C surged ahead above others. Towards the end, Team F (Venkat and Rohan) made a stunning comeback from 5th place to 2nd cracking all 4 questions that came their way. The 2 AFMC teams A and B were found to be tied at 3rd place at 80 points. Just before the tie-breaker, it was found that the last finals question was yet to be asked. Team F had answered the last one, so it was a direct for Team E which cracked it and joined A and B at 80 points. A close tie-breaker round of 3 questions happened and Team E won ending at 3rd place.

Please comment for any corrections and opinions below.

Axlerate - Open Quiz at MIT, Pune

Axelerate - a general quiz is to be held on the 20th of Feb at Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune.

Team of 2
Registration on the spot will be available
Time: 11.00 am


1st Prize Rs 10,000.
2nd Prize Rs 6,000.
3rd Prize Rs 4,000.


Quizmasters:
Rohan Jain - +91 98811 60507
Bharat Marathe - +91 98608 22888

Landmark Quiz Pune 2010 - Report

Date: 30 Jan, 2010
Venue: Nehru Memorial Hall, Pune
Conducted by: Dr. Navin Jayakumar
Turnout: ~280 teams

Results
1st: Travelling Pillsburies (Rajiv Rai, Sumant Srivathsan, Vibhendu Tiwari) 62 pts
2nd: QED (Samanth Subramanian, G. Swaminathan, Ramana) 58 pts
3rd: 3 Paajis in a Shaniwar Wada Pav (Meghashyam Shirodkar, Amit Garde, Anand Sivashankar) 50 pts
4th: Inglorious Kaminey (Rajen Prabhu, Gopal Kidao, Ravi Mundoli) 40 pts
5th: 3 Mistakes of our parents' lives (Pradeep Ramarathnam, Vikram Joshi, Mukund) 33 pts
6th: No Enthu Da (Aadisht Khanna, Aishwarya, Aswath) 25 pts
7th: Grouchy Marxists (Deviprasad Viswanathan, TK Balaji, Vikram Rajan) 19 pts
8th: GDS System of Measurement (Govind Grewal, Dhananjay Shettigar, Sauvik) 15 pts

Best Corporate Team: ZS Associates
Best College Team: SCMHRD
Best School Teams: 1st: Army Public School; 2nd: Abhinava Vidyalaya

Format:
40 Question Prelims
Cutoff was 26 with some stars
Finals - Two rounds of IR - 15 each. 10 points for each question.
9 Questions on the buzzer which revealed part of a larger image(the theme) on screen. Points ranged from +20 to +4 for cracking the theme.
One more buzzer round at the end.

Please leave opinions, corrections and names that have been missed out in the comments

Quiz-O-Mania 2010 - Report

Date: 30 Jan, 2010
Venue: Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune
Conducted by: Salil Bijur
Turnout: ~75 teams

Format : 32 questions written elims followed by 42 questions on seamless IR.

Results:
Joint 1st: Suraj Menon and Yash Marathe : 80 pts
Joint 1st: Priyambad Pattanayak and Krishnamurti Ganesh : 80 pts
Joint 3rd: Annanya Deb and Suresh Ramasubramanian : 60 pts
Joint 3rd: Meghashyam Shirodkar and Anand Sivashankar: 60 pts
5th: Pradeep Ramarathnam and Vikram Joshi: 40 pts
6th : Srinath and Roshith: 20 pts

Leave your opinions in the comments section.