June 2012 BCQC Opens - General & Sports

June 2012 BCQC Opens - General  & Sports

Two Open quizzes by the BCQC on Sunday (10 June), a general quiz followed by a Sports Quiz. Here are the details:
 

Date: 10 June (Sunday)

Venue

Seminar Hall II, College of Engineering, Pune

Quiz 1: "kthnxbai"

Quizmaster: Suraj Menon
Flavour: General
Format:  Prelims and then finals format; two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees
Timings 10:30 am to 1.30  (report by 10.15 am)

Quiz 2: "BC Cup"

Quizmasters:Aniket Khasgiwale, Aditya Gadre & Yash Marathe
Flavour: Sports
Format: Prelims, followed by quarterfinals, semifinals & finals; individual; prior registration required; no entry fees.
Timings 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm (report by 2.15 pm)

How to get to the venueThe 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.
For BC cup prizes to all quarterfinalists, semifinalists & finalists
The BCQC is on Facebook and Twitter as well.
some questions from previous BC Opens are now available at the BCQC Questions Blog.

Mahaquizzer 2012 - Pune details

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 venue costs.

The setters are: Mitesh Agarwal, Urmila Lakshmanan, Vivek Kartikeyan, Rajagopal P.S., and Rahul Kottalgi.

Prizes will be awarded in each city for the best performances from School, College, Lady and Open entrants. In addition, the all-India winner will receive the Wing Commander GR Mulky Memorial Trophy for Quizzing Excellence at the three-day KQA Anniversary Celebrations in June (29, 30 June and 1 July). We will also put up a list of the top 100 scores in India.

It is always a good idea to register well in advance. This will allow us to make adequate arrangements for seating and for question-papers.

Please use the form provided here to register: http://kqaquizzes.org/mahaquizzer/

A list of those who have registered will go up at http://kqaquizzes.org/mahaquizzer-registrations/

This list is to be taken as confirmation of your registration. Online registrations close on Tuesday, 22 May 2012.

All previous editions of MahaQuizzer can be downloaded, with answers, from
http://kqaquizzes.org/quizzes/

BCQC April 2012 Open Quiz - Results

Date: 22 April 2012

Quiz was set by Raghav Chakravathy & Sachin Ravi.
      Conducted By Raghav Chakravarthy
 Prizes were sponsored by Landmark and BCQC.

Following are the results

TEAM NAME	TEAM MEMBERS	SCORE
TEAM D	Suraj Menon Avaneendra Bhargav Kunal Sawardekar ( DP)	135
TEAM E	Saikat Sarkar Kshitij Jyoti Samrat Senagupta (DP)	85
TEAM A	Nikhil Motlag Venkat Srinivasan Keyur Munot (DP)	80
TEAM B	CVR Shastry Aniketh Rallbhandi Anurag Danda (DP)	75
TEAM E	Vibhav Bhave Rohan Danait Abhijit K Anil (DP)	70
TEAM C	Rohan Jain Ranajeet Soman Souvik (DP)	35

Please leave your opinions in the comments section.

BCQC April Open Written Quiz

Written Quiz by Suraj Menon. ( 42 questions )
             
Following are the results 

Team Members	Score
Kunal Sawardekar & Avaneendra Bhargav	27
Samrat Sengupta & Omkar Dhakephalkar	22.5
Ranajeet Soman & Rohan Jain	19.5
Rohan Danait & Vibhav Bhave	15.5
CVR Shastry & Aniketh Rallbhandi	15.5
Kshijit Jyoti & Saikat Sarkar	15
Anurag Danda & Abhijit K Anil	13
Nikhil Motlag	10
Gaurav Keskar	09
Debajyoti Adhikari & Prajwal Likhar	09
Alok Kulkarni & Siddharth Jadhav	8.5
Abhinav S Vadapalli & Saikat Ghosh	8

                

TATA Motors Srujan General Quiz Report

( 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.

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.

Norway Open Quiz - Pune results

(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

The BCQC March 2012 Open Quiz - Results

Date: 24 Mar 2012

Set and Conducted by: Kunal Sawardekar

Format:
Teams of 2 for elims. 25 teams participated. 25 questions written elims.
Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams joint finalist teams. Teams of 3 for finals.
Finals: 19 questions on Infinite Bounce clockwise, 5-image Meme Theme written round, 20 questions on Infinite Bounce anti-clockwise; In the IB rounds, teams were allowed to 'pounce' upto 4 times in the entire quiz.

Results
1st: Team B - Anand Sivasankar, Vikram Joshi and Vikram Keskar (draft) - 195pts
2nd: Team F - Suraj Menon, Saibal Das Mahapatra and Sameer Deshpande (draft)- 75pts
3rd: Team C - Debanjan Bose, Hari Nair and Farhaz Iqbal (draft) - 70pts
Joint 4th: Team D - J. Krishnamurthy, Maitreyi Gupta and Rohan Jain(draft) - 65pts
Joint 4th: Team E - Samrat Sengupta, Aditya Gadre and Hitesh Mahato (draft) - 65pts
5th: Team A - Salil Bijur, Avaneendra Bhargav and Arnold D'Souza(draft) - 55pts

Best College Team: Ranajeet Soman and Rohan Jain
Best Newbie Team: Sanchida and Ramesh

Prizes sponsored by Landmark and BCQC

Elims cutoff: 8

Please leave your opinions in the comments section.

The BCQC March 2012 Open

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 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.

[College] Dr. D.Y.Patil College of Engg, Akurdi - General Quiz

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

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From Ranajeet Soman on the FB group

Landmark Quiz, Pune, 2012 - results

(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 FB page)

Call of the wild

The BCQC had its origins in the early 90s, when a group of COEP students began quizzing at the Boat Club of COEP every Saturday.

It was meant to be an informal way to indulge in a pursuit that very few take to, like Jesus fish to water (or Dharmendra to whiskey). Somehow, each year, there were just about enough people to keep it going, and along the way, the caravan only became larger (hello Monica!).

Spurred by that, the motley group picked up a confusing acronymic-name, grew beyond COEP to a pan-Puneri nature, and picked up a unique and authentic character of its own.

All this was made possible by a large group of quizzers who gave their time, interest, effort, and their eccentricities in order to help the BCQC sustain these 2+ decades. All without expecting anything in return, except to ensure there was always a platform for those who wanted to quiz. For all its warts, moles, and freckles, this has been a reasonable success.

Each year, old BC quizzers leave: some graduate (finally! and usually with distinction), some escape torturous jobs to find new roles (like with the Spanish inquisition), and some simply have had enough of long visual connects. Like in any ecosystem, the BCQC also needs fresh legs, fresh ideas, and fresh meat to move ahead.

Old BC fossils will have noticed the relative lack of regular BC activity in recent times. This post is a call at large for people who can help change that.

We're looking for people (especially student quizzers) who can take on the following roles for the BC:

1. Be Quizzing impresarios: schedule open quizzes regularly, get the venues booked, arrange for prizes, do basic publicity

2. BC Session coordinators: schedule BC sessions

3. Take the anti out of our social media: update our blog/FB/email group/twitter with announcements & reports of quizzes

All of these activities demand almost no strenuous activity, only loads of quizzing enthusiasm. The returns are likely to be a warm & fuzzy glow in your heart before you go to sleep each night, proximity to some of the most devious minds in the city, and perhaps, if you're that cold-hearted, a line or three in your CV to impress an FMCG recruiter or two hundred (they move fast).

And best of all, you'll have the satisfaction of contributing to a remarkable group and keeping it going into its 3rd decade.

Interested? Write in to Suraj Menon/Avaneendra Bhargav/me/leave a comment. We'll help you with getting started.

Thanks.

[Appendix]
A History of the BCQC, according to many historians.

And with apologies to Suraj, Lord Kitchener.