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BCQC January Open Quizzing Supported by Landmark We kick off 2007 with an early bout of serious quizzing, this time with a College quiz and the other regular features. Here are the details: Common Details Date and Time : 7 January 2007, Sunday Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, "Bhageerath", Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune (nearest landmarks: the building is behind Domino's Pizza; this is the same road as the main Symbiosis college, ICC Trade Towers; ~5 kms from Pune railway station; 2 kms from Pune University Circle) Contact for info : 98810 00957 (Shamanth), 93244 45248 (Ramanand), contact-at-bcqc-dot-org Fees : none - just show up and you can take part. Registration : on the spot. Prizes : courtesy Landmark, Pune . Quiz 1: Open quiz for College Students : Organised by: Akhil and Apurva Flavour: General Team Size: Upto three per team Restrictions: none; unlimited number of teams per college, mixed teams allowed Reportin...

KQA's "Go Ogle" online quiz (Message from KQA's Arul Mani) The KQA will hold Go Ogle, its annual online quiz on 1st January 2007. The quiz is set by Arul Mani.The rules are given below. Rules: Open to all solo contestants, irrespective of age or location. Prior registration is required. Please email us (kqaquizzes at gmail.com) your name, age, address and other contact details by 30th December 2006. The quiz will be posted at our blog http://community. livejournal. com/kqaquizzes The quiz will be available for access from 1700hrs IST on 1st Jan and will be taken off at 2100hrs IST. Participants will attempt the quiz at the blog. Those who do not have a livejournal account may post reponses anonymously. Such entrants must however leave their name (and email i.d used while registering) at the bottom of the entry. Unsigned anonymous entries will not be considered. No participant is allowed more than one attempt at the quiz. Attempts at skulduggery will re...

The Mod Mod Infinite Rebounds Ages ago, I'd written a post on Infinite Rebounds as part of a series discussing scoring formats in quizzes. That post has a couple of errors which came to notice in time, and is slightly obsolete now. This current post aims to correct those errors and record the current set of conventions that are followed in IR (at least in the BC circles). This post is also partly aimed at perhaps reaching a consensus on how we should run this method here - it is after all the most popular form of conducting a quiz in these parts - so as to avoid the usual raised eyebrows just before the finals of a quiz begin when the quizmaster announces his nth variation. Infinite Rebounds a.k.a. Infinite Bounds (IR) is one of the algorithms to answer the timeless quizzing question of "who gets the next question?". One answer is in these commonly agreed conventions is IR: (Some terms and abbreviations: * Q{n-1} : the previous question which has been completed...

November 2006 BC Regular Open Quiz - QM's (Samrat's) views A tightly contested quiz, decided on the last few questions. I was surprised seeing that only 3 out of 60 Qs were left unanswered. Though I believe in setting workable and not too difficult questions, but this was a superb performance by the teams by any standards. Hats off to the quality of the teams. Plus it helped that there were 3 member teams. It definitely improves the chances of getting the answers right. Anand and Vibhendu were somewhat disadvantaged by losing their partner in the middle. It didn't strike me at that time, or we could have arranged a replacement from the 10th-11th team in qualifying, as those guys missed out by only 1 point and they were also newcomers to BCQC. The differential point system was not appreciated by the teams in general. My rationale for having it was that it is not possible to set questions of equal difficulty level. And in quizzes I have seen people crib that the other tea...

Appy Fizz - Champions of the World quiz by ESPN Star Sports Preliminary Round - Mumbai Date: 7th Dec. 2006 Venue: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai. Results: 1st - Symbiosis Law (Suvajit Chakravarti + 1(pls to put hand up)) 2nd: Aniket Khasgiwale and Abhishek Nagaraj (in supporting role) 3rd: NMIMS, Mumbai. The thing that peeved/flabbergasted me most about this quiz was the fact that ESPN Star (and the whole wonderful troupe that comes along) had decided to conduct a nation-wide college only (under-25) quiz on the extremely narrow theme of 'World Cup Cricket'. Now, the rights for the WC, as everyone knows, are not with ESPN-Star and the timing of this event could be only to co-incide with West Indies 07. Anyway, after the journey to Mumbai, we turned up at the venue to find a surprisingly low number of teams who had turned up (about 25). Considering that we had come to know about it only the day before, it appears that the standard publicity machinery had not been expl...

November 2006 BC Regular Open Quiz - Report Date: 3 Dec, 2006 (Sunday) Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Set and Conducted by: Samrat Sengupta Quiz Final Results (60 questions) 1st: Shamanth Rao, Kunal Sawardekar, Meghashyam Shirodkar (E): 62 2nd: Rishi Iyengar, Sumant Srivathsan, B.V.Harishkumar (A): 56 3rd: Amit Varma, Ravi Venkatesh, Kunal Thakar (B): 50 4th: Anand Sivashankar, Vibhendu Tiwari, Siddharth Natarajan (F): 41 5th: J. Ramanand, Abhishek Nagaraj, Salil Bijur (C): 35 6th: Shivaji Marella, Ganesh Hegde, D. Dharmendra (D): 25 (3 out of 60 questions went unanswered) Quiz Elim Results (out of 32 questions) First 6 Teams cutoff: 14.5 (in order) Shamanth-Kunal S (20.5), Rishi-Sumant (20), Ramanand-Abhishek (19.5), Anand-Vibhendu(17.5), Amit-Ravi (16.5), Shivaji-Ganesh (14.5) next 3 cutoff: 13.5 (in order) Meghashyam-Siddharth N (14), Harish-Salil (13.5), Dharmendra-Kunal T (13.5), (just missed out: Biju + Chandan, Akhil + Apurva, both 12.5) BC Them...

November 2006 BC Open Schools Quiz - Report Date: 3 Dec, 2006 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Schools Quiz Set and Conducted by: Shamanth Rao Quiz Final Results (42 questions) 1st: Ruchik, Shantanu, Siddharth - Muktangan Eng. School. - 75.5 Joint 2nd: Aadim, Sarvesh, Omkar - SPM - 75 Joint 2nd: Samrat, Satyajit, Mayuresh - Muktangan Eng. School - 75 Other Finalists: SPM English, SPM English, Abhinava Quiz Elims Results Cutoff: 20/30 (Further details to be updated later) Report * The quiz was attended by about 17 teams (about 50 kids). The number was a little lower than expected (especially in comparison to the workshops) given the lack of restrictions, but this can be attributed to it being a Sunday and not being an event pushed too much by schools who would issue fatwas for more competitive events. However, about half the teams were appearing in a BC quiz for the first time and as some of the top teams from the previous school quiz were not there (mostly T...