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Announcement - Next BC Quizzes The Boat Club Quiz Club is organising two quizzes on Sunday, 10th Feb 2008. Entry is free. Venue: Dewang Mehta auditorium, Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune-16 (see this link for directions ) Details: Quiz 1: "Grindhouse" - Open Sports Quiz Time: 9.30 am to 12.30 pm; reporting at 9.15 am Teams of 2, 6 teams in the final. QMs: Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgiwale No prior registration. Certificates and prizes for all finalists, as well as audience prizes. Quiz 2: "Aleatory" - Open General Quiz BCQC February Open General Quiz 2008 Time: 2 pm to 6 pm, reporting at 1:30 pm Teams of 2, 6 teams in the final. QMs: Anupam Akolkar and Salil Bijur 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 Contact: Email: contact (at) bcqc (dot) org Keep visi...

ACES 2007 School Quiz Date: 4 Nov, 2007 Venue : Tilak Smarak Mandir Organised by: Abhinava Vidyalaya, Pune and BCQC Set by: BC quizzers, primarily Abhishek Nagaraj, Aditya Gadre, Salil Bijur, Shamanth Rao, and J. Ramanand, Conducted by: Ramanand Quiz Final Results (40 IR questions + 1 theme + rapidfire) 1st: Abhinava Vidyalaya (F): 125 2nd: Kalmadi Shamrao (B): 110 3rd: SPM English (C): 75 Jt. 4th: Bal Shikshan Mandir (D): 50 Jt. 4th: Symbiosis Secondary (E): 50 6th: Modern (A): 15 (sadly, I left the paper with the names of finalists behind - if someone knows, please put in comments) Report * The 3rd ACES quiz was also the second time the BC was involved. The flavour of the quiz was sports + general * Kalmadi Shamrao and Abhinava also had the best contingents, with about 6 teams from these schools missing out because of the only-one-team-per-school-in-finals rule. Perhaps a end of season Derby between these two teams should be held! They are clearly the two bes...

The BCQC Landmark Comics Quiz Report (18 Nov) The quiz was successfully held on Saturday for an audience of about 40-50 people. These consisted of ages from about 10 years to vannila-flavoured adults, housewives to students to dentists to one size fits all software types. The quiz was conducted by Sudarshan and myself, with other BC members chipping in from time to time. The questions (about 150 of them) were set by BC comic enthusiasts, ranging from Indian comics, Western superheroes, Graphic Novels, Disneylanders, Franco-Belgian comics and so on. Comic-phile Shubhashis won the title of "Starocomix" in a 3 person playoff, triumphing over some worthy contenders, which included a couple of very good schoolkids. Thanks to all who came, all the BC members who provided questions, and those that were able to help out during the two hour event. If you have any feedback, please leave them in the comments. I personally enjoyed this style of 'walk-in-the-park' quizzi...

Whodunits - BCQC November Open Quizmaster: J. Ramanand Date: 4th November Format : Written elims. Top 6 teams go through. Next 6 teams play a playoff. Top 3 teams get chosen, and each of these 6 people are randomly assigned to a team which has already qualified. Results: (Team names assigned by QM, after innovative murder devices) 1st place : 85 Conch Shells (Niranjan, Harish, Vishal) 2nd place : 65 Armadillos (Anupam, Akhil, Rachana) 3rd place : 55 Bonsai (Meghshyam, Samrat, Anand) 4th place : Designer Jeans (Aditya Gadre, Salil Bijur, Vikas) 5th place : Exploding Cows (Abhishek, Meghana, Amit) 6th place : Godfathers (Gaurav Singh, Yasho Tamaskar, Venkat) Notes: The day started off with a few innovations in the elims itself. Like CAT 2005, this elims introduced "differential" marking for the first time. Elims sheets were separate from the answer sheet, an innovation which enabled participants to keep the elims sheet and facilitated quicker(and...

"Whodunits" - BCQC November Open 2007 The BC Quiz Club will be organising an Open General quiz on Sunday, the 4th of November, 2007. The details: "Whodunits" Date: Sunday, 4th Nov Venue: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems Ltd. (see this link for directions ) Time: Prelims start at 1 pm sharp, so please report by 12:45 pm Flavour: General Who can participate: anyone; it's an Open quiz; Entry is free Format: Prelims + Playoffs + Finals for 6 teams Team Size: 2 per team Details of the format will be published at this link Conducted by: J. Ramanand Prizes sponsored by Landmark, Pune Contact: email: contact@bcqc.org phone: Ramanand (97642 58560), Harish (93733 04910), Salil (98231 12258)

BarQing Mad!! (the Open MELA Quiz at Mindspark 2007) - Report Date: 7 October, 2007 Venue : College of Engineering, Pune Set by: Aditya Gadre, Aniket Khasgiwale and Yasho Tamaskar Conducted by: Yasho Tamaskar Theme: Movies, Music, Entertainment, Literature, Arts Quiz Final Results (4 rounds of IR + 1 speciality round + 1 long connect) cutoff : 17.5/30 1st: Sayak Dasgupta and Suvajit Chakraborty (E) 2nd: Meghashyam Shirodkar and Prasann Potdar (F) 3rd: Sumant Srivathsan and Ravi Venkatesh (D) 4th: Samrat Sengupta and Salil Bijur (C) 5th: Amit Varma and Rishi Iyengar (B) 6th: Nandan Gokhale and Mrinmayi Katdare (A) Notes An entertainment quiz generally ends up being biased to the tastes of the QMs in music and movies. The quiz setters here made an effort to include questions on generally ignored topics such as Indian literature. The trend however was seemed to be toward cinema - Hollywood and Indian. Sayak and Suvajit generally do very well at ent quizzes a...

Chakravyuh (Open Quiz at Mindspark 2007) - Report Date: 6 October, 2007 Venue : College of Engineering, Pune Open Quiz - "Chakravyuh" Elims set by: Abhishek Nagaraj Finals set by: Abhishek Nagaraj, Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgiwale Finals conducted by: Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgiwale Theme: General Quiz Final Results (~60 seamless IR with round reversal) cutoff : 25.5/35 1st: Avinash Mudaliar and Harikrishnan Menon (A) 115 2nd: Meghashyam Shirodkar and Samrat Sengupta (F) 110 3rd: Uddata Baruah and S. Balakrishnan (D) 85 4th: Sumant Srivathsan and Ravi Venkatesh (B) 80 5th: Salil Bijur and Maitreyi Gupta (C) 65 6th: A.P. Alagarsamy and Prasann Potdar (E) 60 Notes Chakravyuh 2007, the annual COEP quiz had already happened in April . This year, COEP organised "Mindspark", a technical fest with contributions from all departments, meant to be an annual event. The general open quiz, for the sake of legacy and permanency, was ca...