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When : Fri, September 24, 2010 at Extentia ITT, Kalyani Nagar QM : Prakash Kamath. Quiz set by Suraj Menon/BCQC Theme : General Email Quiz: As always a 'warm up' email quiz was sent to Extentians earlier in the week. Winners determined by # of correct answers and timestamp on email. Answers and winner : (Vcat) announced ahead of Fri afternoon's quiz. He won 'cos he got Mehrauli for the exact location of the Iron Pillar [Q: Where is this (pic) located?] Finals: * Good turnout at ITT. A full house for this Extentia location. * IR with participants split into four teams as always. * Team 1 started to lead from the 4th question. Competitive quiz where all teams scored over 30 points each. * Most questions were worked out and answered by teams * Teams were given a minute for each direct - to read long questions and work out answers. An actual stopwatch was used. * Cordial atmosphere despite intensity of competition. No fights between teams and with the Q...

Set by Gaurav Keskar, Aadinath Harihar, Mohit Karve with inputs from Amit Patil and Gaurav Mehta Questions reviewed and moderated by Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgiwale Theme : General Date/Venue : 10th October 2010, College of Engineering, Pune: Format : 35 Question Elims, 54 Question Finals (29 IR + 6 Written + 19 IR Rev) Results : 1st Place: J Ramanand and B V Harish Kumar (Team E) [Elims: 20 (4*) || Finals: 120] 2nd Place*: Anand Sivasankar and Prasanna Potdar (Team C) [Elims: 25 (2*) ||Finals: 90] 3rd Place: Meghashyam Shirodkar and Amit Garde (Team F) [Elims: 26 (2*) || Finals: 90] 4th Place: Mayur Srinivasan and Abhishek Padmanabhan (Team D)- IIT Bombay [Elims: 22 (4*) || Finals: 70] 5th Place: Ganesh Hegde and Shivaji Marella (Team A) [Elims: 25 (6*) || Finals: 50] 6th Place: Suraj Menon and Yashovardhan Tamaskar (Team B) [Elims: 23 (4*) || Finals: 50] (*2nd place decided on Elims scores) Best College Team (outside the finalists): Akhil Srivatsan and Mukund Ver...

Set by Himanshu Panandikar, Mohit Karve with inputs from Aadinath Harihar Questions reviewed and moderated by Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgiwale Theme : Automobiles Date/Venue : 10th October 2010, College of Engineering, Pune: Format : 30 Question Elims, 42 Question Finals Results : 1st Place: Suraj Menon and Yashovardhan Tamaskar (Team E) [Elims: 19 (4*) || Finals: 85] 2nd Place: Kunal Sawardekar (Team D) [Elims: 20 (4*) || Finals: 70] 3rd Place*: Chinmay Pande and Gautam Unni (Team C) (Elims: 17.5 (4*) || Finals: 60] 4th Place: Chaitanya Pise and Ninad Alurkar (Team B) [Elims: 16.5 (4*) || Finals: 60] 5th Place: Vinay N and Yash Marathe (Team F) [Elims: 20 (4*) || Finals: 30] 6th Place: Jaipal Dhupar and Saransh Verma (Team A) [Elims: 17.5 (4*) || Finals: 30] *3rd place decided on Elims scores Best College Team (outside the finalists) : Bharat Marathe and Aditya Ramachandran (MIT) Please provide comments if you attended the quiz. Report by Aadinath Harihar

Set by Mohit Karve, Mihir Khatwani with inputs from Gaurav Keskar, Himanshu Panandikar, Amit Patil and Aadinath Harihar Questions reviewed and moderated by Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgiwale Theme : Science and Technology Date/Venue : 8th October 2010, College of Engineering, Pune: Results : 1st Place*: Sachin Ravi and Raghav NC (Symbiosis Law School) (Elims: 18 || Finals: 105) 2nd Place: Nikhil Motlag and Avaneendra Bhargav (Elims: 16 || Finals: 105) 3rd Place: Jaypal Dhupar and Saransh Verma (Elims: 22 || Finals: 80) *1st place decided on Elims scores after Tie Breaker also ended in a tie Unlike previous years, Torquest was an open quiz this time making it extremely competitive. The number of teams participating in a "SciTech" quiz was also high this year. The elims started with excellent set of 30 questions, spreading across various domains of Science and Technology. It had a perfect mix of questions for a regular as well as a non-regular quizzer. The final...

MindSpark is the annual Technical Festival of the College of Engineering, Pune. This year MindSpark will play host to 4 quizzes from 8th- 10th October 2010. Specifics Below .  For any additional clarifications. visit  http://mind-spark.org/ eureka.php . 1.  Chakravyuh - the Open General Quiz Sponsors: Atlas Copco   Saturday, 9th October 2010 Timing: 11:00 am to 4:30 pm. Venue: The Auditorium, College of Engineering, Pune Weblink:   http://mind-spark. org/events/chakravyuh.php Chakravyuh has been one of Pune's best known open quizzes for many years now. A general quiz that is literally based on anything and everything under the sun, the participants of this quiz can range from college students to software professionals. Chakravyuh has gone on to produce quizzers who would later perform exceptionally well at national level quizzes. Previous years have elicited fantastic participation and the prize money remains as sweet as ever. Status: Open Quiz (An...

Extentia Company Quiz VI - Fri, August 27, 2010 at Extentia KP QMs: Mukul Vyas and Soumava Chatterjee. Quiz set by Suraj Menon/BCQC Theme: General Email quiz sent to Extentians earlier in the week. Answers and winners announced ahead of Fri's quiz. Winners determined by # of correct answers and timestamp of email. About 20 Extentians in all - the now familiar in-company quiz folks. IR with participants split into four teams as always. Team 1 established an early lead that it held through the quiz Tie for 2nd between teams 3 and 4. Tiebreaker won by Team 4 Interesting, workable questions, and most were answered by teams. QMs had a good sense of humor and helmed the quiz well Minor fight between team 3,4 and a QM at tiebreak Demands for Vcat to be excluded from next event (or distribute prizes first and then have the quiz!) Winners: Team 1 (Melanie, Rahul D, Vcat......) Runners Up: Team 4 (Farah, Jaya, Surbhi, Louis...)

Extentia Quiz V - Fri, July 30 at Extentia ITT QMs:Rohan Ambasta and Vishnuprasad Verma. Quiz set by Suraj Menon/BCQC Theme: General Email quiz sent to Extentians earlier in the week. Answers and winners announced ahead of Fri's quiz. * Well attended quiz with participation that increased after the first few questions. * Participants split into four teams. * Clear early lead established by Team III. Several last second correct answers by teams. * Accusations of (un)fairplay traded between Team I and everyone. * Great questions - lots of applause for both questions and answers. Winners : Team III (Jaya, Farah, Mukul, Rahul D, Soumava, Zyfn, Vcat) Runners Up : Team I (Naazneen, Umeed, + 4 others) Report by Vcat