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If you read our sidebar or this post , you'll notice that we've not been much of a question posting gang. This has changed (at least for now!). Thanks to the efforts of Yash Marathe and others, who in a Veda Vyasa-like fit have taken it upon themselves to upload some of the recent BC quizzes at the BCQC Questions Blog . The first two sets are as follows: 1. The BC Cup 2011: Questions ( Report ). 2. The recently held BC August 2011 Open "Cineaste": Questions ( Report ). Before we end, a caveat. Other quizzing associations who have enthusiastically put up their questions online have often reported that people have been lifting questions without even a semblance of credit, and thus have even opted to stop putting questions online. We understand these dangers, but right now, we plan to try sharing these questions and see what happens. Perhaps we shall naively invoke the laws of karma on those who will pull Pritams on us. So if you use these quest...

Date: 7 Aug 2011 Set and Conducted by: Avaneendra Bhargav and Rohan Jain Format: Teams of 2 for elims. 29 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: 48 questions IR with round reversal. 1 written theme. Results 1st: Team C - J. Ramanand, Niranjan Pedanekar and Ranajeet Soman (draft) - 105pts 2nd: Team A - Padmanabhan Pillai, Akhil Singh and Ravi Handa (draft)- 75pts 3rd: Team B - Suraj Menon, Anubhav Chatterjee and B.V. Harishkumar (draft) - 70pts 4th: Team E - Yash Marathe, Debanjan Bose and Kaushik Koley (draft) - 65pts 5th: Team F - Salil Bijur, Amulya Sreekumar and Swapnil Pandit (draft) - 60pts 6th: Team D - Aditya Murarka, Saurabh Mishra and Rohit Iyer (draft) - 50pts Best school team: Best college team: Best newbie team: Report Although late in the calendar year, BCQC's formal quizzes were revived by a movie-themed qui...

The BCQC's Facebook Page is here . So now, if you want to join us and generally commingle, you have a variety of options: 1. The "inquizitive" Yahoogroup (get news) 2. The BCQC blog (read us, comment and rant) 3. The BCQC Twitter page (follow us, stalk us) 4. The bright new BCQC Facebook Page (join us, like us, get news) 5. ...and the BCQC site (which still remains out of commission due to some extreme makeovers underneath) (know all about us) Of course, there is the option of just ignoring us, in response to which we will immediately turn the other cheek.

After a hiatus of a year, the BCQC Open returns. Unlike in earlier times, the next set of Open Quiz days will only have one quiz per day. Here are the details: 'Cinéaste - The Movie Quiz' Quizmasters : Avaneendra and Rohan Flavour : Films 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 7th August(Sunday) Timings : 10:30 am to 2:00 pm (report by 10:15 am) Written prelims: 10:30 to 11 Finals: 11:30 to 2 pm Venue Seminar Hall II, College of Engineering, Pune Contact Phone: Suraj (98903 59065), Rohan (98811 60507), Avaneendra (90110 40388) 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. Prizes are co-sponsored by Tender Leave...

Organised by: IQA Conducted in Pune by: Amit Patil (many thanks!) Venue: COEP Number of participants: 17 Local Results - the 'worst' section score in brackets: 1st: Kunal Sawardekar: 101 (+7) 2nd: Ramanand: 98 (+6) 3rd: Suraj Menon: 89 (+5) 4th: Salil: 85 (+5) Section winners: Entertainment: Kunal, Mihir, Shivam Sharma (7 :-)) Culture: Kunal (11) Lifestyle: Suraj (21) Science: Kunal (16) History: Kunal (21) Media: Suraj, Ramanand (18) Sports: Salil, Suraj (11) World: Kunal (17) For more: keep an eye on this link . Bombay results here . Bangalore results here .

Important Update (posted 3 Jun) The location has changed - it will be held at Room No.13, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering , COEP (It is close to the Boat Club, and not on the Seminar Hall side). Reporting time remains 3:30 pm. The schedule is: Paper 1 from 4 to 5, then Paper one checking & scores, Paper 2 commences, followed by final scores. This is a solo written competition consisting of 8 sections (of 30 qns each) to be solved in 2 hours. Date: 4th June 2010 (Saturday) Saturday, June 4 · 4:00pm - 6:00pm (Report by 3:30 pm) Location: Room no. 6 , Seminar hall 2 , College Of Engineering , Pune [Near the Library and Gymkhana] Local coordinator: Amit Patil Registration: Free, but mandatory to ensure your seat. Since the no. of registrations will be used to print answer sheets, and only a handful of extra answer sheets will be available for "on the spot" registrations, book early to confirm your seat. To register, write to Amit at amitpatil2020@gmail.com For t...

Organised by: KQA Conducted in Pune by: Vishwajeet Narvekar (many thanks as usual!) Venue: COEP (thanks to Mihir, Gaurav and other students for the arrangements) School Winner: Rohan College Winner: Aniket Khasgiwale(39) Open Category Winner: J. Ramanand (59) Number of participants: ~30 Official final standings: keep an eye on this link . All scores are provisional pending adjudication. According to the KQA twitter feed , Arul Mani has won this year's Mahaquizzer with 87 points.