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Set by Aniket Khasgiwale, Yash Marathe and Aditya Gadre Format: 30 question elim to determine the 8 quarter finalists. Then a 60 question quarter final to determine the top 4 i.e. the semi finalists. A 40 question Semi final to narrow down to the top 2 in the finals. A 24 question Finals played over two legs (home and away) to determine the winner.  Report:  The elims were slightly easier than the previous year with more participants making double digits. Shrirang topped the elims with 14 points. The cut off was 8.5 with two stars. The field was quite strong and the youngsters Snehasis Panda and Rishwin Jackson put in a great performance to qualify for the Quarter finals. Seasoned sports quizzers Anand Sivashankar, Harish Kumar, Kaushik Koley, Sameer Deshpande and Deepanjan Deb all narrowly missed out on qualification.  The Quarter Finals: The Quarter finalists were Shrirang Raddi, Venkatraghavan S (aka Ingit Sir), Snehasis Panda, Shubhankar  Gokhale, Anurag...

The BC Cup is  the BCQC's annual solo, open, loooooooong quiz to crown the Best Sports Quizzer in Pune, perhaps Maharshtra (probably India). This is the eight edition.  Format:       First, a 30 question prelim determines 8 qualifiers (or Quarter Finalists). These 8 people take part in a 60 question quarter final. The top four go through to the semi final. The semi-final will consist of 36 questions with scoring reset to zero. The top two then go to the Final where they  face off one-on one for a 24 question final.  The top college finisher (UG only, we may ask for ID cards) will get a prize in addition to all the top eight open finishers Administrivia     QMs:  Yash Marathe, Aniket Khasgiwale and Aditya Gadre Theme:  Sports Teams:  Individual Restrictions:  (or the lack of one) Open quiz. Everyone is welcome When?   12:45 pm ,  Saturday, 7th May, 2016 Where?  The Boat Club, College of Engi...

Shyam Bhatt Open Quiz 2016 Set by J Ramanand, BV Harish Kumar and the Choose to Thinq team Conducted by J Ramanand (with a little help from Deven Deshpande) Results:  1st: Shrirang Raddi and Aditya Gadre :185 pts 2nd: Abhinav Dasgupta and Shubhankar Gokhale: 145 pts 3rd: Balakrishnan satyam and Rahul Kottalgi: 140 pts 4th: Omkar Dhakephalkar and Pranav Pawar: 100 pts 5th: Meghashyam Shirodkar and Varun Suresh: 75 pts 6th: Anurakshat Gupta and Kaushik Chatterji: 65 pts 7th: Rohan Danait and Anand: 60 pts 8th: Aman Sheikh and Divij Ghosh: 40 pts Report: The 30th edition of the oldest quiz in Pune, started with a 30 question elim, divided into three sections of quicks (short questions), deliberates (longer questions) and two pointers (well, two parts per question for a point each). Overall I liked the elim for the fundaes it covered, but felt it was a bit too tough. The cut off was 14/35 and the top score was 22/35. On the content, my general feeling was that a lot o...

BC InFest 2016 went off quite smoothly and as usual there were some great quizzes and more importantly a lot of laughs and general merriment. Here is what happened:  (All reports by Aniket Khasgiwale) Day 1: InFestYouUs InFestYouUs 2016 in its shorter avatar saw 22 people take part on topics of their choice (some even took part in topics not of their choice as some people didn't show up) This time, InFest took place in a room and not on BC lawns which IMO took away from the "mob effect". None-the-less the quizzes were enjoyable - with no set being inordinately difficult or easy skewing the results.   Kunal justified his military god tag was on target for 7 of his 10 questions on Fighter Aircraft of the Cold War to finish with the top score. Results (only scores above 5/10) Kunal Sawardekar (Fighter Aircraft of the Cold War) - 7 points  Omkar Yarguddi (Sitar in Hinudstani Classical Music) - 6 points Sampuran Singh (Fla...

This is the schedule for InFest 2016: Saturday, January 16th: 10 AM - 1:30 PM: InFestYouUs: the quiz where you take on the mob in your topic of specialty. The participants and topics are as follows:  1:30 PM - 2:30 PM: Lunch break 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM: A quiz by Omkar Dhakephalkar Sunday, January 17th: 10 AM - 12 PM: An Unreal Quiz by Aditya Gadre 12 PM - 1 PM: Lunch break 1 PM - 3 PM: The autobiographical quiz. QMs Navin Sharma, VCat, Kunal Sawardekar and Avaneendra Bhargav will ask a few questions based on things they have seen or done over the last one year. 3 PM - 5 PM: Jai Hind Jai Maharashtra by Aniket Khasgiwale. An India quiz with a special emphasis on my homeland of Maharashtra. Other administrivia: The venue for all quizzes will be the Boat Club at the College of Engineering, Pune. Teams, if at all, for all quizzes will be made on the spot. All quizzes are open to everyone, so feel free to drop by and attend the quizzes. In case of an...

Presenting the BCQC's more-or-less annual more-or-less quizzing anti-fest: The BC InFest also known as BCQC.orgy! InFest 2016 will take place on the 16th and 17th of January at the Boat Club, COEP. For those who have no clue about InFest (i.e. all but 6 of the people reading this) - its this thing where we organize a lot of fun stuff over one weekend - some great QMs will be conducting interesting quizzes AND we have InFestYouUs InFestYouUs is o ne of our main events at InFest.  It is a mastermind style event to crown the person who has the least amount of work to do in real life and can win a quiz in his topic of specialisation against a mob of quizzers.  This time we will be running a shorter, version of InFestYouUs which will take place on Saturday,16th Jan, 2016 at 10am. The format is as follows: Each person chooses a topic of their interest. The taker would be asked 10 questions. The taker will be awarded 1 point for getting a question right. If missed, th...

This Sunday (25th) saw the BCQC October Open being conducted at Extentia in Kalyani Nagar. The event consisted of two quizzes with an impressive contrast in QMs – a short written quiz by post-Aashiqui (post-HAHK even) Pranav “Floyd” Joshi followed by the main Gen quiz by pre-CHOGM Samrat Sengupta. QUIZ 1: Name: What's In A Name? Maybe There's Something In a Name QM: Pranav "Floyd" Joshi Style: Written (20 questions) Flavor: General Results: 1. Aditya Gadre + Arnold D'Souza (16) 2. Omkar Dhakephalkar + Pranav Pawar (12.5) 3. Shivam Sharma + Suraj Prabhu (11.5) 4. Samrat Sengupta + Gokul (10) 5. Vineet Chaurasia + Sampooran Singh (9.5) 6. Divij + Dhananjay (9) This was originally billed as a quiz with no proper nouns in any of the answers. This is an interesting idea and automatically forces the setter to frame questions in a more "work-out-able" structure. However, for certain reasons unknown to us, the QM decided at the last minute...