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Date(s) : 20 and 21st May 2017 Quizzes : 6, Assorted Venue : College of Engineering, Pune Organized Under : Quiz Weekend '17 Quizmaster(s) : from BCQC-The COEP Quiz Club BCQC The COEP Quiz Club hosted a set of six quizzes as part of the Quiz Weekend '17 on the 20th and 21st of May. There was a range of quizzes on various topics with quizzes being open as well as restricted to college students. This weekend introduced many new quizmasters, who set quizzes according to their interests. The weekend was a success thanks to the combined efforts of the entire club. Moreover it presented an opportunity for all colleges to quiz, on the brink of holidays. Day 1: Saturday, 20th May 2017 I. Delightful farrago of facts,  fundas  and fun Chinmay Tadwalkar  (2016 pass out) conducted a General Quiz for the COEP-BCQC members. It was a short solo written quiz with 38 questions out of which eight questions were on airlines. It was an interesting quiz with ...

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 2017 edition of the BC Cup was amongst the toughest we've ever seen both in terms of the field as well as the close-ness of the results. The elims itself produced two huge shocks with two time BC Cup winner Anannya Deb and pre-quiz favourite Shouvik Guha both missing out on qualifying. Rahul Kottalgi, Kaushik Koley and Deepanjan Deb narrowly missed out by 1 point. The elims seemed to favour the younger lot with the most of the experienced folk losing out.  The Quarter Finals: The Quarter finalists were Shrirang Raddi, Venkatraghavan S (aka Ingit Sir), Gokul S, Shubhankar  Gokhale, Suraj Menon, Prat...

The BC Cup is the BCQC's annual bigly, YUUUUGE open solo quiz to crown the Best Sports Quizzer. This is the 9th edition of the quiz QMs :  Yash Marathe ,  Aniket Khasgiwale  and  Aditya Gadre Theme : Sports Teams : Individual Restrictions : (or the lack of one) Open quiz. Everyone is welcome Time : 12:45 pm, Saturday, 6th May, 2017 Venue : The Boat Club, College of Engineering Pune Prizes: Cash prizes totalling INR 9000 (up almost 40% this year!) 1st place: INR 3000 2nd place: INR 1500 3rd and 4th place: INR 1000 each 5th to 8th place: INR 500 each  Best U-22 participant (who doesn't qualify for the quarters): INR 500 Format:  First, a 30 question elim 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 ...

Quiz: Imperio Flavour: Open Biz Quiz Date: 9 April 2017 Venue: BHAU Institute, COEP QM: Vrushabh Gudade Results: 1st: Shantanou Gangakhedkarr  and Saahil Sharma (210 points) 2nd: Aranbh Sengupta  and Anirudh Anilkumar (150 points) 3rd: Omkar Borate  and Deven Deshpande (140 points) The venue was the posh newly constructed BHAU’s auditorium at COEP campus. The Prelims started on time with the organisers handing over the certificates at the beginning of the quiz itself. There were around 25 teams participating in the quiz. The elims set consisted of 18 questions only, with 13 one pointers and 5 two pointers each. The questions were quite easy with almost all participating teams at similar scores. The finals had 8 teams consisting of both open and college teams. The finals consisted of a total of 24 question on IR separated by a written round of 6 questions. The first quarter of the quiz was quite easy with all teams answering...

Date: 10 th & 11 th December, 2016 Quiz:   Lumiere Venue: COEP Fest:    Impressions 2016, COEP Cultural Fest QMs: Akshay Parale & Omkar Borate Results: 1 st – Arnabh Sengupta & Anirudh Anilkumar, AFMC 2 nd – Pranav ‘Floyd’ Joshi & Charles Matthews, Modern+PICT 3 rd – Pranjal Gupta & Rishabh Mehta, AFMC 4 th – Shantanou Gangakhedkarr & Shantanu Pant 5 th – Dhruv Sahastrabuddhe + 1 6 th – Ankit & Anurag Choudhary, PICT The quiz was spread over two days i.e. Elims on 10 th and Finals on 11 th . In a closely contested elims the cutoff was 17.5, with the highest score being 22.5. Next day, we were greeted by Abbott and Costello on Arrival (From Arrival) and taken on a b(+p)ouncy ride by the Quizmasters Akshay Parale & Omkar Borate. It was a quiz that kept us on the edge of our seats with repeated pounces and close competition between the teams in the finals. With all teams playing all out from...

Venue: PICT QM: Ankit Chaudhary and brother, Charles Matthews Date: 24/3/17 Sustainability was the name of the game, and many thanks to our intrepid quizmasters for allowing us to sustain our attempts at quizzing by allowing a generous general flavour to creep into the quiz. A very workoutable preliminary round coupled with generous hints and a thankfully non pedantic QM (which is rampant among certain quizmasters nowadays) meant that the finals were fun. With questions spread across literature, the sciences, history and vexillology, the quiz did manage to promote sustainable quizzing at the end of the day. Interesting fundae spanned from the sound dampeners next to Schipol airport to the presence of the Orient Express and hockey sticks in environmental sciences, there was much to learn about how humans have been studying mother Earth. Harambe (RIP) put in an appearance, beautiful music by Einaudi mourned our melting glaciers and places named after people ended the ...