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Quiz: The YZ Cup Date & Time: 18 May, 2024, 3:30 PM Venue: Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Pune Format: One round only Flavour: Sports-themed Gen QM(s): Suraj Menon Results: 1. Navya, Ranajeet Soman, Kunal Sawardekar, Lucky Kaul, Chaitanya, Dev K: 215 (Team 4) 2. Akshay Parale, Samrat Sengupta, BV Harish Kumar, Anurag, Dev, Ashutosh: 175 (Team 5) 3. Naman Jain, Aditya Gadre, Anurakshat Gupta, Charles Matthews, Uday, Aditya: 165 (Team 3) [Tied] 3. Pranav Pawar, Ingit Sir, Anmol Dhawan, Pranjal Gupta, Prayrit, Ira: 165 (Team 2) Other Teams: Omkar Dhakephalkar, Shubhankar Gokhale, J Ramanand, Saikat Sarkar, Man Agochar, Shivam Sharma, Maitreyi Gupta: 150 (Team 1) Agastya, Deepanjan Deb, Vibhendu, Tewari, Kshitij Jyoti, Amit, Suryansh, Venkatesh: 110 (Team 6) “ Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions. ” “… regular ‘sports’ quizzers (whatever that phrase means) …” There are very few things that make a journey on the Mumbai-P...

Quiz:  The General Quiz Date & Time:  21 Jan, 2024, 3 PM Venue:  Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Pune Fest:  InFest 2024 Format:  Prelims+Final QM(s):  Anisha Karnail, Akshay Parale, Charles Mathew Results: 1. Rajiv Rai, Vibhendu Tewari + Anannya Deb (draft) - 170 (Team 5 ) 2. Abhinav Dasgupta, Prithwish Datta + Anmol Dhawan (draft) - 155 (Team 3) 3. Joint second - Brajendu Bhaskar, Ranajeet Soman + Pranjal (draft) - 155 Other Finalists: Debanjan Bose, Bedbyas Datta + Annway Ghosh (draft): 130 (Team 6) Samrat Sengupta, J Ramanand + Suraj Menon (draft) : 135 (Team 2) Shashwat Salgaocar, Abid Abdullah + Suvajit Chakraborty(draft): 135 (Team 1) Report -  The charge of the yearly general quiz at Infest, the last quiz of the weekend, was given to the youth this year - with Akshay Parale, Anisha Karnail and Charles Mathew setting the quiz. Almost everyone who had come for the fest stayed back for this quiz and the QMs delivered on those expectations...

The Quiz lived up to its moniker of the "Big Fat Quiz of the Year", with 90+ questions!! Like Gadre says "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition", with the Elims having a torturous end for many contenders, 5-6 very good quizzers missed out by a point or less.  The quiz was peacefully conducted with no "dhangadhinga" due to the presence of an intimidating QM!! The first answer "Lone Wolf and Cub" was a nice tribute to the format, with a subtle hint by the QM.  There were several such brilliantly worded questions in the elims encompassing a wide range, workoutable but with a twist, leading to lots of oohs and ahhs at the end.  The Ten finalists were as follows. Representing the Pune Vanguard: Omkar D, Ranajeet Soman; The Pune Old Guard: Samrat Sengupta, J Ramanand; Bombay Satraps: Rajiv Rai, Prithwish Dutta, Abhinav Dasgupta; Young Turks from South of Deccan: Abid A, Shashwat S and  Lone Wolf from Big Apple: Sriram P The quiz started out with some ...

Quiz: The MELA Quiz Date & Time: 21 Jan, 2024, 10:30 AM Venue: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Pune Fest: InFest 2024 Format: Elims+Final QM(s): Ranajeet Soman Results: 1. Prithwish Datta, Abhinav Dasgupta + Brajendu Bhaskar (draft): 129 (Team 1) 2. Vibhendu Tewari, Rajiv Rai + Omkar Dhakephalkar (draft): 123 (Team 3) Other Finalists: Debanjan Bose, Bedbyas Datta + Annanya “Dada” Deb (draft): 113 (Team 6) Suraj Menon and Aditya Gadre: 110 (Team 4) Annway Ghosh, Suvajit Chakraborty + Pranav Pawar (draft): 58 (Team 5) Abed, Shashwat + Shubhankar Gokhale (draft): 40 (Team 2) The second day of InFest 2024 began with the MELA quiz set by Ranajeet Soman. All the quizzes on the second day were team quizzes, and hence so was this. The quiz began with a commendable delay of only thirty minutes as participants trooped in on a Sunday morning after Saturday night shenanigans. But it was a balmy winter morning in Pune, the city ideal for morning quizzes and everybody ...

InFestYouUs, the flagship event of the annual BCQC quiz fest, InFest, is a Mastermind-style quiz in which participants choose a specialized topic on which they are asked ten questions. They play against everyone else, who collectively form the 'Mob'. The participant gets +1 per correct answer, and -0.5 for every answer they pass/get incorrect and the Mob answers correctly. This year we had 28 sets and a new venue   –  Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Pune . InFestYouUs 2024 also featured several debutants from colleges around Pune and Open quizzers from other states. This year’s winners were Annway Ghosh and Arnold D’Souza, both scored 9 straight with the Mob not answering anything. Annway’s topic was History of the Electric Guitar, set by Thejaswi Udupa and Arnold’s was The Wars of the Roses, set by Kunal Sawardekar. Once again debutants showed their mettle at InFestYouUs in Annway’s performance. Arnold’s mastery of his topic was well-appreciated. In second place is the u...

Set by Aditya Gadre, Aniket Khasgiwale and Yash Marathe Format:  30 question elim to determine the 8 quarter finalists. 60 question quarter to determine the top 4 for the semi finals. 40 question semi-final to determine the top 2. A 28 question final to determine the winner. Report The 14th edition of the BC Cup took place at the Boat Club steps on the 13th of May, 2023 - one of the hottest day of the year.  The heat and perhaps the QFI event the next day saw a slightly diminished participation at this year's edition.  The elims was a close affair as usual and the biggest surprise was Ingit sir not qualifying for the second year in a row. One big surprise was that Dada (aka Anannya Deb) didn't make it - and by that I mean the most consistent performer at BC Cup didn't show up at all. Prithwish Datta lived up to his wounded tiger billing by putting in an imperious 21/30 to top the elims, while Rotti got 18. It was also nice to be debutants Titash and Bissanka make it to th...

Date: 23 January 2023, Sunday, Day 2 of InFest 2023 Venue: COEP's BHAU Institute Format: Elims + Finals QM: Aditya Gadre, Debanjan Bose, Sachin ‘Talent’ Deshpande, and Ranajeet Soman Team 1 – Prithwish Dutta (Boss), Nikhil Sonde and Anuradha Dharwadkar (draft) Team 2 – Kunal Sawardekar, Shivam Sharma and Malhar Patel (draft) Team 3 - Vibhendu, Rajiv Rai and Abhishek Hariharan (draft) Team 4 - Omkar D, Pranav Pawar, Pranjal (draft) Team 5 - Meghashyam, Nadeem and Anisha Karnail (draft) Team 6 - Suraj, Anannya Deb and Anmol Dhawan (draft) The last quiz of InFest 2023 was a general quiz by Aditya Gadre, Debanjan Bose, Sachin ‘Talent’ Deshpande, and Ranajeet Soman. The quiz kicked off with a nice and accessible elims set that covered a wide range of topics and included some absolute gems that were worthy of being in the finals too. The finals were a great set of questions kicking off with a small written round on famous speeches, before segueing into a phenomenal set of questions cover...