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  Quiz : The Missing Link Date & Time : May 27, 2026, 2:30 PM Venue : Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Pune Format : 40 Questions on IR interspersed with 3 written rounds Flavour : General QM (s): Akshay Parale Results: 1. Arnold D'Souza, Uday Tej Singh, Rutv, Karan: 125 (Team 2) 2. Aman Rai, Miki, Yash, Annway Ghosh: 95 (Team 6) 3. Shivam Sharma, Atharva, Devashree, Siddharth: 90 (Team 1) Other Teams: Charles Mathew, Kranti, Om, Ayan (Team 3) J. Ramanand, Adithya, Rohan, Dunya (Team 4) Harish, Veer, Pravin, Tushar (Team 5) The first quiz in the post-Instagram BCQC era was a well-attended event, all things considered. Twenty-four people stayed back to contest the second quiz of the day, after a hearty Suraj Menon written quiz. Taking a leaf out of the BQC playbook, the wily Akshay Parale instituted a seeding system to form teams, wherein the teams of six captains (namely, Shivam Sharma, Arnold D'Souza, Charles Mathew, J. Ramanand, Harish and Annway Ghosh) were populate...

Quiz : Sab Dalo(t) Date & Time : 27 Sep, 2026, Morning Venue : Goethe Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, Pune Format : Written Quiz Flavour : General QM(s) : Suraj Menon Report : Shivam Sharma  The morning of 27th September saw a substantial gathering of curious minded folks who arrived at the shady (because of the trees and not otherwise) venue of Goethe Institute situated on the Boat Club Road. The first quiz by BCQC star Suraj Menon was titled 'Sab Dalo(t)' and contained 40 questions.  Being a written general quiz, the topics ranged from Geography to literature to brands and quirky fundas. It was from those of Suraj's questions "jinko quizmaster ka pyaar nahi mil paya'. Rest assured though, a lot of pyaar was given to the quiz by the attendees. My personal favorite was a question on the etymology of the phrase 'Aandhi-Toofan'. The top 3 standings were as follows - 1. Annway ghosh and Aman Rai : 40.5 2. Harish, Ramanand: 38.5 3. Akshay, Charles: 34 The qui...

Welcome to the BCQC. This stands for the Boat Club Quiz Club. We promote quizzing in Pune, India. The BCQC is a volunteer group of avid quizzers based in Pune who conduct informal sessions, formal quizzes, and also share information on quizzes in Pune and around India. We also host written quizzes conducted by quiz clubs from India and from outside India. New to an informal quiz session or have questions about sessions? The BCQC meets regularly, usually during informal sessions. Each session is conducted by one or more volunteer quizmasters. Sometimes, there is a specific theme, such as sports or entertainment, but most often, quizzes feature a mixed bag of topics. In a typical session, the quizmaster will go through a set of questions in one single round. Most sessions are about 90 to 120 mins long. Informal sessions are free (i.e. there is no charge).  Do I need to have a team? There are no pre-formed teams. Teams are made on the spot from among all present. Everyone gets a chan...

  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 16th edition of the BC Cup took place at the Boat Club steps on the 4th of October, 2025 - continuing from last year's schedule of doing this in the second half of the year but for completely different reasons - this year saw Aniket Khasgiwale return to the BC for the first time in at least 5 editions and scheduling was done around this visit. He sure chose a good edition to attend as this was one of the most closely contested and certainly most dramatic BC Cups ever.  The proximity to Dussehra and the festive season perhaps impacted the turnout with many regulars not making it - something to correct for next year.  The elims this year turned out to one of the toughest in years...

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 15th edition of the BC Cup took place at the Boat Club steps on the 24th of November, 2024 - perhaps a welcome change in terms of weather, but no-so-welcome change in terms of availability of refreshments.  The elims were a mixed bag - some finding it easy like Rohit Suresh aka Rotti, Prithwish Datta aka Boss and Deepanjan Deb aka DD all breaching 20 points. The rest of the field was clustered in the range of 12 to 15 points. Venkatraghavan S aka Ingit sir corrected his blip from the last 2 editions by qualifying comfortably. Sammy sir, Arnold and Anannya Deb were all on 12 points - where Dada missed out by the narrowest of margins on stars. 5 time winner Suraj Menon, and our runner up from 2022 Sach...

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...