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Tata Crucible — The business quiz - Pune round The Tata’s are conducting an all India Business Quiz for corporates. Details are at this link . Pune round is scheduled on July 15 (Thursday); time: 4pm Venue Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, Range Hills Road, Kirkee Cantonment, Pune 411020 Thanks to Manish for the alert.

A history of the Verve Quiz - 1998 to 2004 A collective gnashing of teeth and muttered imprecations and a general rise in profanity levels would accompany any recounting of the madness of the events of the past connected with the conduct of the Verve quizzes. Verve is the name of the inter-college festival organised by the Express Youth Forum (belonging to the Indian Express, Pune ) and has a quiz as part of the many competitions that make the whole fest. Principally due to the fact that the quizzes have been (except on three occasions) been organised by those EYF guys who didn't know the word "quiz" started with a "Q", Verve has been the scene for some incredibly astonishing gaffes and infuriating formats. A full recap follows. If anyone is wondering why then do the Verve quizzes have any mainstream relevance, it is only due to the fact that it is the sole quiz that makes the headlines in the colleges. Hardly anyone in one's college (thi...

UCQ Results Kunal S. alerts about the results of UCQ ( this link )which aren't great if you are a Pune quizzer. No Pune team made it to the list of 24, but AFMC (#26) and VIT(#28) are the two standby teams. There goes my career as a quizzing psephologist too. Looking at the other results, two guys who took their elims in Pune (K. Anil Kumar - IIM-Cal and Kiritee Mishra from IIT-Kanpur) made it. Interesting to note that old pal Sidharth Chauhan from ILS Bangalore has made it too. Can see a few other ex-MMI participants as well. Incidentally, no teams from ISB (on standby), MDI or last year's winners SPCE seem to have been selected. Best wishes to the teams.

UCQ 2004 - Pune elims I was the (unwilling) local Pune coordinator for the UCQ written elims. The questions were typically Synergy-like, a good mix of all topics, a slant towards current affairs in all areas, 50 decent questions (not all entirely workable). Was quite appalled by the turnout, just 5 full teams from 4 colleges. VIT had two and FC, last year's city representatives AFMC, and SIMS making up the rest. No COEP, no AIT. Siddharth Natarajan informs me of the difficulty of getting 3 others, and I can only feel for him. Sad state of affairs. Speaking in a personal capacity, I think FC have a great chance of qualifying. They're sure to do par and above in their elims as they have a good team in Kunal, Shakti, Ashish and Sangita. They also have several other "profile" related advantages - they're Arts students (not the usual mgmt|engineers), have a female participant (without detracting from your quizzing aptitude Sangita :-) ) and their colleg...

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