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SEAP Quiz 2004 The SEAP Quiz 2004 was held on Saturday the 25th September in Persistent Systems' Dewang Mehta Auditorium. 24 Teams turned up, something of a disappointment, but probably attributable to the fact that the quiz was only open to SEAP member companies (Don't blame the QM for this, he had no say in it). Finalists: Parimal Puranik and C. Phani (Calsoft) Srihari Suthamally and Sudarshan Purohit (Persistent) Manish Manke and Kartik Jayaraman (Geometric) Vaidyanathan K.A. and Venkata Kiran G.P. (Kanbay) Niranjan Tulpule and Satwik Hebbar (Calsoft) Siddharth Madhusudan and Parag Shetye (Synechron) The prelims were quite close with the first four placers separetd by a point apiece. Two Calsoft teams - Niranjan and Satwik, and Uma Chingunde and Vaibhav Nirargi - tied, and because of the only-two-teams-from-the-same-company cap for the finals had to play off in a tie breaker for the fifth spot. As if that wasn't enough there was a three...

Some of the quizzes that one would wish he/she had not attended, but though deserve some mention were the 3 ones in AISSMS. It seems, a new quizzing pattern (lets call it AISSMS pattern) has emerged. Consider these:- Direct & Pass (though one of them had a 'new' system called 'Infinite Remote' ). A round where one team member selects a topic for his partner. If unanswered, the question passes not to the teams, but to the first partner. Audio-visuals provided 'live' by the college talents. Trailing teams get knocked out after every 2 rounds. The finale is between 2 teams following the pattern of CNBC 'The Challenge'. Other quizzes that took place were Vedant and the TVS Tyres SmarTest. In all of them, the drawbacks of D&P showed - nastily. Major upsets and major cribs and frustrations. The quality of questions is becoming a secondary issue. Waiting for a good quiz with IR.

First the results:- 1st: FC - Kunal & Ulka 2nd: VIT - Ganesh & Kunal 3rd: VIT - Siddharth & Salil Other finalists: - VIT: Anupam & Anand SCOE: Mohit & Akshay MESCOE: Aditya & Srinivas Big prize money, 2 semifinals, decent questions, irritating QM, D & P, some weird unnecessary rounds. Comments plz.

The Quiz at BJ Medical College, Vedant Venue: Mahatma Gandhi Auditorium, BJ Medical College, Pune. Winners: Siddharth Dani & Salil Bijur (VIT) - Team F Runners Up: (AFMC) - Team E 3rd Place: Kunal Sawardekar & Ulka Athale (FC) - Team C 4th Place: Sanket Anekar & Aditya Chandorkar (FC) - Team A 5th Place: Vivek Venkatraman + 1 (BJMC) - Team D 6th Place: Kunal Thakar & Ganesh Hegde (VIT) - Team B Remarks: - The Quizmaster, perhaps because of his not having been to too many quizzes, completely underestimated the level of the quizzers attending his quiz. Out of a total of 30 Elims questions, the cutoff was 24 with all stars. This same lack of faith in the participants manifested itself in the finals. - The Khashaba Jadhav question featured in the Elims yet again. - There were some very weird rounds. One was the RIM round, where all questions were based on their sponsors, Reliance India Mobile (eg, "What is the full form of CDMA?"). Anoth...

I.Q. was the quiz which was a part of Techstasy, an inter-college event organised by Comp & IT dept. of VIT. Results: 1st: Kunal Sawardekar, Anirudh Shiva [FC] 2nd: Ganesh Hegde, Siddharth Dani [VIT] Other finalists: Nikhil Kundargi, Neil Mehta [ PICT ] Anand Ayyadurai, Anupam Akolkar [VIT] Anand, Pratik [SCIT] Organized by: Harsh Ketkar, Kunal Thakar, Salil Bijur

Calling for groupies Face it, if you are a regular reader of this blog and believe in the associated pastime, then you're not very likely to become a groupie of some rock group. Instead, why not become a group member for this blog and contribute to match reports, contemporary state of quizzing and other features? Note: Not looking for frivolous commentary here (that's restricted only to me).

The Pinnacle Quiz (SIT) Results 1st: Kunal Sawardekar [FC], Salil Bijur [VIT] 2nd: Nikhil Kundargi [ PICT ], Neil Mehta [ PICT ] 3rd: Hrishikesh Kavade [SIT] (???) [SIT] Other finalists: Siddharth Dani [VIT] & Kunal Thakar [VIT], Rashmi Vadnagare[VIT] & Harsh Ketkar [VIT], & a SIT team The Organizers: Akshay Pande & Akshay Raut Notes : * The quality of the questions was quite respectable although they did tend to be a bit obscure at times . A lot of all-around passes ensured a pretty low scoring quiz. * organized at SIT[Sinhagad College Of Engineering Pune] * This is the second year running that a quiz has been organized at SIT. (I think) that last year it had been under the aegis of the computer department . This year's version was managed by the Electronics And Telecommunications department. :: Report by Nikhil

Inquizzition winners Winners at Fergusson College, Pune's annual quiz: 2000 : Gaurav Sabnis & Neeraj Sane (COEP) 2001 : Manish Mahajan & Arka Bhattacharya (COEP) 2002 : Samrat Sengupta & J. Ramanand (PSPL) 2003 : Samrat Sengupta & Sudarshan Purohit (PSPL) 2004 : Amit Garde & Hareeth Sridhar (PSPL) I've started this to maintain these lists for future reference - will add to incorporate runners-up & finalists et al

Inquizzition - V Date : 4 Sep 2004 Results 1st: Persistent Systems Pvt Ltd - Amit Garde & Hareeth Sridhar 2nd: Infosys Pune/Accenture - Dibyasree (?) + 1 3ed: BCQC - Gaurav Sabnis & J. Ramanand Other finalists: Sinhagad COE, Meghashyam & Asavari Shirodkar, Amit Varma & Siddhartha V. (Wisden Cricinfo) Set by : Quest - FC Quizzing Circle Conducted by : Kunal Sawardekar Notes: * PSPL won for the third year running, but 5 different people have been involved in these wins! * Interesting (to me atleast :-) ) observation: on all occasions (actually on 4 out of 5 occasions I have witnessed, not sure about 2001), either Team A or B (which sit on the left side to the audience on stage) has ended up victorious!

Quizeitgeist - I Not sure how many have seen Google's Zeitgeist page, something that is rarely less than revelatory. From the bottom of the very page: zeit·geist | Pronunciation: 'tsIt-"gIst, 'zIt | Function: noun | Etymology: German, from Zeit (time) + Geist (spirit) | Date: 1884 | Meaning: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era Quizzes over a period of time establish their own zeitgeist. Most good annual quizzes achieve an invisible spirit and discernible patterns of their own which characterize them and their times. Quite often they are reflective of the people behind them, but many times they are indicative of trends and inclinations of their times. You'll also find a lot of grizzled quizzers shaking their heads at the "new age" of quizzing; this sport of ours is prone to the theory of the generation gap. This post attempts to capture this slightly undefinable feeling and kicks off a small ...

The Worst Quiz I Ever Won A stone's throw away(a paper airplane's throw away?) from the Pune Railway Station, stands Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College (BJMC) one of the most reputed med-schools in Western India. This august institution was the scene for the worst quiz I have ever won. The notice for the quiz was put up on the COEP Boat Club one rainy day when i was in Third Year. It was the part of BJMC's annual fest(!!). The exact name of the fest presently eludes me, but it was one of Ganesha's names. I am always game for any quiz, so I enthusiastically called up the organisers and registered for it. The first omen was the non-availability of my regular quizzing partner, Neeraj. He had to go out of station. It however gave me the opportunity to team up with Saket, another classmate of mine. Both of us reached BJMC. The scene of the quiz was a lecture hall that made COEP's M-13 look like the floor of a posh call centre. And anyone who has attended a...