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Set By: Nikhil Kundargi and Neel Mehta Results: 1st: J Ramanand & BV Harish Kumar (PSPL & Infosys) 2nd: Siddharth Dani & Kunal Sawardekar (VIT & FC) 3rd: Gaurav Sabnis & Sarika Chuni (IBM & Times of India) Also: Salil Bijur & Ganesh Hegde (VIT), Meghashyam Shirodkar & Aniruddha Kasbekar (EXL & VIT), Arvind Iyengar and Aditya Pethe (MESCOE) Remarks: - The questions in this quiz, though good were quite easy. Also, some of them were not original. The elims were very high scoring, with the top qualifiers getting an astronomical 31/42, which shows you how easy the quiz was. - There were a numner of technical Snafus, including the fact that one visual connect had the answers on the slide itself. - There was a bit of controversy involving the name of Geriatrix's wife (the QMs said it wasn't ever revealed and someone said it was revealed to be Myopia in "The Secret Weapon"). However, the QMs stood fast, and research by your corr...

Organised by: Ruman Tambe & Kedar Toraskar Results: 1st: Kunal Thakar & Siddharth Dani (VIT) 2nd: Kunal Sawardekar & Ulka Athale (FC) 3rd: Salil Bijur & Ganesh Hegde (VIT) Also: Anupam Akolkar and Aniruddha Kasbekar (VIT), MIT Alandi, Srinivas Kulkarni & Aditya Pethe (MESCOE) Remarks: -The quiz was universally acknowledged as the best MIT Quiz ever. That's not saying much, but it must be said. -There was an inexplicable preponderance of Astronomy and Astrology questions. About 1/5th of all questions were star-based. -The quiz featured what is easily the most amazing question I have ever heard in a Pune quiz (I would have said any quiz, but how can you compete with Mood-I?). Q: Connect Evelyn Waugh and Elvis Presley. A: They both died in the bathroom. -Although it did not live up to the expectations of the Quizzing Elite, I think the organisers deserve to be commended for a decent first attempt at setting a quiz.

Pragya - The quiz in Rennaissance at Bharati Vidyapeeth This quiz will be right up there in the Hall Of Quizzing Disasters. We got some premonitions of what was awaiting us when the elimination paper had MCQs with gems such as "Where was the FICCI annual meeting held this year?" a)Calcutta b) Madras c) Bombay d) Ahmedabad I had teamed up with Anirudh Kasbekar and we got a call at ten PM saying that we had qualified. On reaching the venue, we found out that Dani and Ganesh's team hadn't qualified. They are the India specialists and their performance was definitely better than ours. In fact, no VIT team had qualified. We had written our college name as only PICT, although Anirudh hails from VIT. Maybe that was the reason we got through. A new innovation at the quiz was the selection of FIVE teams. The quizmasters seem to be devout numerologists. The teams were from PICT/VIT, MESCOE, 2 BVP and AFMC. The first round progressed well. The next one was a buzzer audio, v...

On Connects - II Part I of this post appeared ages ago - apologies for such a large gap! And if you don't answer, then the booted bony thing with five toes on the end of my leg will soon connect sharply with the soft dangly collection of objects in your trousers. - Edmund Blackadder to Baldrick, "Ink and Incapability" It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected." William Plomer Problems with Connects - Quality A lot of people hate and dislike connects. I think this is because either they've seen a lot of bad connect questions or just don't have the flair for it. I think the former has more to do with this aversion than the latter. Q. Connect a picture of a newspaper, a collection of people, someone looking for something, images and so on. A. Google - Google News, Groups, Search, Images etc. [Quoted by Sohel from one of his bad quizzing experiences] With questions like these, it's easy to s...

Organised by: BVP College of Engineering Electrical Department. Results : 1st: Rahul Gokhale and Mohit Chabra (SCOE) 2nd: Anish Bhat (SCOE) and Kunal Sawardekar (FC) 3rd: Sidharth Dani and Anupam Akolkar (VIT) Also: Vasukeshav Sharma snd Chandrakant Nair (AFMC); Nikhil Kundargi and Neel Mehta (PICT); Ganesh Hegde and Aniruddha Kasbekar (VIT)

BTW... I forgot to mention this in the Chakravyuuh post . Our team name that day was The Taatyaa Vinchu Code ...

Set by: Anish Bhat and Akshay Raut. Results 1st : Kunal Thakar (VIT) & Kunal Sawardekar (FC) 2nd : Mihir Shah & Rahul Gokhale (SCOE) 3rd : Salil Bijur & Anupam Akolkar (VIT) Also : Siddharth Dani & Ganesh Hegde (VIT), Srinivas Kulkarni & Aditya Pethe (MESCOE), Ashwin Date and Mohit Chabra (SCOE) Remarks The quiz, Headbang, was very rock music/Simpsons/Hitchiker's Guide/Calvin & Hobbes heavy, reflecting the QMs tastes to a very great extent. The elims were quite good, IMO, with some very workable questions, though they were again very partial to some topics. The finals, too were good, though some of the visual connects were a little weak. All in all, it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience, though some participants who were not quite with the Quizeitgeist might disagree.

Chakravuuh 2005 Held on the 6th of March Results 1st: Amit Garde & Sudarshan Purohit 2nd: J. Ramanand and B.V.Harishkumar 3rd: Anand Sivashankar & Vibhendu Tiwari Other finalists: Shivaji & Vivek, Meghashyam & Anupam, Shrikanth (spelling?)+1 Set and conducted by Siddharth Natarajan, Shabbir, Abhishek Nagaraj et al Report Finally, a Chakravyuuh quiz the way we used to know it! After the embarassing aberration of last year , Siddharth & gang gave us a good quiz. A few organising glitches as we just waited desultorily for the finals to begin, but none too major. Tough elims but interesting questions. The finals had their usual share of connects as befits a Chakravyuuh, but this time they were more balanced and good. But I felt they put too many elements even in the simplest of radial connects because of which in many such questions, the explanation of all the elements with the central theme could not be given. Case in point for me was the Emirates ques...

Abhimanyu 2005 Held on the 6th of March Results 1st: Akshay Palve ("Mahabharata") 2nd: Abhishek Nagaraj ("Company name etymologies") Other finalists: Harshad Sardeshmukh ("World Cup Cricket"), Sharmad Joshi ("English Premier League") and Kapeesh Saraf ("The films of Amitabh Bachchan") Set and conducted by: Ramanand & Harish Abhimanyu is COEP's solo quiz for COEP students conducted in a Mastermind-like format. Conducted as part of the larger Chakravyuuh event, this year saw 45 participants in the elims of which 5 qualified for the finals. Akshay won both the elims & the finals though he was given a close fight by the rest, especially by Abhishek. List of winners at "Abhimanyu" 2001 - Rahul Srinivas - Asterix comics 2002 - Sumeet Kulkarni - Formula-One 2003 - Siddharth Natarajan - Archie comics 2005 - Akshay Palve - The Mahabharata

Phoenix '05, MESCOE 4th Mar 2005 Lord of the Rings: the Entertainment Quiz Set and conducted by: Pratap Nagarkar Results 1st: Aditya Udas (MESCOE) + Kunal Sawardekar (FC) 2nd: Kunal Thakar & Anand Ayyadurai (VIT) 3rd: Siddharth Dani & Salil Bijur (VIT) 4th: Arvind Iyengar & Aditya Pethe (MESCOE) 5th: Shriniwas Kulkarni (MESCOE) + Anupam Akolkar (VIT) 6th: Ganesh Hegde & Anirudh Kasbekar (VIT) Report 'Lord of the Rings' was the quiz at Phoenix, organised by the Mech. dept. of MESCOE. Ent quizzes are popular in MESCOE; Hollywood & rock being the favourite topics. The quiz was set by one of their alumnus Pratap, known for his weakness for movie themes and OSTs. The first round was 'Movie Dialogues' where Anand & Kunal T. of VIT got of to a flying start. It was followed by rounds on 'Music' and 'Movies'. The next one was the audio round where the MESCOE-FC combine of Aditya & Kunal S. dominated. Next...

Brand Equity Quiz 2005 Results 1st: Ranjan Banerjee and Ajay Kolhatkar (Renaissance) 2nd: Shrirang Raddi & Mohit (Infosys) 3rd: Savoir Faire 4th: Synechron 5th: Amit Garde & J. Ramanand (Persistent Systems) 6th: Wipro GE Set and conducted: Derek O'Brien and Associates Report There was a less of a lot of things that the Brand Equity Quiz usually provides. First, the budgets seem to have taken a big hit with the participants not getting too many gifts (that they've grown accustomed to paying for in the entry fee). The advertising was low-key compared to usual BEQ standards, reflecting in both the reduced count of audience & teams. And as if it was all rubbing off, even Derek O'Brien was a tad subdued compared to past performances. What didn't change, however, were the results and quality of the quiz. Renaissance further embellished their reputation as the best Business quizzers in town with their 2nd win in a row making it their 3rd in 4 year...

2nd march 2005 - Organised and set by Siddharth Natrajan Results Winners: Srinivas Kulkarni & Abhijeet Erande (MESCOE) 2nd: Siddharth Dani & Anupam Akolkar (VIT) 3rd: Ganesh Hegde & Aniruddha Kasbekar (VIT) 4th: Kunal Thakar & Salil Bijur (VIT) 5th: Mihir Shah & Rahul Gokhale (SCOE) 6th: Abhishek Nagraj + 1 (COEP/PIET/whatever its called today) Report Although a Sci/Tech quiz, the QM managed to keep the audience entertained, including the non-engineering junta, which consisted exclusively of me. Audience participation in the quiz was amazing, especially by the non-engineering junta :-). Following hallowed COEP traditions, creative answers and those that defied the laws of physics were rewarded with bananas. The finalists took care to ensure that none were wasted. The audience were treated to a 10 minute monologue on turbocharging, supercharging and their ramifications on engine RPM, power, speed, the ozone layer and the national econom...