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Trivius - An online trivia game Play Trivius , an online trivia game from the School of Management in IIT, Bombay. The content was created by us at the BCQC . Read the rules on that site and get clues at the Avenues blog .
Inquizzition 2006, FC Date: 30 Sept, 2006 Venue : Fergusson College, Pune Set by: Quest, FC Quiz Society Conducted by: Ulka Athale, Veda Aggarwal Quiz Final Results (60 questions) 1st: Aadisht Khanna and Rishi Iyengar: 105 Jt. 2nd: Kunal Sawardekar and J.Ramanand: 100 Jt. 2nd: Anand Sivashankar and Vibhendu Tiwari: 100 Jt. 4th: B.V.Harishkumar and Arka Bhattacharya: 60 Jt. 4th: Amit Varma and Leslie: 60 6th: Shivaji Marella and Ganesh Hegde: 50 (11 out of 60 questions went unanswered) Quiz Elim Results (in descending order - IIRC) Cutoff: 18/35 Aadisht-Rishi, Shivaji-Ganesh, Ramanand-Kunal, Amit-Leslie, Harish-Arka, Anand-Vibhendu Individual Quiz winner: Suvajit C. Report * It's only fair to say that if you made a list of things that could go wrong at a quiz, a lot of them could be ticked off as having happened at FC on Saturday. This post is going to be a lot about it, I'm afraid. I'm not sure there was really much to salvage from the day. * W...
September 2006 BC Open Quiz Date: 24 Sept, 2006 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Set and Conducted by: Kunal Sawardekar and Kunal Thakar Quiz Final Results (46 questions) 1st: Ganesh Hegde and Shivaji Marella: 80 Jt. 2nd: Shamanth Rao and Salil Bijur: 60 Jt. 2nd: Samrat Sengupta and J. Ramanand: 60 4th: Akhil and Apurva: 40 5th: Meghashyam Shirodkar and Aditya Udas: 35 6th: Harsh Ketkar and Rashmi Vadnagare: 20 (15 out of 46 questions went unanswered) Quiz Elim Results Cutoff: 8/21 Shamanth+Salil topped the elims Newbie quiz by: Abhishek Nagaraj and Salil Bijur Report * Despite suspicions (;-)) of a quiz filled with hard rock quiz and a Bart-Homer jugal-bandii, the questions were quite interesting, and as should be, reflective of the different interests of the quiz-setters. So we did have questions on rock music and Bart Simpson, but we also had questions on politics, dynasties, tech trivia, literature, India and etymology. Though perhaps not a quiz that...
ACES 2006 School Quiz Date: 23 Sept, 2006 Venue : Tilak Smarak Mandir Organised by: Abhinava Vidyalaya, Pune and BCQC Set by: BC quizzers Conducted by: Ramanand Quiz Final Results (56 questions) 1st: D.E.S. Secondary School (Akshay, Deven, Makarand): 130 2nd: Abhinava Vidyalaya (Gautam, Nissim, Neil): 120 3rd: Muktangan (Ruchik, Shantanu, Siddharth): 110 4th: Bishops (Karan, Raghav, Puneeth): 95 5th: S.P.M English (Jaideep, Kaustubh, Abhishek): 85 6th: Symbiosis Secondary (Abhishek, Mihir, Rohit): 60 (9 questions out of 56 were unanswered) Quiz Elim Results (in descending order) Cutoff: 20/30 Abhinava, Muktangan, Symbiosis, Bishops, DES, SPM English (the quiz had a rule that only one team per school could make it to the finals which meant second teams from Abhinava and Symbiosis who scored higher than the cutoff could not make it to stage) Report * This is the first time we've been involved in a school quiz, and approached it with a view to introducing i...