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ACES 2007 School Quiz Date: 4 Nov, 2007 Venue : Tilak Smarak Mandir Organised by: Abhinava Vidyalaya, Pune and BCQC Set by: BC quizzers, primarily Abhishek Nagaraj, Aditya Gadre, Salil Bijur, Shamanth Rao, and J. Ramanand, Conducted by: Ramanand Quiz Final Results (40 IR questions + 1 theme + rapidfire) 1st: Abhinava Vidyalaya (F): 125 2nd: Kalmadi Shamrao (B): 110 3rd: SPM English (C): 75 Jt. 4th: Bal Shikshan Mandir (D): 50 Jt. 4th: Symbiosis Secondary (E): 50 6th: Modern (A): 15 (sadly, I left the paper with the names of finalists behind - if someone knows, please put in comments) Report * The 3rd ACES quiz was also the second time the BC was involved. The flavour of the quiz was sports + general * Kalmadi Shamrao and Abhinava also had the best contingents, with about 6 teams from these schools missing out because of the only-one-team-per-school-in-finals rule. Perhaps a end of season Derby between these two teams should be held! They are clearly the two bes...

The BCQC Landmark Comics Quiz Report (18 Nov) The quiz was successfully held on Saturday for an audience of about 40-50 people. These consisted of ages from about 10 years to vannila-flavoured adults, housewives to students to dentists to one size fits all software types. The quiz was conducted by Sudarshan and myself, with other BC members chipping in from time to time. The questions (about 150 of them) were set by BC comic enthusiasts, ranging from Indian comics, Western superheroes, Graphic Novels, Disneylanders, Franco-Belgian comics and so on. Comic-phile Shubhashis won the title of "Starocomix" in a 3 person playoff, triumphing over some worthy contenders, which included a couple of very good schoolkids. Thanks to all who came, all the BC members who provided questions, and those that were able to help out during the two hour event. If you have any feedback, please leave them in the comments. I personally enjoyed this style of 'walk-in-the-park' quizzi...

Whodunits - BCQC November Open Quizmaster: J. Ramanand Date: 4th November Format : Written elims. Top 6 teams go through. Next 6 teams play a playoff. Top 3 teams get chosen, and each of these 6 people are randomly assigned to a team which has already qualified. Results: (Team names assigned by QM, after innovative murder devices) 1st place : 85 Conch Shells (Niranjan, Harish, Vishal) 2nd place : 65 Armadillos (Anupam, Akhil, Rachana) 3rd place : 55 Bonsai (Meghshyam, Samrat, Anand) 4th place : Designer Jeans (Aditya Gadre, Salil Bijur, Vikas) 5th place : Exploding Cows (Abhishek, Meghana, Amit) 6th place : Godfathers (Gaurav Singh, Yasho Tamaskar, Venkat) Notes: The day started off with a few innovations in the elims itself. Like CAT 2005, this elims introduced "differential" marking for the first time. Elims sheets were separate from the answer sheet, an innovation which enabled participants to keep the elims sheet and facilitated quicker(and...

"Whodunits" - BCQC November Open 2007 The BC Quiz Club will be organising an Open General quiz on Sunday, the 4th of November, 2007. The details: "Whodunits" Date: Sunday, 4th Nov Venue: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems Ltd. (see this link for directions ) Time: Prelims start at 1 pm sharp, so please report by 12:45 pm Flavour: General Who can participate: anyone; it's an Open quiz; Entry is free Format: Prelims + Playoffs + Finals for 6 teams Team Size: 2 per team Details of the format will be published at this link Conducted by: J. Ramanand Prizes sponsored by Landmark, Pune Contact: email: contact@bcqc.org phone: Ramanand (97642 58560), Harish (93733 04910), Salil (98231 12258)

BarQing Mad!! (the Open MELA Quiz at Mindspark 2007) - Report Date: 7 October, 2007 Venue : College of Engineering, Pune Set by: Aditya Gadre, Aniket Khasgiwale and Yasho Tamaskar Conducted by: Yasho Tamaskar Theme: Movies, Music, Entertainment, Literature, Arts Quiz Final Results (4 rounds of IR + 1 speciality round + 1 long connect) cutoff : 17.5/30 1st: Sayak Dasgupta and Suvajit Chakraborty (E) 2nd: Meghashyam Shirodkar and Prasann Potdar (F) 3rd: Sumant Srivathsan and Ravi Venkatesh (D) 4th: Samrat Sengupta and Salil Bijur (C) 5th: Amit Varma and Rishi Iyengar (B) 6th: Nandan Gokhale and Mrinmayi Katdare (A) Notes An entertainment quiz generally ends up being biased to the tastes of the QMs in music and movies. The quiz setters here made an effort to include questions on generally ignored topics such as Indian literature. The trend however was seemed to be toward cinema - Hollywood and Indian. Sayak and Suvajit generally do very well at ent quizzes a...

Chakravyuh (Open Quiz at Mindspark 2007) - Report Date: 6 October, 2007 Venue : College of Engineering, Pune Open Quiz - "Chakravyuh" Elims set by: Abhishek Nagaraj Finals set by: Abhishek Nagaraj, Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgiwale Finals conducted by: Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgiwale Theme: General Quiz Final Results (~60 seamless IR with round reversal) cutoff : 25.5/35 1st: Avinash Mudaliar and Harikrishnan Menon (A) 115 2nd: Meghashyam Shirodkar and Samrat Sengupta (F) 110 3rd: Uddata Baruah and S. Balakrishnan (D) 85 4th: Sumant Srivathsan and Ravi Venkatesh (B) 80 5th: Salil Bijur and Maitreyi Gupta (C) 65 6th: A.P. Alagarsamy and Prasann Potdar (E) 60 Notes Chakravyuh 2007, the annual COEP quiz had already happened in April . This year, COEP organised "Mindspark", a technical fest with contributions from all departments, meant to be an annual event. The general open quiz, for the sake of legacy and permanency, was ca...

Amnesia - September 2007 BC Open General Quiz - Report Date: 16 September, 2007 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Open Quiz - "Amnesia" Set and Conducted by: Niranjan Pedanekar Theme: General Quiz Final Results (~50 seamless IR) cutoff : 20.5/45 1st: Meghashyam Shirodkar + Samrat Sengupta (B) - 100 2nd: B.V.Harish Kumar + J. Ramanand (C) - 85 3rd: Avinash Mudaliar + Harikrishnan (F) - 75 4th: Sudarshan Purohit + Abhishek Nagaraj (E) - 60 5th: Anand Sivashankar + Vibhendu Tiwari (D) - 55 6th: Kaustubh Bhat + Aditya Gadre (A) - 20 Best School teams: Nandan Gokhale + Samit, Satyavrat Wagle + Rohit Sahasrabuddhe Best College teams: Aditya Gadre+Kaustubh Bhat, Yasho Tamaskar+Aniket Khasgiwale Best Newbies: Arnab + Ramanathan Notes Undoubtedly, the best quiz of the year (even though we have had many good quizzes this year). Perhaps I should say "so far" :-) Terrific elims, one of the best I have ever taken. Almost every question seemed to m...

Trivianomics - September 2007 BC Business Open Quiz - Report Date: 16 September, 2007 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Open Quiz - "Trivianomics" Set and Conducted by: B.V. Harish Kumar Theme: Business Quiz Final Results (22 seamless IR + 4 Pune round + 4 final connects round) cutoff : 10.5/25 1st: Anand Sivashankar + Vibhendu Tiwari (F) - 50 1.2nd: Samrat Sengupta + J. Ramanand (C) 1.3rd: Vishwajeet Narvekar + Mrs. Narvekar (A) 2nd: Salil Bijur + Harsh Ketkar (B) - 40 2.2nd: Abhishek Nagaraj + Suvajit Chakraborty (E) 2.3rd: Arnab Bhattacharya + Ramanathan (D) Notes The reporting results will clearly show that this quiz was not played in the usual way. It began like a conventional quiz format, with 6 teams. But after a couple of rounds, the bottom two teams were "bought-out" by the top 2, resulting in 4 remaining teams. Finally, we had a face-off between 2 teams of 6 people each. Salil-Harsh rightly called it the "qawwali" for...

Announcement - Next BC Quizzes The Boat Club Quiz Club is organising two quizzes on Sunday, 16th Sep 2007. Entry is free. Venue: Dewang Mehta auditorium, Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune-16 (see this link for directions ) Details: Quiz 1: "Trivianomics 2007" - Open Business Quiz Time: 9.30 am to 12.30 pm; reporting at 9.15 am Teams of 2, 6 teams in the final. QM: B.V. Harishkumar No prior registration. Certificates and prizes for all finalists, as well as audience prizes. Quiz 2: "Amnesia 2007 - Surviving Factual Harassment" BCQC September Open General Quiz Time: 2 pm to 7 pm, reporting at 1:30 pm Teams of 2, 6 teams in the final. QM: Niranjan Pedanekar No prior registration needed. Open to all. Prizes for all finalists; Prizes for best all-school, all-college, and newbie teams as well as for audience All prizes sponsored by Landmark, Pune Special Prizes: The 'HEISENBERG' Award for the determined effort...

July 2007 BC Open Quiz - Report Date: 1 July, 2007 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Set by: Ganesh Hegde and Shivaji Marella Conducted by: Ganesh Hegde Theme: General Quiz Final Results (60 seamless IR) 1st: Sudarshan Purohit + J. Ramanand (A) - 100 - (Elims: 23.5) 2nd: Kunal Sawardekar + B.V.Harish Kumar (E) - 90 - (Elims: 24) Jt 3rd: Niranjan Pedanekar + Meghashyam Shirodkar (F) - 80 - (Elims: 20) Jt 3rd: Manish Manke + Abhishek Nagaraj (C) - 80 - (Elims: 17.5) 5th: Daniel Ghevarghese + Anubhav Chatterjee (A) - 50 - (Elims: 20) 6th: Salil Bijur + Harsh Ketkar - 40 - (Elims: 20.5) Elims cutoff: 17.5 out of 35 Best school prizes: Mayuresh+Nikhil (Muktangan), Aastha+Anmol (Indian School, Al-Ghubra) Best college team: Kaustubh Bhat + Aditya Gadre Best newbies: Nilay Puntambekar + Rohit Khaladkar Attended by: about 25 teams Notes Ganesh and Shivaji provided a very nice quiz last Sunday, covering different areas and asking some good questions...

"The Interrogative" - July 2007 BC Schools Quiz - Report Date: 1 July, 2007 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Set and Conducted by: Abhishek Nagaraj and Suvajit Chakraborty Theme: General No. of Teams : 63, 15 schools Quiz Final Results (team no. with elims score), cutoff: 13/30 1st: Pushkar Pandit + Vibhav Bhave of Abhinava Vidyalaya (F - 21) Other Finalists : Viraj Bathe + Sarvesh Deshmukh of SPM English (C,13), Rushabh Banthia + Rohit Telang of Symbiosis Secondary (D,15), Kaustubh Deshpande + Abhishek Rajopaadhye of SPM (E,16), Anmol and Aastha Kakaria of Indian School Al-Ghubran, Oman (A,15), Rohan Danait + Sanket Bhilare of Abhinava Vidyalaya (G,18), Punarvasu Pendse + Nachiket Deo of Kalmadi Shamrao (H,20), Nikhil Deshpande + Mayuresh Hooli of Muktangan (B,14). Report : The organisers of the BCQC School Quiz "The Interrogative" were in for a big surprise: the turnout was a staggering 63 teams from 15 schools! That means 126 young qu...

Welcome to Qurio City! Qurio City is our new weekly quiz series, where you can win a prize each week and learn interesting new bits of trivia in the process. The first question will be posted on Monday, June 25. All the details at this page .

Announcement - Next BC Quizzes (School and Open) The Boat Club Quiz Club is organising two quizzes on Sunday, 1st July 2007. Entry is free. Venue: Dewang Mehta auditorium, Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune-16 (see this link for directions ) Details: Quiz 1: "The Interrogative" - General school quiz Time: 9 am to 12 pm; reporting at 8:45 am Teams of 2, 8 teams in the final. Prior registration is necessary. Last date of registration is Friday, 29 June . Write to us for details. Certificates and prizes for all finalists, as well as audience prizes Quiz 2: July Open General Quiz Time: 2 pm to 7 pm, reporting at 1:45 pm Teams of 2, 6 teams in the final. No prior registration needed. Open to all Prizes for all finalists; Prizes for best all-school, all-college, and newbie teams as well as for audience Prizes sponsored by Landmark, Pune Contact: Email: contact at bcqc.org Phone: B.V.Harish Kumar (93733 04910/bvharishkumar at gmail), Salil Bij...

Making quizzes popular We at the BC are constantly asking questions: what makes quizzes good, what made a *good* quiz good, why do we quiz, why don't more people in Pune quiz, and what can we do to help spread the fun and cheer that we get out of this sport. One such introspection provoked this post by Salil , which received a lot of feedback. A discussion amongst some of us much later also elicited a lot of comments. Salil has put together some of the key extracts of the later discussion (featured below; read the link above for the original set of comments). As you may know, we organise open quizzes once in every two months and we'd like to know what you think of the content in our quizzes, whether you find the quizzes interesting, and what you look for in quizzes. General suggestions welcome too. Following are from a thread of discussion on attracting more people for our formal quizzes and making them more popular. Shamanth: If I were a first time quizzer, I'd e...

Rotaract Pune Open Quiz 2007 Organised by Karan and team of Rotaract Club of Pune, Main Report by Harish: Final Standings Meghashyam and Hazardous Waste (i.e. Kunal S) - 166 (Team C) Ramanand and team (i.e. Harish) - 162 points (B) Salil and team (i.e. Ganesh) - 15x (D) Doctor and Aastha Kataria - 14x (A) Highlights - 1. A quiz held at a Ladies' Club :-) 2. The QM and the organizers were not BCQC regulars so it did come as a whiff of air - some fresh, some not so fresh. 3. Elims - 25 questions in 40 minutes. 4. There was a filler quiz conducted between the elims and the finals. 5. Finals consisted of four rounds of 15 questions each. Scoring pattern - D&P; no IR. 10,5 in the first round; 12,6 in the second, 14,8 in the third and 20,10 in the fourth round. 6. There were lot of questions which would be considered 'standard trivia' among the seasoned quizzers because of the regularity with which they appear in quizzes. E.g. Mel Blanc's epitaph (final...

Mahaquizzer 2007 - Results Open category winner: J. Ramanand College winner: Sandeep M. (IIT Madras) Ladies winner: Vibha Iyer (Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics) (Sadly, I don't remember the name of the school winner - if someone does, please leave name and school in the comments.)

Rotaract Pune Open Quiz '07 Forwarding a notice: The Rotaract Club of Poona, Main is organising an Open Quiz on Sunday, 3rd June 2007 at Ladies Club, Opp. Dastur School, Camp. The Registration starts at 9.00am and the Quiz will start at 10.00am. Enquiries and Prior Registration for the same can also be done by sending an E-mail to punequiz@gmail.com or by Calling Karan - 9881896343 or Ankur - 9890164464. Spot Registration is also available.

KQA 'Mahaquizzer' 2007 The Karnataka Quiz Association will hold the third edition of Mahaquizzer, the annual solo quiz contest, in Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Trivandrum, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata and New Delhi on Sunday, 27 May 2007. Mahaquizzer is a written quiz; 150 general questions to be answered in 90 minutes. Prizes will be awarded to the person with the top score in each city, as also to the best woman entrant, the best college entrant and the best school entrant in each city. The person with the top score across the cities will hold the title of Mahaquizzer for this year. The winner will also receive the Wing Commander Mulky Memorial Trophy for Quizzing Excellence from Wingco's family on Sunday, 24 June at the time of the KQA Anniversary. Date of contest: Sunday, 27 May 2007 Time: 1000hrs-1130hrs at all venues No entry fee Open to all (above the age of 12) A list of venues and city coordinators can be seen at this link . For Pune, the venue is...

May 2007 BC Open Colleges and Schools Quiz (Sports) - Report Date: 13 May, 2007 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Open Quiz - "World of Sports" Set and Conducted by: B.V. Harish Kumar Theme: Sports Quiz Final Results (40 seamless IR + 6 Numbers round) 1st: Aniket Khasgiwale + Aditya Gadre (COEP) (B) - 100 - (Elims: 20) 2nd: Omkar Nene (Garware) + Viraj (H) - 75 - (Elims: 14) 3rd: Tanmay Inamdar + Siddharth Gokhale (BMCC) (D) - 55 - (Elims: 15) 4th: Rohit Chandrachud + Rohit Bahulekar (E) - 35 - (Elims: 13) 5th: Yash Tamaskar + Gaurav Singh (A) - 30 - (Elims: 16) Jt 6th: Vikas V (SCOE) + Arnab Pal (VIT) (F) - 20 - (Elims: 11.5) Jt 6th: Shantanu + Ruchik (Muktangan) (G) - 20 - (Elims: 9) 8th: Rishi Deshpande + Amod Bendre (C) - 15 - (Elims: 8) (Kunal + Vibhav of Abhinava Vidyalaya missed out on the finals by a mere 0.5 points) QM's Notes Tried to cover as many sports and areas as possible. Tried to make it as un-ESPN School Olympiad friendly as...

May 2007 BC Open Quiz "Indic-Nation" - Report Date: 13 May, 2007 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Set and Conducted by: Shamanth Rao and Salil Bijur Theme: India Quiz Final Results (team no. with elims score): 1st: Anand Sivashankar + Vibhendu Tiwari + Meghashyam Shirodkar (8 - 32.5) 2nd: B.V. Harish Kumar + Ganesh Hegde + Niranjan Pedanekar (4 - 33 (highest elims score)) 3rd: Manish Manke + Siddharth Natarajan + Kunal Sawardekar (1 - 32) or Samrat Sengupta + J. Ramanand + Abhishek Nagaraj (6 - 30) (scores not clear) Others: Aditya Gadre + Aniket Khasgiwale + Yashovardhan Tamaskar (2 - 25), Ketan Doshi + Ashwin Kulkarni + Sumedh Kulkarni (3 - 22.5), Rahul + Vibha + Rachna Gothi (5 - 22) (cutoff elims score), Jay Athalye + Kedar Toraskar + Akshad V. (7 - 24), Anand Ayyadurai + Krishnan Sekar + Georgie Matthews (9 - 23.5), Kunal Thakar + Arnab Pal + Anupam Akolkar (10 - 28) Salil has the following notes to offer from yesterday's quiz: A few "pri...

BC InFest 2007 - Report The latest edition of BC InFest happened at on a quiet Sunday at the serene Boat Club setting amidst politely cloudy weather and many dollops of fun. It saw a good participation of about 20-25 people, and saw its share of good questions, bad humour and care-free quizzing. We only had time for three quizzes: Meghashyam ("shyam*10^6") put on some excellent questions from a breadth of topics, Maitreyi pulled out some interesting questions from a recent quiz of hers, and Ganesh's religion quiz was quite novel and impressive. The highlight of the day was InFest-You-Us , the new speciality themes solo quizzing section. The format was as follows: each person had chosen a topic of their interest, preferably a slightly off-beat one, to be set by one of the others. This way, almost everyone participating had set a topic. The taker would be asked 15 questions: 1 point for getting a question right. If missed, the question would go to the "Mob...

BC May Open - India Quiz

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BC InFest 2007 This Sunday at the COEP Boat Club. All the details here.

Abhimanyu 2007 - Results 1st: Aniket Khasgiwale ("India at the World Cup Cricket") Other participants: Aditya Gadre ("Manchester United"), Abhishek Nagaraj ("The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books"), Kaustubh Bhat ("The musical career of Metallica"), Udbhav Bhatnagar ("FRIENDS the TV Series"), and Kapeesh Saraf ("The musical career of Pink Floyd") Aniket wiped off 9 out of 10 in his topic round and had little to do in the GK round. Aditya and Abhishek gave him the most competition.

Chakravyuuh 2007 - Report Date: 14 Apr, 2007 Venue : COEP Open Quiz Set by: Abhishek Nagaraj, Aditya Gadre, Gaurav Singh and others from COEP Theme: General Quiz Final Results (48 seamless IR + 1 written connect qn + 6 direct speciality questions 1st: Kunal Sawardekar + Shamanth Rao (A) - 115* (won on better elims score) 2nd: Amit Varma + Sumant Srivathsan (D) - 115 3rd: A.P.Alagarsamy + Prasann Potdar (B) - 70 Jt 4th: J. Ramanand + B.V.Harish Kumar (F) - 55 Jt 4th: Samrat Sengupta + Salil Bijur (C) - 55 6th: Meghashyam Shirodkar + Aditya Udas (E) - 40 Quiz Elims Results (cutoff: 19/30 qns) Samrat + Salil - 22 Kunal + Shamanth, Meghashyam + Udas - 20 Amit + Sumant, Alagarsamy + Prasann, Ramanand + Harish - 19 Dhananjay Shettigar + Amit Pandeya were also on 19, but missed out on starred qns. Solo Entertainment quiz: (set by Aditya Gadre and Kaustubh Bhat): won by Aditya Udas Report * The open quiz saw good attendance (I guess ~30 teams). * A good and int...

These are the posters for chakravyuh. Useful in case you missed out on any info. Also if people could put up these posters at your respective locations(workdesks, "watercoolers", notice boards etc), that would be of great help. Merci. Broadcast end. (PS : links point to printable files.) Click here to download Click here to download

The College of Engg. Pune (COEP) will organize its annual open quiz contest Chakravyuuh 07. The details are as follows: Date : 14th April, Saturday Venue : COEP Auditorium ( Directions ) Registration : 2:30 pm Elims : 3 pm Solo Entertainment Quiz : 4 pm. Finals : 4:30pm onwards. Other details: Team Size : 2 Nature : General trivia. Restrictions : None. Open to everyone. Registration : On the spot. Contact information : Aditya Gadre - 9881101291 Website : Click here Finals will be followed by a performance by COEP's award winning band.

Intechxication 2007, MIT - Report Date: 31 Mar, 2007 (Saturday) Venue : MIT, Pune Quiz set by: Akshad Vishwanathan 1st: Kunal Sawardekar + Shamanth Rao 2nd: Ganesh Hegde + Abhishek Nagaraj 3rd: Suvojit Chakraborty + Salil Bijur 4th: Vivek Philip + Safal Mohammed 5th: Akansh Gupta + Siddharth Raman 6th: Rohit Prabhavalkar + Shreesh Sikaria

March 2007 BC Open Quiz - QM's (Harish) notes (See the report on the quiz ) Some of the objectives I had set for this quiz: 1. Set a new precedent for the BCQC Open in terms of production values. 2. Increase the audience involvement during the finals. 3. Questions to be framed in such a way that every team 'type' (those who prefer to work it out; those who know a lot; those who just guess) should have an equal chance. 4. Introduce areas which have not been covered till date without losing out on the interest levels. 5. Make the quiz more interesting with new rounds/formats. Some notes: 1. Low turnout for the quiz. We need to get the scheduling right and the QMs need to focus their energies on retaining those who do turn up. 2. Very low scoring elims. Lot of questions in the finals went unanswered. JR - can you confirm the number? (JR: 13 out of 36, seamless questions only) I don't agree with Anand's diagnosis - as mentioned in his comment. But we need t...

March 2007 BC Open Quiz - Report Date: 24 Mar, 2007 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Open Quiz Set and Conducted by: B.V. Harish Kumar Theme: General Quiz Final Results (36 seamless + 6*6 specialities + 6 bid questions + 6*8 rapidfire) 1st: Samrat Sengupta + Salil Bijur (B) - 190 2nd: Niranjan Pedanekar + J. Ramanand (C) - 140 3rd: Amit Varma + Sumant Srivathsan (D) - 115 4th: Anand Sivashankar + Vibhendu Tiwari (F) - 110 5th: Ganesh Hegde + Kunal Thakar/Sudarshan Purohit (supersub) (E) - 85 6th: Kunal Sawardekar + Shamanth Rao (A) - 55 Quiz Elims Results (cutoff: 15/35 qns) 1st: Anand Sivashankar + Vibhendu Tiwari - 17.5 (recd. bonus of 15 pts in final) 2nd: Samrat Sengupta + Salil Bijur (B) - 17 (bonus of 10) 3rd: Niranjan Pedanekar + J. Ramanand (C) - 16 (bonus of 5) 4th: Amit Varma + Sumant Srivathsan (D) - 15.5 5th-6th: Ganesh Hegde + Kunal Thakar, Kunal Sawardekar + Shamanth Rao - 15 Report (by Samrat and Ramanand) * Thankfully, unlike the mornin...

Prahelika at Concepts 2007, PICT - Report Date: 23 Mar, 2007 (Friday) Venue : PICT, Pune Quiz set by: Vikrant Agarwal and Akshaya Iyengar 1st: Kunal Sawardekar (UoP) + Maitreyi Gupta (VIT) 2nd: Vivek Philip + Safal Mohammed (AFMC) 3rd: Suvojit Chakraborty (SSLC) + Aditya Gadre (COEP) 4th: Kaushik + Siddharth (MIT) 5th: Harsh Ketkar + Arnab Pal (VIT) 6th: Harish Jakkal + 1 (WIT, Solapur)

March 2007 BC Open Colleges Quiz - Report Date: 24 Mar, 2007 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Colleges Quiz Set and Conducted by: Ramanand, Sudarshan (contributions from George towards questions) Theme: Entertainment and Literature Quiz Final Results (35 + 43 questions) Jt. 1st: Aditya Gadre + Kaustubh Bhat (COEP) - 90 Jt. 1st: Safal Muhammad + Vivek Philip - 90 3rd: - Abhishek Nagaraj (COEP) + Kunal Sawardekar (Pune University) - 73 Other College Teams: Maitreyi Gupta+1 (VIT) (55), Yash Tamaskar (COEP) + Suvajit Chakraborty (SSLC) (30) School Teams: Ojas Pandav+Kunal Tilak+Abhishek Kulkarni (5), another team of 2 (All SPM English) (10) Report * Unfortunately, the quiz was attended by very few teams , so we had to have a direct finals! :-) Poor turnout could be variously attributed to exams, scheduling it on Saturday morning, and perhaps even the themes. Lots to ponder. * Up to the participants to comment on quality of questions. * We had prizes sponsored by ...

March BC Open Quizzes Date: 24 March (Saturday) ================= 1. Quiz for college students Flavour: Entertainment, Literature Eligibility: college and school students Teams of 2; 8 Finalists By: Sudarshan and Ramanand Time: 8:45 am to 12:30 pm Prizes for all finalists and Best school teams Non-collegians are encouraged to watch the finals - lots of chocolates on offer! ================= 2. Open Quiz for all Flavour: General Eligibility: No restrictions Teams of 2; 6 Finalists By: B. V. Harish Kumar Time: 1:45 pm to 6:30 pm Prizes for all finalists, Best school, college, and newbie teams; Special audience round ================= We will have a Theme-Attic as usual in the break. ================================================== Date: Saturday, 24 March 2007 - Venue: “Bhageerath”, Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Behind Domino’s Pizza, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune - Registrations free and on the spot - Contact: 98810 00957, 93244 45248, contact@bcqc.org

This was a part of Cynosure, COEP's comp dept's first-time fest. Results: 1st : Kapeesh Saraf and Vineet Bhatawadekar (COEP) Jt. 2nd: Akshaya Iyer and Vikrant (PICT) Jt. 2nd: Suhas Mahajan and Sanmitra Kale (COEP) Other Finalists : COEP+SSLC, and 2 MIT teams. Quiz happened at COEP on the 14th of March and was conducted by yours truly. Elims and finals will be available soon. Watch this space for more. Note1: When was the last time we had 2 female participants in the top 2 (?) Note2: Kapeesh and Vineet won easily in spite of the fact that neither of them studies Computer Science. And yes, it was not all "frivolous" IT trivia. We had "hardcore" issues like Algorithms, Data Compression and OS Design discussed too. This of course, in the usual BCQC 'fun' way. Cheers, Abhishek

BC quizzing overseas - Season Opener Quiz at Georgia Tech 2007 Nupur, active quizzer at the BC lawns during her undergrad stint at COEP, conducted a quiz for her friends at Georgia Tech. A report. Date: 17th Feb, 2007 Venue: Georgia Tech's College of Computing Building Conducted by: Nupur Dave Winners: Bharat Jayakumar, Deeparnab Chakraborty, and Gaurav Bhatia. Report * I started the QC innings at gatech with a mixed bag. Questions were made, BCQC style, very workable. * Well received quiz. Great turnout. * Not a lot of people have heard about the BCQC so this was a good method to get them introduced to it. * About the quizzers who attended. Bharat Jayakumar, perusing a PhD at gatech, was the winner of the 2004 International UK vs India, University challenge. Deeparnab Chakroborty (PhD CS gatech) is also an excellent and avid quizzer from IITB. There seem to be a good pool of quizzers at gatech and with word getting around, I am sure the gatech quiz club will be ga...

Indian Cinema Quiz at B.J.Medical College - Report Date: 18 Feb, 2007 (Sunday) Venue : B J Medical College, Pune Quiz set by: Kiran, Snehal, and friends 1st: Niranjan + Ramanand 2nd: Phani Babu + B. V. Harish Kumar 3rd: Safal + Satyanshu 4th: Sameer + Anand Report * Like last time , had an enjoyable time at the cinema quiz * Was completely Hindi-cinema oriented this time * Criticisms: many qns were too easy, and lifted from the Penguin Indian Cinema quizbook * Interesting aspects: they have a very different format (with lots of buzzer questions, elims with -ve marking etc.) which forces teams to react differently * Harish and his dad (making his debut on stage!) were off to a good and early lead. Safal and Satyanshu had one dream round where they got all 4 buzzer questions set in the era 71-85, though some of it was due to some strategic buzzing. Niranjan and I made up in the exclusively-buzzer round (we had a missed a few earlier, which given the easiness of quest...

India Quiz at Silhouettes 2007 - Report Date: 17 Feb, 2007 (Saturday) Venue : AFMC, Pune Quiz set by: Anand Misra 1st: Sajith Surendran + Nitin Arun Dikshit (AFMC) 2nd: Shamanth Rao + Salil Bijur 3rd: Ganesh Hegde + Suvojit Chakraborty (substituted by Samrat Sengupta) 4th: Safal Muhammad + Vivek Mathew (AFMC) 5th: Pallavi Rautrey + Junaira Rahman (SSLC) 6th: Prashant Singh + A.K. Gupta (CME)

Quiz-O-Mania 2007 - Report Date: 3 Feb, 2007 (Saturday) Venue : VIT, Pune Quiz set by: Harsh Ketkar, Arnab Pal, Rashmi Vadnagare 1st: Shivaji Marella + Kunal Sawardekar (90) 2nd: Meghashyam Shirodkar + Abhishek Nagaraj (80) 3rd: Vibhendu Tewari + AP Alagarsamy (70) 4th: Ganesh Hegde + Salil Bijur (40) 5th: J. Ramanand + B.V. Harish Kumar (30) 6th: Niranjan Pedanekar + Samrat Sengupta (20) Report * Excellent elims with emphasis on business questions * Finals were mixed: on the -ve side, there were some vague "connects", easy questions answered on the first attempt, questions that could have been framed better. On the +ve side, there were some nice questions that were very well-framed. * Finalists outnumbered the audience members :-) * Given the mad scramble for last spot, a new term for the wooden spoon was coined by Samrat sir (whose team fittingly won it!): the Laal LoTaa (see Lanterne Rouge ) :-)

Shyam Bhat Memorial Quiz 2007 - Report Date: 15 Feb, 2007 (Saturday) Venue : AFMC, Pune Quiz conducted by: Safal Mohammad and Vivek Philip 1st: Shamanth Rao + Kunal Sawardekar 2nd: Sayak Dasgupta + Abhishek Ray 3rd: Shivaji Marella + Amit Koregaonkar 4th: Cadet Nishant Karol + Cadet Pulkit Dewan 5th: Uday Mehta + Karan Rampal 6th: Salil Bijur + Suvajit Chakraborty

Business and Entertainment Quiz at Silhouettes 2007 Venue: Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. Conducted by: Safal Mohammad Winners : Sayak Dasgupta and Abhishek Ray [Symbiosis Society's Law College (SSLC)] Runners-up : Suvajit Chakraborty and Subhodeep Jash (SSLC) Second Runners-up : Nikhil Shriram and Abhilash Chander (SSLC) Also : Vivek Philip+1 (AFMC), Kunal Sawardekar (Pune Univ) and Arnab Pal (VIT), Nikhil Motlag and Avaneendra Bhargav (AISSMS CoE). Comments: - Although the elims had a good mix, the finals had only ten business questions, compared to fifty ent questions. - Symbi Law swept this quiz, taking the first three places, putting up, as they say, a jolly good show. - Although the questions were overall quite decent (with the customary AFMC focus on fundae rather than workability), there were a bunch of peters and rather simple questions (eg a question that was very suspiciously similar to one asked in Quiz-o-mania 05, and another that asked us to identify the...

As a perpetual also-ran in the finals(and non-qualifier) of numerous quizzes, I have always deeply felt for the 4th,5th and 6th teams who despite qualifying get nothing out of the tons of money the organizers have on offer. An audience member who answers a stupid question could end up with much more than the team which came 4th. Case in point Landmark, where everyone(including that hindi-poet guy) except teams 4,5,6 went home without anything. (That's probably better that the CD of #1 Their Greatest Hits Chapter. 2 - includes super hit tracks Channa Vey, Kabhi, Duur, Tanha Dil, Maaeri, Chhod do Aanchal that I got.) That however prompted me to put into words this idea I have been toying with for some time now. It's called the 'Pot of Gold System' wherein, the total prize money up for grabs forms a central 'Pot of Gold', and that money is divided into the ratio of scores that the teams get in the finals. A few potential drawbacks are: Loss of 'tension' a...

Indian Cinema Open Quiz - B.J.Medical College The QUIZ CLUB , B. J. Medical College, and ANUNAD, Pune are organising an Open quiz on Indian Cinema. Date: Sunday, 18th FEBRUARY Timing: 10 am (tentative) Venue: B. J. Medical College, Pune Contact: Snehal - 9822326699, Kiran - 9881678946 Report from last year's quiz .