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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...