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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...