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"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...