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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...