Interrobang

Set by : Sumant Srivathsan, Rajiv Rai, Avinash Mudaliar ( Bombay Quiz Club ) Conducted By : Sumant Results: 1st: J Ramanand and Suvajit Chakraborty : 53 pts 2nd: Vibhendu Tiwari and Sarat Rao :48pts 3rd: Kunal Sawardekar and Aditya Gadre :47 pts 4th: Amit Garde and Anand Sivashankar :43 pts 5th: Bikash and Roshith :17pts 6th:Arnold D'souza + Saransh Verma : 16pts Format: 48 seamless IR , 4 mini-themes of 3 questions each , one long connect and one written round. Elims cut-off: 16.5pts The quiz was very good to say the least.The elims were very all very well framed , interesting questions .In the finals all the questions were excellent , most of them were workable and not obscure. It was nice to see the heavy use of audio-visuals in the quiz. Sumant did a great job of conducting the quiz. Another good thing about this quiz was the length. I loved the fact that this quiz was not wrapped up in a hurry and none of the teams were pressurised into answering quickly. The whole thing ...

Quiz 1: “The Interrogative” School Quiz – 2008 Edition Date 27th July, 2008 (Sunday) Time 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (reporting time: 9:00 a.m.) Venue Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Bhageerath, Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd. (Behind Dominos Pizza), Senapati Bapat Road, Pune – 16 Flavour General Teams Two members per team (from Class VII to X); Teammates can be from different classes Conducted by Maitreyi Gupta, Yash Marathe, Rohit Khaladkar Prizes * All finalists will receive prizes and certificates; Winners will also receive a trophy each; Audience prizes * The school contingent with the best performance will receive a “Best School” trophy. * Prizes worth a total of Rs.12,000/- * The prizes are co-sponsored by Landmark, Pune. How to register Prior registrations are required, though some on-the-spot registrations can be accepted. Schools have been sent invitation letters. Interested participants are requested to contact their principal/teacher-in-charge. If your school has...

Amit Varma was kind enough to pick up some fragments of mine for an interesting article on quizzing . Serious quizzing still remains very niche, a masonic sub-culture of sorts, but it takes a quiz-geek to know there are three ways of looking at every intersection, even if it only seems to be a straight road. Anyway, as Amit mentions in the end of his post, check out Niranjan's primers ( 1 , 2 , 3 .) on setting quizzes (to which I've made a small contribution). Perhaps they need a little touching-up, but they're perennially relevant. In other news, a certain Salil Bijur catapulted into top spot in the rankings of the local BCQC Page 3 Quizzers League given his recent appearance in this pub quiz (scroll past the large expanses of skin to the bottom - I must admit that doesn't sound very decent). It didn't go all according to plan since he missed the question on the country with the oldest flag (Denmark), a sitter if there ever was. Too bad they weren't serv...