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Set by Vivek P., Siddhesh and others from FC Conducted by Vivek P. Results: 1st: Aditya Gadre and Suvajit Chakraborty : 90 pts 2nd: Yasho Tamaskar and Suraj Menon : 70 pts 3rd: Niranjan Pedanekar and Meghashyam Shirodkar: 55 pts 4th: Yash Marathe and Aditya Chandorkar : 40 pts 4th: Salil Bijur and Kaustubh Bhat : 40 pts 6th: Amit Garde + Hareeth Sridhar : 25 pts Positives: -Elims were good.Mostly workable questions -Finals had good questions -QM conducted quiz in a very assured manner. -Effort was obviously honest . NO deliberate peters. -Some really nice fundaes covered. -Good organisation. Negatives: -Some of the elims questions could have been framed much better . -The finals were biased towards us 'pop culture' quizzers and other , much better quizzers missed out because of this. - The last theme round was made a lot more complicated than it actually was and caused much confusion.

From the recent Landmark Quiz Pune 2009 : Compiled by Yash S (thanks!): 1. Full form of SIM? Subscriber Identity Module 2. Which FM has presented 8 full budgets and 2 interim budgets including one on his b’day on 29th Feb, 1986? Morarji Desai 3. Which country does not have a border on the Arabian Sea – Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Maldives? Saudi Arabia 4. Which scientific word means ‘un-cuttable’? Atom 5. What was the name of the hero in Vikas Swarup’s Q&A? Ram Mohammad Thomas 6. Which TV show has the highest Nielsen ratings since 2005 and may beat All In The Family’s record of having the highest ratings for 5 years? American Idol 7. Which letters were removed from the name of Asus to give it a higher alphabetical ranking? PEG 8. Which term was coined by Fourier with respect to environmental sciences? Greenhouse Effect 9. Big 3 Carmakers of Japan are Toyota and? Honda, Nissan 10. Symbol designed Martin K. Speckter also known as rhet, exclarotive, and exclamaquest? I...

Date : 21 Feb, 2009 Venue : Ganesh Kala Krida Mandir, Pune Conducted by : Dr. Navin Jayakumar Turnout : ~260 teams Results (unfortunately, this blogger lost his notes with team info and scores etc, so please add corrections if possible) 1st: Samanth Subramaniam, G. Swaminathan, V.V.Ramanan, ('QED') 2nd: Gopal Kidao, Vinod Ganesh, Rajen Prabhu ('Absolute Bindaas') 3rd: Jayakanthan, J. Krishnamurthy, Diwakar Pingle ('?') Other finalists: Sumant+Rajiv+Vibhendu ('Travelling Pillsburies'); Pradeep Ramarathnam+Gaurav Grewal+Nitish Khadiya ('Misal Pav-er...'); Niranjan+Ramanand+Avinash ('Amnesia International'); Amit Garde+Anand S+Meghashyam ('Hoist by their own quizzards'); Amit Varma+Ananya Deb+Anil Kothuri ('Jai Santosh Ki Maa') Cutoff seems to be 29 or 30 on 40 Best Corporate Team : Infosys Best College Team : BITS Pilani Best School Teams : 1st: Abhinava Vidyalaya; 2nd: Army Public School Best Team Name : ...

What : Inquizzition 8, Fergusson College, Pune Where : Amphitheatre, Fergusson College, Pune When : Sunday, 22 February, 11 am Flavour : Open general quiz Details : Teams of 2, registration free and on the spot Contact : Nihar 90110-61474, Siddesh 99606-12098, Gaurav 98605-84841

Set by : J Ramanand and Suraj Menon Conducted by : Suraj Menon Results: 1st: Yash MArathe and Yasho Tamaskar : 100 pts 2nd: Suvajit Chakraborty and Aditya Gadre: 95 pts 3rd: Subhodeep Jash and Srideep: 50 pts 4th : Maitreyi Gupta and Rohit Khaladkar : 35 pts 5th : Yash Sinha and Amit Dandekar : 30 pts 6th: Karan Chawla and Saransh Verma: 20 pts The quiz started with an excellent 30 question elims. Great workable questions. One minor crib with the elims were the slightly tougher a.k.a. Quizzer friendly questions due to which there was a low cut-off which in turn led to a mass exodus and the quiz had more or less no audience. The finals consisted of 56 questions seamles IR , one long connect and a theme .Some brilliant questions there too. Great range of subjects covered. It was a tough fight till the end . The Yash's clinched it when they cracked the theme and we didn't . Suraj added some entertainment value to the quiz with his impressions of certain QMs and cries of ...

Set and conducted by : Major Anish Results : 1st: J Ramanand and Aditya Gadre: 130 pts 2nd: Suraj Menon and Yasho Tamaskar : 75 pts 3rd: Akshad + 1 : 70 pts 4th : Gaurav and Avneet : 30 pts 4th : Manas and sayan : 30 pts 6th: YAsh Marathe and Maitreyi Gupta : 25 pts The quiz started with a mostly factual 26 question elims. The finals had 60 dry questions and a special round. The questions were good i the sense that most of them had good fundae , but then most of the questions were completely non-workable which led to the thoughts of what could have been. A large proportion of the questions covered some very good facts . Cribs : -There were quite a few peters and sitters. -The quiz started very late and went on for a long time. Better organisation definitely called for. Do post your opinions in the comments section.

Set and Conducted by : Pradeep Ramamrathnam Results: 1st: Anand Shivshankar , Sumant Srivathsan , Avaneendra Bhargav 2nd: Niranjan Pednekar , Sarat Rao , Vibhendu Tiwari 3rd: Suraj Menon , Aditya Gadre , Nikhil Motlag Other finalists: J Ramamnand , Harish Kumar , Shastry ; Yasho Tamaskar , Salil Bijur and Arnab Pal ; Suvajit Chakraborty , Aniket Khasgiwale and Yash Marathe The quiz started with a long elims with 40 rather tough but very good questions. The highest score was just 21 while the cut off for the six finalists was 13 . The other three teams for draft picks had their cut off as 10. All teams were awarded points in the finals with the formula (elims score) * 2. The final was filled with brilliant questions , especially on cricket and current affairs. In addition to the standard rounds of IR passing , there was a written round where the QM used diffrential marking i.e. the teams were given points depending on how many other teams got the answer. This round changed the...

Date : 7 Feb, 2009 Venue : COEP Auditorium Conducted by : Aadinath Harihar and Mohit Karve Set by : Members of the COEP Astronomy Club and BCQC Flavour : Astronomy Turnout : ~75 teams Final Results 1st: Yash Marathe (Modern) + Suvajit Chakraborty (Symbiosis Law) (E): 95 2nd: Dawood + Gaurang (IUCAA) (B): 90* (better elims score than C) 3rd: Swapnil + Omkar (SKNCOE) (D): 90 4th: Kaustubh + Karan (COEP) (A): 60 5th: D. Mithilesh + S.P.Gautham (DAV Public School) (E): 50 6th: Sanket + Chaitanya (SIT Lonavla) (F): 10 (Scores thanks to Yash Marathe) Report Organised in the International Year of Astronomy, the aim of this first-ever astronomy quiz by the COEP Astronomy Club was to popularise the world of astronomy among students through a quiz that would be interesting even to the non-enthusiast. In this, the quiz was quite a success. An excellent turnout (though the organisers said they expected even more!) attempted a very interesting set of preliminary questions that wer...

Date : 2 Feb, 2009 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems Ltd. Conducted by : Suvajit Chakraborty and Yash Marathe Flavour : General Turnout : ~25 teams Final Results Joint 1st: Aditya Gadre, J. Ramanand, Rohan Jain (A): 125 Joint 1st: Anand Sivashankar, Sumant Srivatsan, Keyur Munot (B): 125 3rd: Vibhendu Tiwari, Sarat Rao, Atulya (D): 115 4th: Yash Tamaskar, Suraj Menon, Pradeep Ramarathnam (F): 110 5th: Aditya and Abhishek Chandorkar, Aadinath Harihar (E): 75 6th: Aniket Khasgiwale, Salil Bijur, Saransh Verma (C): 60 Scoring : Aditya Bhedasgaonkar Report A very competent quiz, the morning open had a mix of some very interesting trivia, quite a few easy ones, and a last round of specialities that didn't receive universal acclaim because of its format. The elims were not taxing, and were reasonably well-pitched even for the not-so regular quizzer (with a couple of nice red-herring questions). There were a couple of questions in the finals that drew appl...