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For the Yash Marathe Prize (the prize is named after the best college quizzer of the previous year!) Who can participate : Any (full time) college student from a Pune college . 11th standard onwards. Please carry a college identity card if you are not a BCQC regular (we will be polite in case we challenge your presence) When : tentatively scheduled for 29th March (Sunday) . Reporting Time: 1:45 pm 1:15 pm ; Prelims begin at 2:00 pm 1:30 pm . What: A general quiz. Written eliminations (30 mins), 8 qualifiers in the final (~2 hours). This is a solo quiz. Venue: BC Lawns, COEP Prizes : for all finalists; also for best first year participant & junior college participant Registration: On the spot Contact: Ramanand (9764258560) The quiz is strictly for college quizzers from Pune, so we aren't inviting entries from outside. Also, the quiz is meant for student quizzers, so we will not be able to accommodate part-time students or professional quizzers with suspicious ...

The next BCQC Open Quiz Day will be held on April 5th (Sunday). The details: Date: 5th April (Sunday) Open for all; no prior registration needed; No entry fees Two member teams Prizes for Best School and College Teams Venue: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, "Bhageerath", Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., 402, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune - 411016 (The nearest landmarks: The location is behind Domino's Pizza, near the new ICC Towers complex, Mainland China, the Indiabulls shop. The place is about 2 km from Pune University.) Quiz 1: Western Movies-Entertainment-Literature-Arts Quiz Quizmaster: Aditya Gadre Timing: report at 9:30 am, quiz timings: 9:45 am to 12:45 pm Quiz 2: General Quiz Quizmasters: Meghashyam Shirodkar & Aniket Khasgiwale Timing: report at 2:15 pm, quiz timings: 2:30 pm to 6 pm Contact: Phone: Ramanand (97642 58560), Salil (98231 12258) Email: contact(at)bcqc(dot)org http://bcqc.org/?q=feb09 Prizes co-sponsored by Landmark, Pune

A quiz blog that doesn't purvey questions may seem like the story in a Monica Bellucci film: unnecessary. But then quizzing isn't all about the questions, or so we think. There are a number of (good) blogs that provide a regular dose of questions for trivia-vores, but we are not like them. This wasn't a conscious choice to differentiate ourselves from the rest, but truly a reflection of those who run this blog. A few reasons: 1. With Occam's razor held to our throat, we may confess that the simplest reason is laziness. Typing out questions and posting them regularly demands effort, attention, and diligence, which are qualities that automatically disqualify us. 2. We are quizzing geeks and prefer little else to making inane chatter on the peculiar sub-culture of quizzing. Most of this has had a negative contribution to the intellectual progress of mankind, but we're too busy to notice. 3. We are perhaps the first, and (almost) uniquely so, to take our post-quiz t...

This report from the official site tells us that SCMHRD's Gaurav Parab and Amneet Sodhi won a tight contest, with Symbiosis Law (Subhodeep Jash & Suvajit Chakraborthy) finishing second. Well done to the winners!

Obligatory Question: If you were wearing the 'mustard & tomato', what would you be? The first two months of 2009 were so frenetic that there was hardly any time to put a newsletter together. Here's how January and February turned out for the Boat Club Quiz Club: Quizzes The January BCQC Open Quiz Day saw two general quizzes, one by Pradeep Ramarathnam of the BQC and the other by Suvajit Chakraborty and Yash Marathe , both leading college quizzers from Pune. Local colleges VIT ( Quiz-o-Mania ), AFMC ( Shyam Bhatt Memorial Quiz ), Fergusson College ( Inquizzition 8 ), and MIT ( Axlerate ) held their annual general quizzes in these two months. AFMC also held several theme quizzes as part of their annual fest, as did Symbiosis Law, who also had a general quiz called Jigyasa (a quiz that was set and conducted by the BCQC). Clearly, this packed quizzing season saw an abundance of themed quizzes, with sports quizzes at Sinhgadh College of Engineering and COEP . But...

Set and Conducted by Rohit Bahulekar Results: 1st: Aditya Gadre and Yash Marathe : 145 pts 2nd: Suvajit Chakraborty and Rohit Chandrachud : 85 pts 3rd: Yasho TAmaskar and Gaurav Singh : 70 pts 4th: Kunal Pungaliya and Sudharma Bapat: 45 pts 5th: Bharat Marathe and Sameer : 30 pts 6th :Anirban and Sarat : 25 pts Report The quiz had a nice elims . Highest score of 17/25 with cutoff of about 10/25. Good spread of topics covered. Finals had some very good fundae . Some questions were peters and some had wierd answers which led to few arguments. There were quite a few questions and a lot of sports covered. The theme was pretty good and easily gettable.

Set and conducted by Karan Pande Pandav and Rohan Jain Results: 1st: Aditya Gadre and Suvajit Chakraborty : 120 pts 2nd: Aniket Khasgiwale and Yasho Tamaskar : 80 pts Jt 3rd: Keyur Munot and Jaipal : 50 pts Jt 3rd: Siddharth Cavale and Nikhil Motlag : 50 pts 5th: Kunal Pungaliya and Sudharma Bapat : 30 pts 6th : Aditya Pawar and Karan Mann : 10 pts Report A rather business heavy general quiz . Most of the questions were good. Elims were very nice though a few questions could have been framed better. Finals were pretty good , but then had too much vulgarity (with questions on Viagra, flavoured condoms, Erotic novels , books with naked photographs ) for my tastes. One crib about the quiz was that the QMs hadn't decided on what answers they were going to accept (whether to give points for funda or not). One good question had to be scrapped and another two led to a few arguments. Other than that a decent effort from the QMs. Report by Aditya Gadre