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Details of the first ever Mumbai Landmark Quiz: Date : 1st May 2009 (Friday) Time : 3pm Venue : St. Andrews auditorium, St. Dominic Rd., Bandra, Mumbai For registration and more details, pl call Landmark Mumbai at 022-26396010 or mail murali@landmark-tata.com

Set and Conducted by Aniket Khasgiwale & Meghashyam Shirodkar. Results: 1st: Rajiv Rai, Sumant Srivathsan, Yash Tamaskar (draft) [A]: 145 pts 2nd: Atul Matthew, Abhinav, Suraj Menon (draft) [B]: 105 pts 3rd: Suvajit C, J. Ramanand, Harish Kumar (draft) [E]: 80 pts Jt. 4th: Anand Sivashankar, Aditya Gadre, Devang Ghia (draft) [F]: 55 pts Jt. 4th: Amit Varma, Anannya Deb, Niranjan Pedanekar (draft) [C]: 55 pts 6th: Vibhendu Tiwari, Sarat Rao, Ajith Prabhakar :45 pts Elims: highest: Rajiv+Sumant (22/35); cutoff: 15 Participating Teams: about 40 I was quite disappointed with the (short) quiz and will struggle to think of redeeming features. Perhaps someone can comment about the silver linings. Until then, the clouds: * Elims were ok, but many questions suffered from being vague in communicating what was expected. This caused problems during correction later. Crisp answers & minimum ambiguity are necessary, especially when people apart from the QMs are correcting. * More than...

Set and Conducted by Aditya Gadre Results: Jt. 1st : Sumant Srivathsan , Rajiv Rai and Sarat Rao : 155 pts Jt. 1st : Abhishek Nagaraj , Hirak Parikh , Govind Grewal : 155 pts 3rd: J Ramanand , Yasho Tamaskar , Akhil : 105 pts 4th : Amit Varma , Ananya Deb , Vibhendu Tiwari : 95 pts 5th : Niranjan Pednekar , Salil Bijur , Apurva : 80 pts 6th : Devang Ghia , Kaustuv Gupta , Pradeep Ramarathnam : 65 pts Some thoughts about the quiz: -This was the first time I tried setting an only MELA quiz. So it was in a sense 'Something Completely Different' . - Elims turned out to quite low scoring. So most of the teams were very closeon elim score. Amit-Anand and Suraj-Kaustubh missed out on sudden death. Looking at the answer sheets , I feel a lot fo the teams over thought answers and got some simple ones wrong which brought down the elim score. That said , Rajiv and Sumant put in a great performance to top the elims by 4 points. - Sorry to all for the repeated changes in the finals line...

For the Yash Marathe Prize (the prize is named after the best college quizzer of the previous year ; next year it will have the name of this year's winner) Date : 29 March, 2009 Venue : the Boat Club, COEP, Pune Set and Conducted by : J. Ramanand (with contributions from Suraj Menon and others) Theme : General, Solo Quiz Final Results Format: 2 rounds of IR + Special round of top 4 (10 questions in a common play-off format) Winner: Yash Marathe - Modern College (A) - 130 2nd: Aditya Gadre (E) - COEP - 125 3rd: Gaurav Singh (F) - COEP - 90 4th: Rajeev Galgali (H) - Kalmadi Shamrao Junior College - 40 5th: Yash Sinha (C) - PICT - 35 6th: Aditya Chandorkar (B) - BJMC - 30 7th: Aadinath Harihar (G) - COEP - 25 Joint 8th: Suvajit Chakraborty (D) - Symbiosis Law - 20 Joint 8th: Raghav (I) - Symbiosis Law - 20 Best First Year College Quizzer: C.V.R. Sastry Best Junior College Quizzer: Rajeev Galgali Notes : The quiz started off on a low scoring note ...