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The BCQC presents two open quizzes in May 2010. Here are the details: Administrivia Date : 9th May (Sunday) Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune (The nearest landmarks: The location is behind Domino's Pizza, near the new ICC Towers complex in which are situated shops such as Mainland China. The place is about 2 km from Pune University. This is a wikimapia map to the location.) Contact : Phone: Suraj (98903 59065), Ramanand (97642 58560) Email: contact(at)bcqc(dot)org 'How to's : Up to two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees Prizes (the same for each quiz) Prizes for each finalist, for the Best College Team , the Best School Team , and the Best Newbie Team . Lots of audience prizes. Prizes are co-sponsored by Landmark (Pune) and the BCQC . Morning: 'Dasvidaniya' Quizmaster : Aniket Khasgiwale Timings : 10:00 am to 12:30 pm (report by 9:45 am) Flavour : General Finals : To...

Set by : Aditya Gadre and Gaurav Singh Conducted by : Gaurav Singh Standings 1st place: Suraj Menon and Vinay N : 85 pts 2nd place: Aniket Khasgiwale and Suvojit Chakraborty: 80 pts 3rd place: Meghashyam Shirodkar and J Ramanand : 75 pts 4th place : Salil and Venkat : 70 pts 5ht place: Kunal Sawardekar (solo) : 65 pts 6th place : PUMBA : 0 pts The quiz started on a grim note as the MCQ pattern of the quiz was not appreciated by everyone. Further, there were some discrepencies in some questions. The audio-visual round was well appreciated. Yasho Tamaskar and Yash Marathe narrowly missed a final birth. The only non-BCQC team in the final was a team from PUMBA. The finals were well recieved. There were problems regarding uniformity of distribution of the questions. Some difficult questions were followed by relatively easier ones. Considering the audience and the setting, some of the questions were diluted to make them easier. Overall though, the competition was g...

Nischay Mhatre, a third year student of IT at COEP, became the latest winner of Abhimanyu , COEP 's intra-college solo quizzing champion. The quiz was organised by last year's winner (and only double champion so far) Aniket Khasgiwale. After a preliminary (written) round, 6 finalists were shortlisted. The finals were conducted in two parts: a common 15 question general round (again, written), followed by a Mastermind-style specialities round. Nischay's topic was The History of Computing . The details as follows: Winner: Nischay Mhatre - The History of Computing - 16.5 (9.5 gen + 7 in specialisation) - topic setters: Abhishek Nagaraj & Siddharth Dani 2nd: Gaurav Keskar - The Harry Potter Series of Books - 15 (3+12) - set by Meghashyam 3rd: Aadinath Harihar - The Hindi Film Music of A.R. Rahman - 14 (5+9) - set by Ramanand Other finalists : Mohit Karve ( The Big Bang Theory TV series , set by Nikhil Kundargi), Gautam Akiwate ( Free Software Movement , set by Ab...

Date: Saturday, 10th April. Venue: College of Engineering, Pune. Set by :Aadinath Harihar, Mohit Karve, Aditya Gadre, Nishchay Mhatre,Kaustubh Bhat and Gautam Akiwate Conducred by Aadinath Harihar and Mohit Karve Final Standings 1st : Omkar Bedarkar & Swapnil Bokade - 70 points 2nd : Anirudh Bapat & Abhsihek Oswal- 70 points 3rd : Mihir Rege & Vikram Keskar- 60 points 4th : Rohan Danait & Sanket Bhilare- 55 points 5th : Yash Sinha & Rohan Jain- 40 points 6th : Omkar Moghe & Rohan Ghige- 25 points Best School Team: Santosh Ranawane & Prabhat Sarode Best College Team: Suraj Dhiwar & Sanket Sen The COEP Astronomy Club and the BCQC had organised the second edition of Quiztronomy on Saturday, 10th April. The number of teams were less in number, since most schools had their vacations going on. However, there was a good response from college teams all over Pune as well as a few junior college students. The elims were fairly straightforward, with most...

Last year, in the International Year of Astronomy, an intersection of the COEP Astronomy Club and the BCQC organised "Quiztronomy" , an astronomy quiz aimed at popularising the subject among students, particularly school children. Details of the second edition of this well-received quiz are as follows: Quiztronomy is an astronomy themed quiz- the trivia being workable by everyone and not aimed specifically at astronomy enthusiasts. After the grand success of last year's event, we would like to invite you to participate in this year’s edition of Quiztronomy . The quiz will consist of written prelims, followed by a six team final. Prizes All finalists will receive prizes and certificates; Winners will also receive a trophy each The school/college contingent with the best performance will receive a “Best Contingent” trophy. This year, we will be awarding prizes worth a total of Rs.15,000/- (inclusive of vouchers) Details: Date 10th April, 2010 (Saturday)...

Extentia is a software development firm with offices in Pune. A few months ago, the BCQC was approached to conduct quizzes at the company in a package of entertaining quizzing. The quiz was conducted by Yash Marathe on our behalf. Here's a report by Vcat: Extentia Intra-company quiz I Fri, Feb 5, 2010. Location: Extentia HQ, Lane E, Koregaon Pk. QM: Yash Marathe. First round: BCQC set email quiz sent to all employees earlier in the week to generate enthusiasm for the Friday event. Topper got all answers right. Theme: General Participants split into 5 teams of about 4 each IR with 25 questions 21/25 questions answered by teams Winners: Team 2 led by Chetan Shetty, VP, Operations Runners up through a tie break: Team 1 led by Farah Nesargi, Project Manager Extentia Intra-company quiz II Fri, Mar 26, 2010. Location: Extentia ITT, Rd 12, Kalyani Nagar QM: Yash Marathe. First round: BCQC set email quiz sent to all employees on the previous Tuesday. Theme: Sports Par...