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Organised by: KQA Conducted in Pune by: Vishwajeet Narvekar (many thanks as usual!) Venue: Landmark, Pune (thanks to the staff for turning up so early and for the arrangements) School Winner: Roopak Karalkar (22) College Winner: Sukrit Munjal(32) Ladies Winner: Meghna Sreenivasan (11) Open Category Winner: J. Ramanand (69) Number of participants: ~40 to 50 Official final standings: keep an eye on this link . Updated on 6 Jun * Links to Top 100 results , local winners , and rankings in the ladies, college & school categories . * Link to the Mahaquizzer 2010 Q & A . * Four people from Pune were in the top 100 (Ramanand, Kunal S, Suraj, and Salil), with a few more BCQC members from other centres. Roopak K was ranked 11th in the list of school students.

The Landmark In-Store Movie Quiz was successfully concluded on Saturday evening. Quizmasters Niranjan and Suraj conducted the proceedings with great (and dare I say, Dereksian) flair, while Harish and I provided logistical and moral support. The quizmasters asked about 60-70 regular questions to the audience at large, followed by a final round of about 5-6 questions to four teams of the top scorers in the regular round. The audience for the quiz consisted of about 50-60 Landmark patrons (all adults, and thankfully so, seeing as Niranjan took the time to speculate on the strip club-visiting habits of the participants) with a core of about 20 staying through the quiz. In sum, fun was had by all. Sadly, I did not note the names of the finalists, so perhaps Niranjan can let us know when he sees this. Report by Kunal Sawardekar This was the 3rd Landmark in-store BCQC quiz. The earlier ones were on the themes of Comics and the Books of Harry Potter.

We're going plane-crazy on Saturday evening. With a quiz on movies. If you're a quizzing enthusiast (read 'drooling geek') show up. If you're a movie buff, we'll be waiting for you. If you are both, then come on right in. If you are neither, then this quiz is tailor-made for you! maajraa kyaa hai? : an informal movie quiz by the BCQC and Landmark, particularly for non-quizzers. main kahaan huun? : Landmark, SGS Mall, Pune maal kab pahunchegaa? : between 5 and 7 pm, Saturday (22nd May) kitne aadmi hai? : there are no teams, no formalities, no registrations. Just show up, take a seat or stand by, and participate. That's about it, really. See you on Saturday.

Niranjan and I teamed up for the Pune round of Brand Equity 2010 quiz where we finished 3rd. Neither of us is any good at biz-quizzing, and so admittedly, a mercenary attitude fueled the decision to travel the entire diameter of Pune. Despite the middle-level placing (not bad, given the presence and three-blade-close-shave elimination of some very good teams), we can't help a couple of rants. On the difference between data mining and data compression Or, to compress the question, the various differences between data compression . I hate having to answering such school-type questions 1 , but I guess we're always ready to pawn our soul for 10 points :-). So we defined it as being techniques "for reducing the size of data for transmission/storage etc" (paraphrasing), but were ruled wrong. I'm not sure what the correct answer was, but I think it was to the effect of "extracting only that info from data that is needed" (memory fails me, as I was still ...

Date : 14 May, 2010 Conducted by : Derek O'Brien Venue : Ishanya , Pune Turnout t: 23 teams Standings 1st: Infosys (C): Ajay & Jayakumar (95) 2nd: Advinus Therapeutics (A): Suraj & Siddharth (58) 3rd: Cognizant (B): Niranjan & Ramanand (55) 4th: Neo Green (D): Shubhodeep & Sandeep (40) 5th: RBI (F): Mohana & Priyam Bhattacharya (35) 6th: QED Baton (E): Nikhil & Tejas (10) (IBM - Vishwajeet & Ramanathan just missed out) Report The theme of the year was 'social networking', so much so that it also was the answer to a question. This was one of the few really good questions in an otherwise routine Brand Equity quiz round. The finals began with a round of direct multiple-choice questions (no passing), went on to a round of 'dry' questions, followed by a 'identify' visual round (reversed passing) and another 'dry' round. The fifth round was an audio-video round, at the end of which the last team dropped out (there ...

We have an announcement on the World Quizzing Championships, and the details of the Pune venue: This is a solo written competition consisting of 8 sections (of 30 qns each) to be solved in 2 hours. Date: 5th June 2010 (Saturday) Time: Report by 3:30 pm. Quiz starts sharp at 4 pm, ends at 6 pm. Answers & Scoring will follow immediately. Venue: Symbiosis Law School Auditorium, Symbiosis Law School, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune - 411004 Registration: Prior registration is mandatory to ensure your seat. Only very few extra answer sheets will be available for "on the spot" registrations, so confirmation is necessary. Registration is free & open to all. To register, please contact the local coordinator as follows: Pune Coordinator: Suvajit Chakraborty (+919370124365,chakrabortysuvajit at gmail dot com) For the quiz format, visit this link .

The announcement for this year's Mahaquizzer follows. A short summary (with Pune venue details) is as follows: When: 30 May (Sunday), 9 am onwards (timing to be confirmed) Where in Pune: Landmark, SGS Mall, Moledina Road, Pune To register: write to mahaquizzer@gmail.com with Pune in the subject line (since the venue may only has limited seating, it is recommended that you register in advance, by 23rd May). Prizes: for the best quizzer, lady quizzer, school quizzer, college quizzer; as usual, the BCQC will sponsor additional prizes in some of these categories. Note: the venue will not have desks, so you may want to get a writing pad along with your pen. The full announcement from the KQA: We will hold the sixth edition of Mahaquizzer across 14 cities on Sunday, 30 May 2010. The cities where centres are being offered are Bangalore , Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Guwahati, Panaji, Thrissur, Mysore and Coimbatore . If we are able to obtain...

Date: 9 May 2010 Set and Conducted by: Suraj Menon Format: Teams of 2 for elims. About 20 teams participated. 30 questions written elims. Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams chosen by finalist teams as draft picks. Teams of 3 for finals. Finals: 1 written theme for free hit. 48 questions IR with round reversal Results 1st: Team E - Salil Bijur, Aniket Khasgiwale and Nikhil Kumar Verma (draft) - 150pts 2nd: Team C - Niranjan Pedanekar, Aditya Gadre and Sameer Deshpande (subst. Arnold D'Souza) (draft)- 130pts 3rd: Team D - Kunal Sawardekar, Venkat Srinivasan and Gurudatt Bhobe (draft) - 120pts 4th: Team B - J. Ramanand, Yasho Tamaskar and Subhashish Das (draft) - 110pts 5th: Team F - Aditya Chandorkar + 1 + Vaibhav Bajpai (draft) - 95pts 6th: Team A - Prasanna Kumar, Rahul Nayak and Vikram Keskar(draft) - 80pts Please leave your opinions in the comments section.

Date: 9 May 2010 Set and Conducted by: Aniket Khasgiwale Format: Teams of 2 for elims. About 20 teams participated. 25 questions written elims. Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams chosen by finalist teams as draft picks. Teams of 3 for finals. Finals: 48 questions IR with round reversal Results 1st: Team F - Kunal Sawardekar, Yasho Tamaskar and Subhashish Das (draft) - 125pts 2nd: Team A - Prasanna Kumar, Rahul Nayak and Anand Viswanathan (draft)- 65pts 3rd: Team B - Salil Bijur, Suvojit Chakraborty and Vikram Keskar (draft) - 65pts 4th: Team C - J. Ramanand, B.V. Harishkumar and Gurudatt Bhobe (draft) - 60pts 5th: Team D - Aditya Gadre, Suraj Menon and Sameer Deshpande (draft) - 60pts 6th: Team E - Rashmi Machado, Jaspreet Rikhraj and Bharath S (draft) - 35pts Please leave your opinions in the comments section.

When: Fri, Apr 30, 2010. Location: Extentia ITT, Rd 12, Kalyani Nagar QM: Venkat Srinivasan First round: BCQC set email quiz sent to all employees Monday. Rohan Nakar a regular topper got all 14.5/15 correct. 4 way tie for 2nd at 14. Theme: General Participants split into 4 teams of about 4 each IR with 25 questions 21/25 questions answered by teams Notes: Competitive quiz where all teams scored above 3 points each. Loads of applause for several questions. Several 'difficult' questions solved by all teams. Winners: Team 1 led by Chetan Shetty, VP, Operations Runners up: Team 3 led by Prashant Main, SEO Coordinator Prizes: Crossword vouchers in various denominations for all winners. Report by Venkat Earlier Extentia quizzes here