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Date: Dec 24 2010, at Extentia, KP, Pune Set and conducted by Suraj Menon/BCQC Theme : General Event held a week earlier on account of New Year’s weekend next week. As always an email quiz was sent to Extentians earlier in the week. Answers and winners announced ahead of Fri's quiz. Winners determined by # of correct answers and timestamp of email. Winner: Vcat Finals: Decent turnout. Teams were again formed from the Extentia houses. Five in all. Teams : Spartans, Royal Brigade, Parikrama, Constant Variables and Infinity. Format : IR with 25 questions. * Keenly contested quiz with all the usual shrill sledging between teams * The Royal Brigade led from the beginning, and the Spartans ran them close. * Most questions (22/25) were answered and all teams had points on the board mid-quiz. * Several connect questions were worked out by the top three teams * Topics currently in the news featured in many questions * Several new faces among participants! Winne...

OK, so this is the deal. I used to quiz with same folks who bore you with all the inane details of their latest mercenary exploits at some gender-confused engineering college  in town -- hell, I even used to go to those quizzes. Religiously. And lose. But, hey, that's not the point. I was one of the cool folk, the creator of the Centaurian Scoring System   rivaled in length of existence only by the sperm whale and the bowl of petunias . So that's by way of introduction. Since having quit my self-carpentered chair of crazy-new-quizzing-ideas (Chief Innovation Officer?) at the BCQC, I have to moved on, to frankly more useful endeavors. In an effort to distance myself from the effluvial delights of the boat club and its charmingly green waters, I have drained myself and my brain to the US. To MIT , Cambridge, USA more specifically. Old habits die hard, so my Wednesday nights are spent quizzing. Or trying to quiz. You see, a hankering for mind numbingly pointless convol...

Date: 12 Dec, 2010 Venue: COEP Conducted by: Vishwajeet Narvekar for the KQA No. of Teams: 10 Results: Open Category winners: Suraj, Ramanand, Harish, Suvajit: 32 points College winners: Rohan Prabhu, Omkar Moghe, Shreevallabh Gharote, Sameer Patil (COEP): 12 points Thanks to Aadinath and Mohit of COEP for making the arrangements. Prizes sponsored by Tender Leaves (Pune's newest Book Service++) and BCQC. Update: 30 Dec 2010 The overall results and the questions+answers are available at the KQA site here .

*  Team  of (upto) 4 people *  Venue:  Seminar Hall II (Next to main Auditorium), College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), Shivajinagar, Pune-5  College coordinator:  Mohit Karve (9890777964 ;  mohit@bcqc.org ) *  Timing:  2:30 to 5:30 on  12th December (Sunday) *  General  Written Quiz * Prizes  for the top 2 best teams, college teams, school teams (sponsored by BCQC) *  Entries  received so far will appear on  http://bit.ly/ezwhDq Please read below for the details. Since the venue can only accommodate about 30 teams, you are advised to register in advance by writing to the organisers as given below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From:  Arul Mani   < arul.mani@gmail.com > This is to announce the second edition of Mega-Whats, our National Open Quizzing Championship. The quiz will be held across nine cities simultaneously. Apart from Bangalore, we have  venue co...