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Report by Avaneendra What: Inquizitive General Quiz, Fergusson College When: 24 Jan, 2012 QM: Suraj Prabhu Questions set by: Suraj Prabhu and Ruchik More Results 1st: Akshay Vaidya & Gautam Sondur : 177 (won on tie-breaker):Team 3 2nd: Ranajeet Soman & Rohan Jain : 177 : Team 5 3rd: Avaneendra Bhargav & Samir Deshpande : 170 : Team 2 4th: Rohan Danait & Siddhartha Phule : 145 : Team 6 5th: CVR Shastry & Tushar Jha : 103 : Team 1 6th: Rohit Sahasrabudhe & Satyavrat Wagle : 90 : Team 4 Results Quiz started at 11.15 AM. Elimination round had 31 questions. Thirty first question was identifying the theme. Cut off was 12. It was a good college quiz biased towards pop culture. Quiz master intended to avoid tie break at the end hence he had random scoring system for lvcs and svcs. In all finals had 4 written rounds and 2 IR (with 3+3 pounces per team).

When: 15 Jan 2012 Where: COEP What: Sports Quiz, part of COEP Zest Conducted by: Rohan Danait and Vibhav Bhave Results: 1st: Omkar Nene and his partner: 125 2nd: Ranajeet Soman and Sameer Deshpande: 90 3rd: Vikram Keskar and his partner: 80 pts 4th: Rohit Sahasrabudhe and Alok Kulkarni 5th: Rishi Deshpande and his partner 6th: Aniketh Rallabhandi and his partner Got feedback or can fill up the missing info to complete this report? Use the comments for this post.

It's rather strange to be one of those visiting a BC session from pastures of a greenish hue elsewhere, given the fond memories of welcoming the stalwarts every December while I was still an earnest COEP lad, clad occasionally in that surprisingly office-worthy grey and white uniform. But attend a BC session is exactly that I did, when I showed up on Sunday afternoon at the BC for the first time in two years. I arrived 20 minutes after announced time, but tardiness standards seemed to have only gotten worse. Quorum of about 7-8 people was achieved only by 2:20 or so (I was the second person on the scene) and questions for the day were being set by Avaneendra, a face who I have gotten to know recently as someone whose enthusiasm for the sport is second only to the great Dada who many here will fondly remember (he finally graduated!). But apart from Suraj there was no really familiar faces -- and a few were completely new. Part of the charm of these old visits would be the Old Stalw...

Quoting from the BCQC Facebook Group: CoEP is organising a inter-college sports quiz as a part of its sports fest Zest'12. When: 15th Jan Where: Room 6 (Seminar Hall 2),CoEP Time: 10 am More details at this link (you can disregard the team formation rules, which are a result of using the overall sports competition template).

When: 8th Jan, 2012 Where: SCIT, Pune (many thanks to the institute and Nikhil Motlag for arranging the venue) What: a solo general written quiz by the KQA Results: Debanjan Bose (SIMC) and Hari Nair (SIBM): 26, Joint winners in Open and College categories. Please see this KQA page for results and the quiz (coming in a couple of days).

Mindsweep 2012 is the first edition of the KQA's International Solo Championship. When : 8th Jan, 2012 (Sunday) Reporting Time : 9:30 am; must be seated by 9:45 am; Quiz will begin at 10:00 am sharp. The organisers have asked that no one be allowed into the hall after 10:00 am. How long : ~2.5 hours (includes time for checking answers) Where :  Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology (SCIT), Plot 15, Rajiv Gandhi InfoTech Park, Hinjawadi, Phase 1 Nearby Landmarks: 1 km from Infosys Circle and next door to Cognizant Tech. Solutions and I2IT Pune – 411057 Format : General Solo quiz. For details, please  see this link . Proctor : J Ramanand (contact: 9764258560) Prizes : For Best quizzers in the Open, College, School, and Ladies categories. For Runners-up in the Open category. C ollege and school students must carry valid ID to be considered for their respective categories. Prizes sponsored by the BCQC. Note for unregistered participants: you will be p...

COEP's Mindspark 2011 saw three quizzes in the last week of December. Here're the results (compiled by Himanshu Panandikar). If you have any comments on the quizzes, please use the comments option. Chakravyuh Set by Himanshu Panandikar and Gaurav Keskar with inputs from Aditya Gadre, Mohit Karve, Neelima Jha, Mihir Khatwani, Amit Patil, Vibhav Bhave and Ashutosh Bokhare. Questions reviewed and moderated by Aditya Gadre, Mohit Karve and Aadinath Harihar Theme: General Date/Venue: 28th December 2011, College of Engineering, Pune Format: 30 Question Elims, 48 Question Finals (24 IR + 24 IR Rev) Total Teams: 171 Results: 1st Place: Yash Marathe and Meghashyam Shirodkar (Team F) [Elims: 22.5 (4*) || Finals: 80] 2nd Place: Vinit Atel and Vikram Keskar (Team C) [Elims: 21.5 (3*) ||Finals: 75] 3rd Place: Hari S. Nair and Suraj Menon (Team B) [Elims: 22.5 (3*) || Finals: 70] 4th Place: Nandan Gokhle and Samit Sura (Team E) [Elims: 21 (3*) || Finals: 65] 5th Place: Ksh...