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" Abhimanyu " is the annual solo contest for COEP's quizzers. This began with a preliminary round held last year, from which 6 quizzers qualified. The final was delayed for several months and was finally held in May 2014. The finalists took part in a common written general round, which was followed by a Mastermind-style set of specialities (picked in advance). The General round was set by Ramanand, while the 6 specialities were set by the previous Abhimanyu winner, Gautam Akiwate. Results: Winner: Payas Awadhutkar (4 + 10), topic: Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2nd: Vibhav Bhave (7+4.5), topic: Downton Abbey 3rd: Rujul Godse (4.5+6), topic: Current Affairs 4th: Rohan Danait (6+2), topic: Quentin Tarantino 5th: Chinmay Tadwalkar, topic: Lok Sabha elections 6th: Omkar Yarguddi, topic: Scrubs Season II Payas had a sensationally perfect 2nd round to clinch the title. List of winners so far 2001 - Rahul Srinivas - Asterix Comics 2002 - Sumeet Kulkarni - Formula-One 2003 - ...

City results from the KQA Mindsweep written quiz (scores reported as follows: best 8 sections, all 10 sections): 1. Rahul Kottalgi (76, 90) 2. Aditya Gadre (53, 59) 3. Suraj Menon (52, 58) 4. Samrat Sengupta (38, 42) 5. Gaurav Sabnis (32, 37) 13 people attempted the quiz in Pune.

Set and Conducted by Gaurav Sabnis Flavour: General Format: Written elims of 35 questions + Finals of 48 questions Results: 1st: Suraj Menon, Aditya Gadre and Divij Ghose 2nd: Samrat Sengupta, Navin Sharma and Srisha Haridas 3rd: Venkat S, Arnold D'Souza, Vibhav Bhave Other finalists: Kunal Sawardekar, Gokul, Supreeth Ravish ;  J Ramanand, Samridh Kapur, Rohan Danait;  Avinash Mudaliar, Rahul Suhas Kottalgi, Utsab Saha The quiz started with an interesting "old fashioned" pen and paper elims with a wide range of scores - the top scorers had 25/ 35 while the 9th team had 12/ 25 The finals had 48 questions - 42 general questions with 6 questions on a Dissertations  The finals were light and interested, peppered of course with some stuff which none of us had a clue about, but overall , a very good quiz by Gaurav  who made it look like he's almost not been out of mainstream Indian quizzing for 8 years.  Just a few peters, very interesting fundaes, very...

Set by Aniket Khasgiwale, Yash Marathe and Aditya Gadre Format:  30 question elim to determine the 8 quarter finalists. Then a 60 question quarter final to determine the top 4 i.e. the semi finalists. A 40 question Semi final to narrow down to the top 2 in the finals. A 28 question Finals played over two legs (home and away) to determine the winner. Report:  The quiz started with a 30 qn elims set - the elim seemed much simpler this year and we had a lot of people crossing double digits. Defending Champion Ramkey topped the elims with a phenomenal 21 pts. Ramanand cleared the elims but had to leave so he gave up his spot. The Cut off was 13.5 - with Venkatraghavan (aka Venky) beating Kaushik Koley in a tiebreaker to enter the Quarter finals. The Quarter Finals: The Quarter finalists were : Shrirang Raddi, Ramkey, Suraj Menon,  Shubhankar Gokhale,  Suvajit Chakraborty, Prithwish Datta,  Venky and Anannya Deb  The Quarters were very even till the...