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Presenting the BCQC's more-or-less annual more-or-less quizzing anti-fest: The BC InFest also known as BCQC.orgy! InFest 2016 will take place on the 16th and 17th of January at the Boat Club, COEP. For those who have no clue about InFest (i.e. all but 6 of the people reading this) - its this thing where we organize a lot of fun stuff over one weekend - some great QMs will be conducting interesting quizzes AND we have InFestYouUs InFestYouUs is o ne of our main events at InFest.  It is a mastermind style event to crown the person who has the least amount of work to do in real life and can win a quiz in his topic of specialisation against a mob of quizzers.  This time we will be running a shorter, version of InFestYouUs which will take place on Saturday,16th Jan, 2016 at 10am. The format is as follows: Each person chooses a topic of their interest. The taker would be asked 10 questions. The taker will be awarded 1 point for getting a question right. If missed, th...

This Sunday (25th) saw the BCQC October Open being conducted at Extentia in Kalyani Nagar. The event consisted of two quizzes with an impressive contrast in QMs – a short written quiz by post-Aashiqui (post-HAHK even) Pranav “Floyd” Joshi followed by the main Gen quiz by pre-CHOGM Samrat Sengupta. QUIZ 1: Name: What's In A Name? Maybe There's Something In a Name QM: Pranav "Floyd" Joshi Style: Written (20 questions) Flavor: General Results: 1. Aditya Gadre + Arnold D'Souza (16) 2. Omkar Dhakephalkar + Pranav Pawar (12.5) 3. Shivam Sharma + Suraj Prabhu (11.5) 4. Samrat Sengupta + Gokul (10) 5. Vineet Chaurasia + Sampooran Singh (9.5) 6. Divij + Dhananjay (9) This was originally billed as a quiz with no proper nouns in any of the answers. This is an interesting idea and automatically forces the setter to frame questions in a more "work-out-able" structure. However, for certain reasons unknown to us, the QM decided at the last minute...

Set and Conducted by Chinmay Tadwalkar Attended by ~100 teams Format: Written elims of 25 questions. Finals comprising 32 questions on Infinite Rebounds and a 6 question written theme round  Results: 1st:  Aniket Khasgiwale & Aditya Gadre:  185 pts 2nd: Kunal Sawardekar & Arnold D'Souza: 170 pts 3rd: J Ramanand & Debanjan Bose: 130 pts Jt 4th: Omkar Dhakephalkar & Pranav Pawar: 80 pts Jt 4th: Suraj Prabhu & Rohan Danait: 80 pts 6th: Uday Bansal & KN Chakraborty: 75 pts An good solid quiz put up by Chinmay.  The quiz started with a 25 question written elims. The elims was a close affair with all of the teams that qualified bunched in the 13.5 to 17 bracket. I felt most of the questions were based on nice fundas but were not sufficiently clued - making the elim a bit more "seasoned quizzer friendly" than is ideal. The finals had 2 rounds of 16 questions each on Infinite bounce - with 5 pounces per half at +10/-10  The cont...

Quiz 1: Pop Culture Quiz by Kunal Sawardekar Format: Written quiz with 26 questions. Every question carried 2 points. Teams had the option of pouncing on questions by "staring" them. The scoring was as follows:  +3/-1 if number of starred question was less than 10;  +3/-2 for 10-20 questions starred, and +3/-3 for more than 20 questions starred Results: 1st: Shivam Sharma and Pranav Pawar: 49 pts 2nd: Shantanu G and Shantanu P: 45 pts 3rd: Vikram Joshi and Suraj Prabhu: 43 pts The quiz was a nice one, but to be brutally honest - not up to what i expected from Kunal - especially given how mind-blastingly brilliant his last pop culture quiz was . Positives: - There were a few brilliant questions that had everyone spontaneously clapping - There was a lot of AV content which made the quiz fun to go through Negatives: - Unlike the last quiz there were few questions which could be genuinely be worked out - I also felt there were a few too many questions on Vid...

Anurakshat Gupta conducted a general quiz on 23rd of August as a part of the BCQC August Open at Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC). This quiz was conducted in two parts ie. the Preliminary round and Final Round for the Top-6 teams from the prelims. Results : 1st : Kunal Sawardekar, Arnold D'Souza and Shivam Sharma - 100 2nd : Anmol Dhawan, Ashwin Mahesh and Nikhil Joseph - 90 3rd : Suchishree Chatterjee, Kaushik Chatterjee and Rohan Setlur - 70 4th: Venkat Shrinivasan, Rohan Danait and Deven Deshpande - 20 5th: Uday Bansal, Khagendra Chakravarti and Saraswat Chatterjee - 20 6th: Pranav Pawar, Debopriyo Maulik and VG Sreeram - -10 Comments  : The prelims started out at exactly 1605 hours as was told by Anurakshat Gupta before the small break between his quiz and the previous quiz. The questions were interesting with a certain bias on History/Geography, thus building the tidings for a HisGeoHeavy quiz. Prelims had many descriptive questions with answers being either a Country ...

Arnold D'Souza conducted a 30-question written quiz on topics of not-so-general general interest on 23 August 2015 at the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune as part of the BCQC's August Open Quizzes. Results : 1st: Anurakshat Gupta & Kunal Sawardekar - 370 pts 2nd: Venkat Srinivasan & Rohan Danait - 180 pts 3rd: Suchishree & Kaushik Chatterjee - 170 pts 3rd: Gokul Panigrahi & Shayak Chatterjee - 170 pts 5th: Anmol Dhawan & Ashwin Mahesh - 155 pts 6th: Deven & Shivam - 140 pts Report: This was a quiz that was clearly billed from the get-go as being heavy on the QM's own interests, and within those bounds, it was fun and very interesting. Participants hoping for a wide coverage of topics would have been disappointed though - the only India-related question was on cricket, and none of the answers were Faiz Ahmed Faiz. The questions were (IMO) framed well, and despite the QM's professed admiration for Kolstylz questions (i.e. question...

Ready to make history? Participate in the world's first* ever posters quiz on Sat, 29 Aug. Venue: COEP Academic Block Time: 1:30 pm Format: written prelims, followed by a 6-team final. Some college student teams will get to be part of the final. Theme: a movie & TV quiz through the lens of posters. Attending the quiz? Join the event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/973328172708443/?ref=4&action_history=null * this may be a completely false claim.

(Report by Arnold D'Souza) The July Open was held on Sunday the 26th of July, 2015 at the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC). The even consisted of two quizzes—one general and one themed. GEN QUIZ: Set by: Saraswat Chatterjee and Rohan Setlur Teams: 14 teams of 2 – (6 qualify for finals) – no draft picks. Final Result: 1st – Anurakshat Gupta + Madhusadan (120) 2nd – Debanjan Bose + Suraj Prabhu (115) 3rd – Arnold D'Souza + Anjali Jospeh (95) 4th – Samrat Sengupta + Aniketh Rallabhandi (85) 5th – Shantanu + Shantanu (60) 6th – Gokul (25) Comments: The elims were an interesting change from the standard written format. There were 15 questions all of which were only on a pounce for +10/-5 each. In effect, this was like a written elims where you got -5 for a wrong answer but had the option to leave a question blank without any loss. However, since the live scores were being kept on the blackboard, this meant that one could strategically decide on each question t...

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. We ditched the college finals due to lack of turnout. Report:  The quiz started with a 30 qn elims set which turned out to be quite tough with all contestants claiming they wont qualify at the end! Venkatraghavan (ie Ingit Sir) topped with a phenomenal 16.5 pts and Shrirang too put in a strong performance with 13.5 pts. The others were bunched up around 10 points, with Rohit Suresh just making the cut above Suraj with 9 points. A lot of good quizzers were on 8 or 8.5 points - Suraj, Kaushik, Atul, Samridh and Parijat (who also won the College section) which shows how strong the field was this year. The Quarter Finals: The Quart...

The BC Cup is  the BCQC's annual solo, open quiz to crown the Best Sports Quizzer. This is the seventh edition.  Format:       First, a 30 question elim determines 8 qualifiers (or Quarter Finalists). These 8 people take part in a 60 question quarter final. The top four go through to the semi final. The semi-final will consist of 36 questions with scoring reset to zero. This is to keep the 'winning three consecutive matches' concept constant from last year's edition. The top two then go to the Final where they  face off one-on one for a 28 question final.  This year we are introducing an  additional round for the top 4 college quizzers  who do not qualify for the Open section.  There will be a 24 question "College final" for these 4 college quizzers between the Quarter finals and the Semi finals of the Open Section  Administrivia     QMs:  Yash Marathe, Aniket Khasgiwale and Aditya Gadre Theme: ...

Quiz 1: Business Quiz  Set and Conducted by BV Harish Kumar  Format: Written elims of 20 questions. Finals comprising 24 questions on Infinite Rebounds in four Quarters and a 4 question written round  Results: 1st: Arnold D'Souza, Ajay Ragde and Anway: 115 pts 2nd: Raghav C, Sachin Ravi and Suraj: 110 pts 3rd: Saswat, Alok and Omkar Dhakephalkar: 105 pts 4th: Shantanu G, Shantanu P and Anurag G: 100 pts 5th: Karthik, Shivam and Pranav Pawar: 80 pts 6th: Kunal Sawardekar, Samrat Sengupta and Pranav Joshi: 65 pts The quiz was light and interesting with a nice mix of biz fundaes and general trivia with a Business bent. Harish covered a lot of topics and even distributed a "buzzword bingo" sheet in the audience as an innovative way to take feedback on the topics covered. I really liked the quiz for the fact that it moved away from standard business tropes and did not require one to memorise faces of CXOs. BVHK showed that good business quizzes with workoutable quest...

We will have our annual quiz anti-fest on 3rd and 4th Jan 2015. All events will take place at the Boat Club, College of Engineering Pune The schedule is as follows: