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Floyd and Charles belled the Quiz-ire cat with Dhake and Pranav Pawar(PP) on 2nd, Rahul Mohanty and me(Gokul) on 3rd.  The prelims were easy and approachable, it was easier to compare scores by how much one missed rather than how much one got. There were 20 questions, with some questions being more equal than the others (read: multiple parts and points). There was an obligatory question with an answer as Caravan referencing the IISER event Karavan where the quiz was held. Top 6 teams qualified for the finals, with possibly the highest cut-offs for any quiz. Apart the above 3 teams, we had Divij+? from COEP, Rohini+Harshad from IISER and an AFMC team.  Finals had 2 Long connects(which was 1 too many IMO!) sandwiched between 2 infinite bounce rounds with pounce. The ranks remained steady (with the top 3 teams staying on top) barring a few surges due to a freakish long connect scoring.  PROS: Overall, excellent content and hosting. Clearly, the setters had ...

QM’s – Vrushabh Gudade & Mihir Mogra 1 st Place – Chinmay Tadwalkar & Divij Ghose (140 points) 2 nd Place – Deepak Chandel & Joel D’Souza (120 points) 3 rd Place – Akshay Parale & Omkar Borate (105 points) 4 th Place – Avaneendra Bhargava & Nikhil Motlag (95 points) 5 th Place – Pranav Joshi & Deven Deshpande (60 points) 6 th Place – Rohan Tikoo and his partner (55 points) Report written by – Omkar Borate An Open Biz – Quiz, which was organized by CoEP BHAU’s E – Cell, as a part of their E Weekend, took place at Academic Complex, CoEP on 23 rd October, 2016. The quiz had some really nice and workable fundaes, barring few peters and hence was a nice quiz overall. The QM’s were novices and being an open quiz, they were pried upon by the seasoned quizzers, due to which they lost control of the proceedings at times, for which they made up by putting up a fantastic set of workable questions. Also, the turnout was quite low considering...

'Q' at ILS Law College- 3/9/16 QM(s): Sruthi and Shravya Darbhamulla Post-quiz discussion. SCENE : A dimly lit room. Like the BJ auditorium (the backdrop for further SCENES). Pizza slices and empty pizza boxes lying around. A mobile screen with cheesy Thumbprints open on an incomplete review oN Zomato. Pranav 'Floyd' Joshi (hereinafter referred to as 'Floyd' for the purpose of brevity and convenience): "I felt it was a good quiz. Good fundae." He takes a pause. An ominous pause. "However. . . framing needs a lot of help. Sravya / sruthi lost control of the proceeding." Unpausing and ceaseless, he continued ". . . and a quizmaster should never let that happen." However, an optimist at his cholesterol filled heart, he says in the same laboured breath, "With more experience of hosting they should get better at this. I enjoyed."    ENTER : A dashing young gentleman, hurriedly closing the door behind his cohorts of...

Host: BITS Hyderabad Proctor: Omkar Dhakephalkar Results: 1st Place Finals Score: 122.5 Institution: College of Engineering, Pune  Divij Ghose Dhanajay Jagtap 2nd Place Finals Score: 117.5 Institution: Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce Shantanu G Shantanou P 3rd -  Charles and Pranav: (95) (Modern+PICT) 4th -  Anirudh Anil Kumar Arnabh Sengupta: (90) (AFMC) 5th -  Omkar Joshi and Hithvik Jha: (65) (AFMC+COEP) 6th - Akshay Parale and Omkar Borate: (32.5) (COEP) 7th - Suraj Prabhudesai and Shubhankar Panse: (27.5) (PVG+PICT)  8th - Pranav Rao and Ashwin Subramanian: (20) Report - Written by Divij Ghose, CoEP Tl;dr : A MELA Quiz disguised as a General Quiz. Some great fundaes, some poorly framed questions but all in all an enjoyable quiz and a great effort by the BPHC Quiz Club. The Quiz: Pune regional qualifier of BPHC’s Enigma Quiz. Pune was not one of the cities in which the quiz was originally supposed to be co...

The Technical festival  College Of Engineering Pune  hosted a set of three mega quizzes from 23 rd  –25 th  September. The quizzes each year draw a variety of audience with a taste of everything for everyone. Torquest  - The Sci-Tech Quiz QM - Divij Ghose Set By - Ipshita Paul & Divij Ghose Winners - Shantanu G. and Shantanu P. (BMCC)               Known for its status quo of hi-tech fundas and you-know-it-or-you-don’t questions, Torquest ’16 had been an interesting affair. The 21 question Prelims with 4 two part questions seemed tough, the quiz had high-school familiar scientists fundas and relatively easy tech questions, with the very first question bearing the answer ‘Torque’! The two-part questions and long framing added to the difficulty of the Elims and the teams were seen tickling their brains.  The quiz had a participation of more than 85 teams which jam packed the Mini Auditorium. Finals went smo...

Report- Qonnoisseur 2016, CoEP MELA college Quiz Report written by Pranjal Gupta, AFMC. Set by: Dhananjay Jagtap and Rohan Tickoo Conducted by : Rohan Tickoo Date: 24th September 2016 RESULTS 1st - Pranjal Gupta and Rishabh Mehta(AFMC) 2nd - Pranav Joshi(Modern College) and Charles(PICT) 3rd - Arnabh Sengupta and Anirudh Anilkumar(AFMC) PRELIMS-  Thanks to the previous day's events, it was a relief that the Prelims started on time. (Quiz was delayed by 3 and a half hours the previous day) Only 20 questions though, with some nice questions on Moulin Rouge, Kahlil Gibran, Greta Garbo mixed with easy ones like Feluda and a few from the Marathi category. But some of the  weirdly framed questions on 'Take Me To Church' and the Grauman's Egyptian Theatre(yup, not the Chinese!) combined with no part points on offer reduced the cut off to 6. FINALS The finals began with a written round on Simpson movie references, and teams generally scored well with two teams ...

Report is written by Anmol Dhawan from AFMC. Quizzasm, General Quiz  at BJ Govt Medical College, Pune Date: 11th September 2016 QM - Omkar Dhakephalkar RESULTS 1st - Anmol Dhawan & Pranjal Gupta (AFMC) 2nd - Anirudh Anilkumar & Hritvik Jha (AFMC) 3rd - Omkar Borate & his partner (COEP) Other qualifiers - Sruthi & Sravya Darbhamulla (ILS Law College), and one team each from BJMC & SKNMC. REVIEW - Anmol Dhawan & Pranjal Gupta Prelims - generally easy workable questions. Omkar had obviously toned it down from his usual quizzes at ILS/BCQC allowing for easier guessing. Questions were good, well framed and fundas were nice too. Finals - again a great set. We felt there were some sitters in the finals which probably could have been asked in the prelims instead (new iPhone not having headphone jacks, Canonisation of Mother Teresa, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory etc). Could have been more representative - there weren't many questions from l...

Set by Omkar Borate and Aman Shaikh Conducted by Aman Shaikh Format: 25 question elims followed by a 32 question final on IR Attended by ~ 100 teams Results: 1st: Aniket Khasgiwale and Aditya Gadre : 85 pts 2nd: Anannya Deb and Maitreyi Gupta: 75 pts 3rd: Vibhendu Tewari and Avaneendra Bhargav : 70 pts 4th: Abhinav Dasgupta and Shubhankar Gokhale: 65 pts 5th: Venkat Srinivasan and Samrat Sengupta: 60 pts 6th: Omkar Dhakephalkar and Pranav Pawar: 40 pts The quiz started with a 25 question elim. The questions were a bit long and while workable, they could have been crisper. Some questions in the elims were totally know it or you don't. Overall the set was competent. The highest score was 19 while the cut off was 13.5 with one star The finals had 32 questions on Infinite rebounds with half passing clockwise and the other half anti clockwise. The questions themselves were good and one notable point that the QMs should be proud of is that there were almost no Gawd awf...

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 24 question Finals played over two legs (home and away) to determine the winner.  Report:  The elims were slightly easier than the previous year with more participants making double digits. Shrirang topped the elims with 14 points. The cut off was 8.5 with two stars. The field was quite strong and the youngsters Snehasis Panda and Rishwin Jackson put in a great performance to qualify for the Quarter finals. Seasoned sports quizzers Anand Sivashankar, Harish Kumar, Kaushik Koley, Sameer Deshpande and Deepanjan Deb all narrowly missed out on qualification.  The Quarter Finals: The Quarter finalists were Shrirang Raddi, Venkatraghavan S (aka Ingit Sir), Snehasis Panda, Shubhankar  Gokhale, Anurag...

The BC Cup is  the BCQC's annual solo, open, loooooooong quiz to crown the Best Sports Quizzer in Pune, perhaps Maharshtra (probably India). This is the eight edition.  Format:       First, a 30 question prelim 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. The top two then go to the Final where they  face off one-on one for a 24 question final.  The top college finisher (UG only, we may ask for ID cards) will get a prize in addition to all the top eight open finishers Administrivia     QMs:  Yash Marathe, Aniket Khasgiwale and Aditya Gadre Theme:  Sports Teams:  Individual Restrictions:  (or the lack of one) Open quiz. Everyone is welcome When?   12:45 pm ,  Saturday, 7th May, 2016 Where?  The Boat Club, College of Engi...

Shyam Bhatt Open Quiz 2016 Set by J Ramanand, BV Harish Kumar and the Choose to Thinq team Conducted by J Ramanand (with a little help from Deven Deshpande) Results:  1st: Shrirang Raddi and Aditya Gadre :185 pts 2nd: Abhinav Dasgupta and Shubhankar Gokhale: 145 pts 3rd: Balakrishnan satyam and Rahul Kottalgi: 140 pts 4th: Omkar Dhakephalkar and Pranav Pawar: 100 pts 5th: Meghashyam Shirodkar and Varun Suresh: 75 pts 6th: Anurakshat Gupta and Kaushik Chatterji: 65 pts 7th: Rohan Danait and Anand: 60 pts 8th: Aman Sheikh and Divij Ghosh: 40 pts Report: The 30th edition of the oldest quiz in Pune, started with a 30 question elim, divided into three sections of quicks (short questions), deliberates (longer questions) and two pointers (well, two parts per question for a point each). Overall I liked the elim for the fundaes it covered, but felt it was a bit too tough. The cut off was 14/35 and the top score was 22/35. On the content, my general feeling was that a lot o...

BC InFest 2016 went off quite smoothly and as usual there were some great quizzes and more importantly a lot of laughs and general merriment. Here is what happened:  (All reports by Aniket Khasgiwale) Day 1: InFestYouUs InFestYouUs 2016 in its shorter avatar saw 22 people take part on topics of their choice (some even took part in topics not of their choice as some people didn't show up) This time, InFest took place in a room and not on BC lawns which IMO took away from the "mob effect". None-the-less the quizzes were enjoyable - with no set being inordinately difficult or easy skewing the results.   Kunal justified his military god tag was on target for 7 of his 10 questions on Fighter Aircraft of the Cold War to finish with the top score. Results (only scores above 5/10) Kunal Sawardekar (Fighter Aircraft of the Cold War) - 7 points  Omkar Yarguddi (Sitar in Hinudstani Classical Music) - 6 points Sampuran Singh (Fla...

This is the schedule for InFest 2016: Saturday, January 16th: 10 AM - 1:30 PM: InFestYouUs: the quiz where you take on the mob in your topic of specialty. The participants and topics are as follows:  1:30 PM - 2:30 PM: Lunch break 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM: A quiz by Omkar Dhakephalkar Sunday, January 17th: 10 AM - 12 PM: An Unreal Quiz by Aditya Gadre 12 PM - 1 PM: Lunch break 1 PM - 3 PM: The autobiographical quiz. QMs Navin Sharma, VCat, Kunal Sawardekar and Avaneendra Bhargav will ask a few questions based on things they have seen or done over the last one year. 3 PM - 5 PM: Jai Hind Jai Maharashtra by Aniket Khasgiwale. An India quiz with a special emphasis on my homeland of Maharashtra. Other administrivia: The venue for all quizzes will be the Boat Club at the College of Engineering, Pune. Teams, if at all, for all quizzes will be made on the spot. All quizzes are open to everyone, so feel free to drop by and attend the quizzes. In case of an...