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Quiz: Imperio Flavour: Open Biz Quiz Date: 9 April 2017 Venue: BHAU Institute, COEP QM: Vrushabh Gudade Results: 1st: Shantanou Gangakhedkarr  and Saahil Sharma (210 points) 2nd: Aranbh Sengupta  and Anirudh Anilkumar (150 points) 3rd: Omkar Borate  and Deven Deshpande (140 points) The venue was the posh newly constructed BHAU’s auditorium at COEP campus. The Prelims started on time with the organisers handing over the certificates at the beginning of the quiz itself. There were around 25 teams participating in the quiz. The elims set consisted of 18 questions only, with 13 one pointers and 5 two pointers each. The questions were quite easy with almost all participating teams at similar scores. The finals had 8 teams consisting of both open and college teams. The finals consisted of a total of 24 question on IR separated by a written round of 6 questions. The first quarter of the quiz was quite easy with all teams answering...

Date: 10 th & 11 th December, 2016 Quiz:   Lumiere Venue: COEP Fest:    Impressions 2016, COEP Cultural Fest QMs: Akshay Parale & Omkar Borate Results: 1 st – Arnabh Sengupta & Anirudh Anilkumar, AFMC 2 nd – Pranav ‘Floyd’ Joshi & Charles Matthews, Modern+PICT 3 rd – Pranjal Gupta & Rishabh Mehta, AFMC 4 th – Shantanou Gangakhedkarr & Shantanu Pant 5 th – Dhruv Sahastrabuddhe + 1 6 th – Ankit & Anurag Choudhary, PICT The quiz was spread over two days i.e. Elims on 10 th and Finals on 11 th . In a closely contested elims the cutoff was 17.5, with the highest score being 22.5. Next day, we were greeted by Abbott and Costello on Arrival (From Arrival) and taken on a b(+p)ouncy ride by the Quizmasters Akshay Parale & Omkar Borate. It was a quiz that kept us on the edge of our seats with repeated pounces and close competition between the teams in the finals. With all teams playing all out from...

Venue: PICT QM: Ankit Chaudhary and brother, Charles Matthews Date: 24/3/17 Sustainability was the name of the game, and many thanks to our intrepid quizmasters for allowing us to sustain our attempts at quizzing by allowing a generous general flavour to creep into the quiz. A very workoutable preliminary round coupled with generous hints and a thankfully non pedantic QM (which is rampant among certain quizmasters nowadays) meant that the finals were fun. With questions spread across literature, the sciences, history and vexillology, the quiz did manage to promote sustainable quizzing at the end of the day. Interesting fundae spanned from the sound dampeners next to Schipol airport to the presence of the Orient Express and hockey sticks in environmental sciences, there was much to learn about how humans have been studying mother Earth. Harambe (RIP) put in an appearance, beautiful music by Einaudi mourned our melting glaciers and places named after people ended the ...