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Slot: Sunday, 21-1-2018, Morning Quiz: The Maazical Mystery Tour Flavour: Music QM: Aditya Gadre and Debanjan Bose Format: Written elims to decide 6 main teams and draft picks. Elims scores 3 carry over to finals. Seamless Infinite Re-pounce in finals. Aditya Gadre and Debanjan Bose set an excellent, accessible and nicely distributed quiz to open Day 2 of InFest 2018. While the start of the quiz was delayed to accommodate quizzers recovering from the previous day's festivities, only 10 teams made it to the start of the quiz. A mysterious errand that came up for Shubhankar Gokhale after the elims meant that all remaining 19 quizzers were able to make it to the finals, with only one 4-member team. In recognition of the fact that (nearly) all teams that wrote the elims made it to the final, all six directly qualifying teams had their elims score (multiplied by 3) carry over to the finals. There was quite a nice mix of musical styles, periods and personalities...

The Supplies Quiz  Set by UNESCO Best QM Suraj Menon and Pranav 'Floyd' Joshi  Format: Written elims followed by a team final in a University Challenge format Results:  1st: Aditya Gadre, Aniket Khasgiwale and Shubhankar Gokhale Jt 2nd: Kunal Sawardekar, Omkar Dhakephalkar and Ranajeet Soman Jt 2nd: Anannya Deb, Anand Sivashankar and Pranav Pawar Other finalists: Vibhendu Tewari, Maitreyi Gupta and Safal Mohammad Shrirang Raddi, Arnold D'Souza and Sandeep Shankar Abhinav Dasgupta, Nadeem Ansari, Saahil Singh and Shashwat Salgaoncar For starters, let me clarify that the quiz was not about drugs or inventory management - but a surprise to all who took part. The quiz started with a 25 question elim. At the time of writing the elims - no one knew what the format of the quiz was - but we started getting an idea when every single elims question had the name of a university in it. It also nicely ended with a quesion on University Challenge which also was the t...

The Revolutionary Quiz  Set by Omkar Dhakephalkar and Pranav Pawar Format: Written Results:  1st: Ranajeet Soman and Kunal Sawardekar - 24 points 2nd: Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgiwale - 17 points 3rd: Anannya Deb and Anand Sivashankar - 10.5 points Dhake and PP - aka Molotov and Ribbentrop for the purposes of this quiz - put up an entertaining set with a Revolutionary theme. There were several rounds for the written quiz - which were both quirky and interesting. I particularly liked the concept of "Torture" on the double questions which could lead to more information worth a point or a penalty of 1 point for human rights abuses! The questions themselves were fun and interesting - a tough ask for a quiz with this kind of a serious topic. I also liked how the QMs mixed things up with scoring and topics (including very liberal interpretations of Revolution). Perhaps in hindsight the quiz was a bit too tough and low scoring - but I feel the post lunch nature of the...

Slot: Saturday, 20-1-2018, Evening. Quiz: Single Personality Disorder Flavour: General QM: Kunal Sawardekar Format: Lone wolf. Written elims, followed by 12 member finals with the lowest 6 dropping out after 30 questions. Kunal had promised a quirky set for the solo quiz on Saturday afternoon and the quiz lived up to its billing. The elims had a cut-off of 9.5 with most of the usual suspects qualifying apart from a couple of minor upsets as Prithwish Datta and Aniket Khasgiwale didn't make the finals. The finals started with a couple of tough questions and it took a while for some of the contestants to get on the scoreboard. Considering that this was a general quiz, the distribution of topics could have been better. The quiz was heavy on topics of the QM's interest - history, geography, military and also had a more western focus. However, as expected there were very good fundae throughout the quiz which made it quite interesting for the participants as w...

InFestYouUs, the flagship event of the annual InFest, is a Mastermind-style quiz in which participants choose a specialized topic on which they are asked ten questions. They play against everyone else, who collectively form the 'Mob'. The participant gets +1 per correct answer, and -0.5 for every answer they pass/get incorrect and the Mob answers correctly.  With an attendance of over 30 attendees, we had a strong mob to challenge and answer in case the participant could not. The venue was a classroom in the Academic Complex at the College of Engineering, Pune, next to the COEP Boat Club. The winner of InFestYouUs 2018 with a score of 10 on 10 was 11 year-old Mihir Raddi. His topic was 'Aircrafts of the Battle of Britain'. Set by Meghashyam Shirodkar, this young quizzer had come fully prepared. The questions were also framed just for him and this resulted in the youngest winner of InfestYousUs also being the first one to score a full 10. Saahil Sharma wh...