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Slot: Sunday, 6-1-2019, Evening. Quiz: The Undecided Quiz Flavour: Gen QM(s): Pranav ‘Floyd’ Joshi, Charles Matthew Format: Teams of 2. Written elims, followed by finals with draft. Winners: 1. Aditya Gadre and Arnold D’Souza   + Ankita (Draft): 250 points 2. Kunal Sawardekar and Divij Ghose + Vrushabh Gudade and Prajot Patne (Drafts): 125 points 3. Ajai Ragde and Sandeep Shankar + Vencat Srinivasan (Draft): 110 points The Undecided Review (This review was hurriedly written minutes before the deadline set by Comrade Dhakephalkar, in homage to the quiz being reviewed here.) “A quiz only works out if one of the two setters is that annoying guy who keeps pushing the other one to set questions and get the work done. Neither of us (Floyd and Charles) is that person.” : Pranav “Floyd” Joshi, kinda The surprise, then, is that it actually turned out to be a decent (and more importantly, complete) quiz. The prelims were quite enjoyable: a mixture of well f...

Slot: Sunday, 6-1-2019, Afternoon. Quiz: The Italia Quiz Flavour: Italian QM(s): Omkar Yarguddi and Avaneendra Bhargav Format: Teams of 2. Written. Winners: 1. Kunal Sawardekar and Divij Ghose: 21 points 2. Aditya Gadre and Arnold D’Souza: 20 points 3. Ajai Ragde and Sandeep Shankar: 17 points They went. They came back. They set this quiz. Avaneendra and Omkar returning from their Italy tour put together this 30 question set. From ancient cities to renaissance art to modern carmakers – the set had a well-balanced mix of Italian culture questions and Italy in pop-culture questions. Except for the question where the answer to a previous question was mentioned in it, the questions were very well framed. The quiz was a nice post-lunch refresher between two full quizzes. Report by : Pranav Pawar QM with half the winning team.

Akela, A Kela - The Solo Quiz  Set and conducted by Omkar Dhakephalkar Format: Written elims followed by a very complicated finals for top 8 (details below) Results: 1st: Kunal Sawardekar 2nd: Aditya Gadre 3rd: Samrat Sengupta 4th: Pranav Pawar Other finalists: Sandeep Shankar, Omkar Joshi, Arnold D'Souza and Gokul Panigrahi Report:  Omkar set this year's edition as the reigning Solo quiz champ from 2018. The quiz started with a nice elims set (a bit on the tougher side) which did a good job of separating the top 8 from the rest. The quiz saw a huge turnout - almost packed room with several benches needing to be double loaded. In the finals, Omkar unleashed a super fun, crazy format for the quiz. There would be a series of written "BLED" rounds featuring questions on Businessmen, Lawyers, Engineers and Doctors (or as Omkar put it "the only four meaningful professions in the world"). Each correct answer in these rounds would earn you a card w...

Slot: Sunday, 6-1-2019, Morning. Quiz: The Military Quiz, Mk. 1 Flavour: Military QM: Kunal Sawardekar Format: Teams of 2. Written elims, followed by finals with draft. Winners: 1. Col. Sandeep Shankar, Ajai Ragde + Gokul Panigrahi (Draft) 2. Mihir and Shrirang Raddi + Col. Anand Karve (Draft) 3. Divij Ghose (Solo) + Prajot, Saqib and Samarth (Drafts) Due to it being a Sunday Morning quiz, the attendance was low, but as the day warmed up, quizzers trickled in till quorum was fulfilled. The quizmaster for this eagerly awaited quiz was Kunal Sawardekar, the Military Gawd of Pune. We had about 10 teams by the time the quiz started. What was great was we had specific attendance thanks to the topic chosen. Otherwise-non-quizzers turned up with their big guns, ready to prosecute the quiz to victory. There were 24 questions in the elims, with the last 4 having two answers each, so two-pointers. From the start there was a clear gap between the top teams (15+) and t...