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 Set by Aditya Gadre, Aniket Khasgiwale and Yash Marathe Format : After no tournament last year on account of the pandemic, this year we decided to the take the BC Cup online. Hence the format was sligtly modified for this year.  For starters we had a 40 question elim to determine the 8 quarter finalists. The elim was specially designed to deter googling - with automatic transitions every 40 seconds and significant efforts put to ensure questions are not google-able. For the first time ever, we used guinea pigs for a BC Cup set - from the point of view of google stress testing. (On that note, many thanks to Sumant, Rajiv, Abhinav and Yasho).  The rest of the quiz was the same format - 60 question quarter to determine the top 4 for the semi finals. 40 question semi-final to determine the top 2. A 28 question final to determine the winner. The only difference was that we also shared the question in the chat window so that people could read the question (another BC cup first...

  Quiz : Sci-Qi (a Science- and Speculative Fiction Quiz) Date & Time : 26 September 2021 at 10 am Pune time / 25 September 2021 at 11:30 pm Austin time Venue : A series of tubes (a.k.a the QM's and participants various homes, connected via Zoom) QM : Mohit Karve Scores: Winner : Sumant Alone (Sumant Srivathsan) - 110 pts Runners Up : Swadeshi House Mafia (Abhimanyu Badhauria, Rishiraj S) - 82 pts 3rd: Rohirrim (Srijon Sen) - 80 pts Jt 4th:  KatsuCurry (Arpita Shetty, Siddarth Raman) - 65 pts Jt 4th: TLJ Was Good, Actually (Avaneendra Bhargav, Kunal Sawardekar) - 65 pts 6th: The H Squad (MV Harshavardhan, Harish V) - 58 pts 7th: ILAM (Akshit Mehra, Akshat Kukreja) - 45 pts 8th: The Pramans (Abhinav Dasgupta, Vivek Tejuja) - 40 pts Report: Mohit Karve is a old BCQC hand, being part of the COEP Quizzing Renaissance of 2006-2012, and is well remembered by people who were quizzing in Pune during that period (both for the excellent quizzes he set as well as for being the victi...

  Quiz: The Ajai Ragde Memorial History-Geography Quiz Date & Time: 12 September 2021 Venue: Held over Zoom Format: Elims + Finals QMs: Kunal Sawardekar and Omkar Dhakephalkar Results: 1 st : WIMWI Manaram: Rajiv Rai, Srinath B, Vinoo S at 274 2 nd : Vetes Vulpes: Tathagata Chatterjee, Archana Gupta, Ninad Sapute at 21 3 rd : ROTF: Navin, Swami, Manu at 204 4 th : Trevlling Kilroy: Anurakshat Gupta, Anirudh Anilkumar, Arnabh Sengupta at 201 5 th : Aila Jumbo: Ravi Mundoli, Ashwin Kumar, Samanth 6 th : Hammer and Tongs: Shouvik Guha, Anannya Deb, Jayashree Jayakar Mohanka at 182 7 th : QuizElite: Abhinav Dixit, Sushmita Sharma, Adarsh Dixit at 97 8 th : Three’s Company: Keshav, Ajay, Debashree at 58 A History Geography Quiz is an apt way to pay tribute to an esteemed member of the community and Mr Ajai Ragde was definitely one. I remember quizzing with him in BCQC Opens and by virtue of the draft system used in the finals, has couple of times even teamed up wit...

  Quiz: Let There Be Rock, the BCQC Rock Music Date & Time: 8 August 2021, 10 am Venue: Held over Zoom Format: Written Quiz | 40 Qs worth 50 points QMs: Aditya Gadre & Navin Rajaram In 1977, AC/DC proclaimed ‘Let There Be Rock’. Cut to 44 years later in pandemic times, our QMs thought it was best to follow the sermon and rock it out at 10 in the morning on a Sunday. Yes, please! Hundred-and-twenty individuals also seemed to be in agreement, as we saw incredible participation of 60 teams. Thank you, everyone! A written quiz ensures all teams get to have a crack at every question, with no one going home (err, yeah) feeling left out and suffering the wrath of a prelims. And, what better than hearing good music all the way through! And, it’s here where the best bit about the quiz was - the focus was on music listening. The quiz had a high number of audio and videos, as any good music quiz should be. Given this stress on multimedia, the quiz was also conducted...

Quiz : In August Company (General Quiz)  Date & Time : 8 August 2021 at 1:30 pm Venue : Zoom QM : Anannya Deb  Scores: 1st: Two Proctors and a Doctor (Dr. Navin Jayakumar, Abhinav Dasgupta, Avinash Mudaliar) - 170 pts 2nd: Peter Panchali Parajito (Debanjan Bose, Sachin Deshpande, Sourjo Sengupta) - 140 pts 3rd: Dream team (Arnabh Sengupta, Anirudh Anilkumar, Shaayak Chatterjee) - 133 pts 4th: Rana Protip (Venky Srinivasan, Kunal Sawardekar, Ranajeet Soman) - 127 pts 5th: East Bengal United (Shouvik Guha, Prithwish Datta, Deepanjan Deb) - 123 pts 6th: Narulkar, Nerulkar, Punekar (Sania Narulkar, Samrat Sengupta, Aditya Gadre) - 120 pts 7th: Remembrance of Things Fast (Navin Rajaram, Manu Sudhakar, Swaminathan Ganesh) - 107 pts 8th: Huey Dewey Louie (Akash Gupta, Arun TP, Zaman Khan) - 103 pts 9th: No Name (Krishnamurthy Ganesh, Rajagopal PS, Ajay Parasuraman) - 83 pts  10th: Maris Troika (Thejasvi Udupa, Santosh Swaminathan, Ramkey V) - 72 pts  Report: Anannya Deb...