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  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...