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Quiz: WYGW - Who You Going With, the InFest General Quiz in memory of Vcat Srinivasan Date: 9th January 2022, Sunday, Day 2 of InFest 2022 Venue: Held over Zoom Format: Elims + Finals QM: Suraj "Pheno" Menon Results: 1. 210: King Kong vs Godzilla (Santhosh, Preetham, Navin) 2. 198: WIMWI Manaram (Vinoo, Srinath, Rajiv) 3. 168: Chete Chete Khabo (Manav, Alok P, Brajendu) 4. 160: RoTF (Kiran, Ravi, Manu) 5. 125: Peter Panchali (Sachin, Debanjan, Prithwish) 5. 125: Covid positive otherwise negative (Shantanu, Shashank) 7. 120: Hello Hello G (Navin Sharma, Nikhil Sonde) 7. 120: Maris Troika (Raju, Thejaswi, Ramkey) 9. 95: ZEF (Anannya "Dada" Deb, Aditya Gadre, Ingit Sir) UNESCO Best QM Suraj Menon conducted the general quiz at InFest 2022. The quiz was held in memory of Vcat (a prominent and unforgettable BCQC quizzer) who tragically passed away last year. One minute of Iron Maiden was a nice tribute to someone who was always larger than life and a minute of silence ...

           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.           This year we surpassed all records (so far) with 67 sets spread over a day and a half. With so many participants and QMs, we had a consistent audience, ready to give negatives as the Mob, as well as patiently waiting hours for their turn.            There were two winners at InFestYouUs 2022 too. At 9/10 were Nikhil Sonde (Nobel Prizes in Physics set by Sania Narulkar) and Mukilan Ayyapparaj (Akira Kurosawa set by Avaneendra Bhargav). Both showed how they knew their topics like the...