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The Quiz lived up to its moniker of the "Big Fat Quiz of the Year", with 90+ questions!! Like Gadre says "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition", with the Elims having a torturous end for many contenders, 5-6 very good quizzers missed out by a point or less.  The quiz was peacefully conducted with no "dhangadhinga" due to the presence of an intimidating QM!! The first answer "Lone Wolf and Cub" was a nice tribute to the format, with a subtle hint by the QM.  There were several such brilliantly worded questions in the elims encompassing a wide range, workoutable but with a twist, leading to lots of oohs and ahhs at the end.  The Ten finalists were as follows. Representing the Pune Vanguard: Omkar D, Ranajeet Soman; The Pune Old Guard: Samrat Sengupta, J Ramanand; Bombay Satraps: Rajiv Rai, Prithwish Dutta, Abhinav Dasgupta; Young Turks from South of Deccan: Abid A, Shashwat S and  Lone Wolf from Big Apple: Sriram P The quiz started out with some ...

Quiz: The MELA Quiz Date & Time: 21 Jan, 2024, 10:30 AM Venue: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Pune Fest: InFest 2024 Format: Elims+Final QM(s): Ranajeet Soman Results: 1. Prithwish Datta, Abhinav Dasgupta + Brajendu Bhaskar (draft): 129 (Team 1) 2. Vibhendu Tewari, Rajiv Rai + Omkar Dhakephalkar (draft): 123 (Team 3) Other Finalists: Debanjan Bose, Bedbyas Datta + Annanya “Dada” Deb (draft): 113 (Team 6) Suraj Menon and Aditya Gadre: 110 (Team 4) Annway Ghosh, Suvajit Chakraborty + Pranav Pawar (draft): 58 (Team 5) Abed, Shashwat + Shubhankar Gokhale (draft): 40 (Team 2) The second day of InFest 2024 began with the MELA quiz set by Ranajeet Soman. All the quizzes on the second day were team quizzes, and hence so was this. The quiz began with a commendable delay of only thirty minutes as participants trooped in on a Sunday morning after Saturday night shenanigans. But it was a balmy winter morning in Pune, the city ideal for morning quizzes and everybody ...

InFestYouUs, the flagship event of the annual BCQC quiz fest, 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 had 28 sets and a new venue   –  Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Pune . InFestYouUs 2024 also featured several debutants from colleges around Pune and Open quizzers from other states. This year’s winners were Annway Ghosh and Arnold D’Souza, both scored 9 straight with the Mob not answering anything. Annway’s topic was History of the Electric Guitar, set by Thejaswi Udupa and Arnold’s was The Wars of the Roses, set by Kunal Sawardekar. Once again debutants showed their mettle at InFestYouUs in Annway’s performance. Arnold’s mastery of his topic was well-appreciated. In second place is the u...