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Obligatory question: In a list of his favourite Holmes short stories, Arthur Conan Doyle had The Dancing Men at #3, and the Red-Headed League at #2. Which story, from the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, did he rate as his best? Quizzes The most recent BCQC Open Quiz Day was held in April and consisted of a Western Entertainment quiz by Aditya Gadre and a General quiz by Meghashyam Shirodkar and Aniket Khasgiwale. The previous week, Aniket had a successful outing at COEP's solo quiz Abhimanyu by becoming the first COEPian to win the title twice. A similar mark was achieved by Yash Marathe who triumphed for the 2nd year in becoming the BCQC's College Quizzer of the Year . This was also the season of high-profile business quizzing in Pune: the college version of Tata Crucible was won by the SCMHRD pair of Gaurav & Amneet, while Savoir Faire of Goa once again triumphed at the local Brand Equity round . They will participate in the finals to be held on 10th May in Mumba...

Obligatory Question: If you were wearing the 'mustard & tomato', what would you be? The first two months of 2009 were so frenetic that there was hardly any time to put a newsletter together. Here's how January and February turned out for the Boat Club Quiz Club: Quizzes The January BCQC Open Quiz Day saw two general quizzes, one by Pradeep Ramarathnam of the BQC and the other by Suvajit Chakraborty and Yash Marathe , both leading college quizzers from Pune. Local colleges VIT ( Quiz-o-Mania ), AFMC ( Shyam Bhatt Memorial Quiz ), Fergusson College ( Inquizzition 8 ), and MIT ( Axlerate ) held their annual general quizzes in these two months. AFMC also held several theme quizzes as part of their annual fest, as did Symbiosis Law, who also had a general quiz called Jigyasa (a quiz that was set and conducted by the BCQC). Clearly, this packed quizzing season saw an abundance of themed quizzes, with sports quizzes at Sinhgadh College of Engineering and COEP . But...

BCQC – December 2008 newsletter After his first Grand Slam victory, asked if he was 6"3' tall, his mother replied he was 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4. Name this Olympic champion. Happy New Year , or like some of us like to call it, Happy Great Gregorian Calendar Convention Conspiracy . A cold December saw subdued activity at the BC, but there are a couple of things to mention. Here goes. Quizzes 1. IIT Bombay's Mood Indigo (20-23 Dec) Some of the BCQC College quizzers took part in several quizzes at Mood-I 2008. Most notably, they won both the General Quiz (Aditya Gadre & Suvajit Chakraborty) as well as the Sports Quiz (Aditya Gadre again, this time with Aniket Khasgiwale). 2. BC “Requiem for a Theme” Business Quiz Suvajit conducted the Business Theme quiz as part of "Requiem for a Theme" . A tough elims and a somewhat undercooked final resulted from it. The next set of themes are likely to be on English music, History, and Geography, depending on availabilit...

Oblig Question: (1637, Original) French: "Je pense, donc je suis"; Latin: ? A round up of the last two months of BCQC quizzing. October saw several quizzes, including a BCQC Open Quizzing Day, while November was very, very quiet thanks to a lot of people having to answer more boring questions in exams and such-like. Quizzes 1. Oct 02 – Oct 04 : Mindspark Mindspark is the College of Engineering, Pune (COEP)'s annual science and technology college fest. Three quizzes, set and conducted by COEP quizzers, were held as part of this, its 2 nd edition. a. Chakravyuuh : The 9 th edition of Chakravyuuh was held on the 2 nd of Oct. This, an open general quiz, is COEP biggest quiz of the year. Read this report for results. b. Torquest : This is a Science and Technology quiz only for college students which was won by Abhishek and Raghav. A summary of results here . c. Barqing Mad! : The report of this open Entertainment quiz can be read here . 2. Oct 12 : BCQC O...

BCQC - September 2008 newsletter Oblig Question: In 1868, geologist Louis Lartet discovered 5 skeletons in a rock shelter in the Dordogne region of Central France. What was the name of these rock shelters? It was such a busy September for the BCQC, so we decided it was time we had our own newsletter ! This quizzing month was unusually busy because many of us were not only participating in quizzes, but also organising them. But largely, we had fun, and hopefully, our hapless victims will agree as well :-). This newsletter is designed to share some of the recent happenings involving the BCQC, and to give some of the BC expats a chance to catch up, and to provide everyone advance notice on what is coming next. ~~~~Quizzes we organised in September~~~~ 1. Sept 18: ACES school quiz : Once again, we were part of the ACES school quiz, now in its 4th edition. Set by the BCQC and admirably conducted by Salil, the quiz was won by St. Mary's School (Boys) in a terrific contest. All the ...