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Hello. Nice to know that you are organising a quiz. We would just like to inform you that every last one of us is genetically pre-programmed to chase you down and tear you to bits if you ask that question about how Led Zeppelin were named. We just thought, that we should ask you to inform your loved ones and watch all the movies on your "100 movies before I die list" before you ask this question. Regards, Abhishek Nagaraj for the BCQC PS : More intolerance

Quiz was set and conducted by Keyur Munot Results: 1st : Suvajit C and Sayak Dasgupta :190 2nd: Abhishek Nagaraj and Aditya Gadre : 170 3rd: Yasho Tamaskar and Aniket Khasgiwale :125 Other finalists : Karan Chawla and Saransh Varma , Siddharth and Kaushik and one team from MIT Quiz had 6 rounds. The first round was 12 questions of IR. The next rounds were all D&P (+20 , +10). The other rounds included a 'Frame the Question ' round , Speciality round, 2 general rounds and a buzzer round. The flaws of D&P came to the forefront in this quiz with the outcome largely dependent on seating position and luck. There was a very skewed number of attempts and inspite of the top three answering about the same number of questions there was a vast difference in points. The questions were mostly good. Some were chestnuts while some were simply bad , very easy questions. The organisation was distinctly better this time as were the questions. There were no controversies as to the ...

Set and Conducted by Karan. Results: 1st: Abhishek Nagaraj and Aditya Gadre : 110 pts 2nd: Aniket Khasgiwale and Yasho Tamaskar : 70 pts 3rd: Saransh Verma and Maulik Patel : 60 pts 4th: Siddharth and Kaushik : 40 pts 5th: Yash Marathe and Vipul : 20 pts 6th: Aditya and Karan : 15 pts

Ganesh , former BC regular, reopens his blog with a post on quizzing .

Guest post by Ajay Bhat on "The Microsoft Redmond Quiz Club". Ajay is an alumnus of COEP, where he graduated along with some of us. The club also has another old BC hand - Satyen Kale, who used to drop by the BC occasionally. When : Every other week – usually on Wednesdays 6 PM. Where : Microsoft Building 50, Redmond, WA. Who : Mostly Microsoft employees (of Indian origin) and associates (vendors who work on-site here, spouses.). Non-Microsoft employees are welcome – drop me a line at ajayvb[a t]gmail{d o t}com if you are in the Seattle area and are interested in coming to our quizzes. Origins There had been idle talk more than once about having a quiz club in Microsoft Redmond - a number of people here missed the quizzing action from their college days. AID (Association for India’s Development) in Seattle organized an India quiz in August ’07, which got an overwhelming response with around 35 teams of two registering. This prompted a small number of people to start ...

Set and Conducted by Yash Marathe. Results: 1st: Aditya Gadre and Suvajit Chakraborty : 155 2nd: Abhishek Nagaraj and Maitreyi Gupta : 100 (Won on tiebreaker to come second) 3rd:Aniket Mandavgade and Abhishek Sathe: 100 4th: Nikhil Motlag and Avaneendra Bhargav (sub Yasho Tamaskar) : 70 5th : Saroj Kumar Singh and Sudeep Sengupta: 55 6th : Swanand Gadgil and Abhishek Khandelwal :20 Quiz was quite good for a debut effort. The elims were pretty bad with about 36 one liner random trivia questions and 4 good questions. The first round was conducted by some other guy (whose name I've forgotten). It was quite bad. Most questions were very boring and /or too easy. The next four rounds were conducted by Yash. These were quite good. Some questions were great, while there were quite a few chestnuts. The quiz was quite a close fight with Team B and Team E ending up tied for second place with 100 points. Team E (Abhishek and MAitreyi) eventually won the sudden death tie break to come secon...

This is college quizzing season. Which means a lot of people will be setting quizzes for their college fests. It also means that a lot of people will be setting and QMing their first quizzes. This is by far one of the most important experiences for quizzers. However, it takes experience to grasp the nuances of setting, organising and making questions for a successful quiz. It's not difficult or anything, its just that you need to fall and fail to realise what went wrong. The good thing is, a few stalwarts at the BCQC have already done some excellent writing on the issue of a) making good quiz questions and b)organising a quiz event. You can find these essays here on our website . This Quizmaster's Checklist is a must-read especially if you are organising a quiz event. (cross-posted on my personal blog )